Oddest things found in a patient!

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So it was kinda a wacky fun day at the med surge area yesterday...and there was this article in our newspaper about a man who put in like 12 long nails by nail gun in his head...then later on (like weeks) came into an ER with complaints of constant head ache. Go figure that ER got a great x-ray! LOL!

So we were talking to the docs around the nurses desk and they were being kinda silly and brining up the oddest things they have seen in patients...and it was amazing and funny!!!!!

One doc said during his ER rotation a man was very drunk and his buddies bet he couldn't put a big old Japanese Glass float (the green glass orbs you can find at the beach) up his rectum. Now this wasn't the small ones..this was one that was three times that size...a little smaller than a bowling ball! Guess it took him 4 hours and he did it! Well...okay now how does one remove that once it is stuck in the pelvis??? UHGGGGGG.

SO it took a team of 5 docs to think about it...and it was decided after many different ideas...the float must be broken up and removed very carefully. It was done with little damage to the area! Good job docs!

Then that same doc asked us nurses "what is the most popular item found up a rectum"...we guessed some items and we were all wrong...He told us it was shot glasses!?!?!? He said that even this hospital has a protocol for the removal! OMGosh!!!! Guess they use plaster to fill the glass, insert a long probe into the plaster..wait for it to solidify..and lube, patience, and lots of pain meds it can be pulled out!

Another doc talked about a man who ate poker chips and was all filled up and blocked, and was wondering why he had such bad constipation! That was a good surgery there!

What interesting items have you heard of...and how did they remove them?????? LOL!

I remember a rumor years ago about Richard Gere sticking a hamster into his rectum. I guess that rumor died out along with the hamster.

The story I heard involved a gerbil, and he insists it isn't true.

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Specializes in CTICU, Interventional Cardiology, CCU.
About 10 years ago, a patient came into the ER of the hospital I worked at in rural northern Michigan with a jar of Wyler's chicken boullion cubes in his rectum - the surgeon on call was able to get it out in the ER - the guy's story was that he picked up some lady in a bar, they went home and were fooling around - he claimed that she asked him if he was into rough sex and then he passed out - he presented to the ER the next day complaining of rectal pain.........

WOW...OK of all things a wylers chicken bullion cube jar,, what it just hapened to be at the bedside??? I don't think I can ever make chicken soup agian w/o thinking of this...or anything containing wylers chicken bullion cubes...mental scar....:bugeyes:

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Specializes in CTICU, Interventional Cardiology, CCU.

Not Richard Gere, but Gerry Penacoli rumor, which is false, that he had a gerbil shoved up his stinky hole.

Anyway, I have one about me. I was in 9th grade, it was 1994, and I decided to get arcrylic nails for my freshman formal. So about 2 weeks after the formal, i was sick of the color of the fake nails and I pained the nails with chanel's vamp polish, (which was the fad at the time), it was a black-red color. So i was at home and the fake nalis started loosening. and me being a nail biter, tried to bite them off, but subconsciously knowing they were fake nails. So I chipped one as I was biting, and it got lodged up under my gums above my front teeth.

I went into the bathroom and tried like heck to get it out, but it made it worse. So when I would smile I had this black red, thing in my gums. After 2 hours of trying to get this piece of acrylic nail out of my gums, I told me mom, and said " LOOK SEE IT" with my teeth in her face. My mom, trying her hardest not to laugh said call the dentist. I said,"NO", but I did anyway. Yea this is what I said to the receptionist on the phone,"I decided to get fake nails for my freshman formal, painted them red-black a few days ago, and well they started comming off, so I tried to bite them off, and well, I have this big chuck of fake nail stuck in my gums and can't get it out", she was silent on the other end of the phone. She said come in today.

I have known my dentist since I was 7 y.o., his daughter and I went to grade school together, so he KNEW ME WELL.

I walk in the office, the receptionist says ,"Can I see it?", I show her she is laughing. The dental hygentist takes me back to the chair, She says, "ok Dr.******* will be right in."

I am sitting there, and he walks in, says, "Angie what have we got here?" I show him. He says "I will be right back".

He comes back with THE ENTIRE OFFICE STAFF, to see the 2 second extraction of this fake acrylic nail stuck in my gums. He says, "Ang, what have we learned from this?", I said "not to get fake nails, paint them red-black, and try to bite them off and make an a** of my self".

To this day, 13 years after the whole debacle, when ever I go to him, he shows me my chart, where he saved the piece of arcrylic nail.

We have a good laugh about it. All I can say is that I NEVER got fake nails agian.

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Specializes in ICU, Telemetry.

We had a "gerbil" incident several years ago. Guy comes in complaining of pain, nurse gets him naked and starts doing a visual assessment, and can't help but notice the little gerbil nose peeking and twitching out of the guy's orifice...unfortunately, she was a brand new nurse, been off orientationg about 2 days, and let out a scream you could hear clear to radiology and runs from the exam room -- nobody knew she had a complete rat phobia. I don't think she came back to work.

Anyway, a short OR trip later, the guy's much better, and the radiologiest took the traumatized gerbil home to his kids.

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Specializes in ER, ICU, Education.

Ban roll on bottle in the rectum of a 20 something male.

How'd like to explain that one to mom and dad?

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We had a "gerbil" incident several years ago..

I always hoped the gerbil/hamster thing was a horrible, horrible rumor. :barf02: There goes another shred of my innocence!

During my last clinical rotation, a young adult pt came in complaining of hearing loss and a horrible earache that had lasted 2 or so days. The MD ended up having to dig raw, rotten ground beef out of the pt's ear.

Many interesting theories were developed as to how it got there...

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Specializes in ER, ICU, Education.

Oh just thought of one other .... 20 something yo retarded male

who put several screws up his urethra.

Ouch!

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Specializes in ICU, Telemetry.

Oddest thing found in a patient?

Common sense.

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How about one baby and two placentas of equal size, joined by a few blood vessels? :eek:

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We had a man show up in the ER here with an Idaho potato (rather large one) and then followed by a Kroger jelly jar! Of course he did have a little taste and chose the grape flavor! hehe The x-rays were phenomenal and the pt had to have them surgically removed.

There are pictures of an incident very much like this one on rotten.com. This site is GRAPHIC. Be forewarned. :)

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Specializes in psych, addictions, hospice, education.

...a gerbil...

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Specializes in Neuroscience/Neuro-surgery/Med-Surgical/.

Male patient claiming that he swallowed the toothbrush whole.....and it ended up stuck in his rectum.

yep...sure....

he ended up getting a hemi-colectomy!

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