rdowdy0529

I came across something really strange at work a couple of night's ago. I work in a long term care facility with elderly patients. This post pertains to one of my patients. So, this patient randomly started vomiting and spiked a high fever. She was very lethargic. A KUB, chest x-ray, blood work and UA with CS was ordered. She is a foley patient. When I went to obtain the UA, I noticed that she had had 0 output for my entire shift, so I knew something was wrong. I decided to take the catheter out and put a new one in, when I removed the catheter blood, puss, and urine immediately poured out. It was EXTREMELY foul smelling. I put the new catheter in, and this mixture flowed freely into the bag. The next night, the bag was filled with what looked like long worms. I put one in a specimen cup in water. The doctor said it was probably just blood clots. Well, tonight I got that cup with the "worm" in it out to look at it again, and the blood had washed away. It's definitely some sort of worm. Has anyone ever heard of this happening? Everything I've read said this is something that happens in 3rd world countries with contaminated drinking water? I'm just curious. I've asked around to my other nursing friends and no one has seen this before.