"foreign" objects?

tonchitoRN · Sep 12, 2003

had a patient who was told that that a platano (HUGE type of banana found in hispanic countries) in the butt would help his protate problem. i guess he was embarrassed to go to the er when it would not come out so he waited some days. he did require surgery to have it removed. i saw the pix of the surgery in his chart.

also had a guy who put a ring around his member to help keep an erection. he got the erection but it swelled so much he could not remove the ring and the erection would not go down. every guy in the hospital was trying to help the md taking care of the patient. they were trying to find some kind of cutters to get the darn thing off.

RN from OZ · Sep 12, 2003

Oh yeah !

We had a guy with a vaccum cleaner attached to the end of his member ! it had swelled up so much that he could not get it off !

He was in a big hurry to get it off so his girlfriend would not know about it. the Dr said " Son when she gets a look at that huge blood blister she's going to notice !"

They had to sawoff the vac, and put in a penrose drain for the haematoma.

As a student in the colo rectal ward I saw all manner of things but the one that stuck in my mind was the glass milk bottle 600ml laying on Xray in the transverse colon....base first ! that guy ended up with a colostomy.

Marie_LPN, RN, LPN, RN · Sep 12, 2003

Originally posted by DARN MOM 128
this is true, 2 weeks ago I took care of a pt that had a comb, toothbrush and a small tube of toothpaste in an orfice that should not have these things in it. The comb came out naturally in the ED and she was complaining of pain to that area. When I asked her about her pain she yelled "I just sh*t out a comb, of course I'm in pain!" I couldn't help asking, "Didn't it hurt when you stuck the comb up there?" She said it did and I told her that she shpould of expected pain when it came out. They sent her to the OR, put her under and when all muscles and sphincters were relaxed were able to get the other stuff out. The most surprising part was when I had to check the rectal area for bleeding she freaked out cuz she thought that I was going to do something to her bottom that would hurt! I think she did a good rnough job on her own! There is also a story about a table leg that I witnessed in the ED but that can wait till another time. People never cease to amaze me!

Um this person needs to be told about bathroom sink, it's a great place to store such items

angelac1978 · Sep 12, 2003

Originally posted by RN from OZ
As a student in the colo rectal ward I saw all manner of things but the one that stuck in my mind was the glass milk bottle 600ml laying on Xray in the transverse colon....base first ! that guy ended up with a colostomy.

How in the world did the milk bottle get to his transverse colon??? I really don't think I want to know.

I haven't started radiology clinicals but looking in my books at the trauma radiology, there was a pt who had somehow swallowed a metal dinner knife and it was lodged at the end of the stomach near the duodenum. Now how in the world do you swallow a knife???

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Hellllllo Nurse, BSN, RN · Sep 12, 2003

I wonder why these people don't just buy things that are specifically made for insertion into "that" area.

I would think that they wouldn't get themselves into such awful situations that way.

Marie_LPN, RN, LPN, RN · Sep 12, 2003

Heck even the things that are designed to go there (the mere thought EYEEEW) get stuck. We average about 5 joytoy removals a month in our ER.

Tweety, BSN, RN · Sep 12, 2003

A hot sauce bottle in the rectum of a male. He claimed some guys jumped him and did it, but he showed no outward signs of a struggle.

Tweety, BSN, RN · Sep 12, 2003

Originally posted by luv2quilt:)
HI: I am a student nurse. My sister worked at a hospital as a biomed tech (and I won't say where) and told me a story about gerbils:lol2: this thread could be real interesting.

There's an old myth that people were putting live gerbils up their rectum with a string tied to them, with the idea the moving gerbil woudl be stimulating.

I'm fairly sure this is an urban myth. I hope.

gwenith, BSN, RN · Sep 12, 2003

It is an urban myth Tweety. It has been debunked more times than you can count. I know of a young couple who were brought in ummm "stuck" ummm well they were both on the same stretcher. She had lady partsl spasms ( I can't remember the name for the clinical position ugh! clinical condition I meant clinical condition!!)

The problem is easily solved by administering Diazepam to her. As if being caught in "THAT" situation was not enough - the young man in question was the son of a local bigwig:imbar:

renerian, BSN, RN · Sep 12, 2003

I am laughing very hard for this early in the morning..........

renerian

Marie_LPN, RN, LPN, RN · Sep 12, 2003

We had a gerbil case. Only one. And it had been there for 2 days.

My first thought was CLAWS. Second thought was GERMS. Later thought was "what the hell posesses someone to put a rodent up their *ss"

colleen10 · Sep 12, 2003

I have a friend who was a radiology tech.

Her hospital was located near a "Home for Boys/Adjudicated Youth". She said she has some pretty interesting cases walk through the door.

The one that made her cringe though was a 15 year old boy they brought in who had placed a pencil up his urethra. The doc's eventually did get it out without much harm to him. But then a few months later the same kid came again. It seems the instructors at the school took away anything long, cylindrical from the boy so that he could not place it up his urethra again. So, he took to taking off some of the tiney metal screws from the frame of his bed and putting them up there. :eek:

My friend is not male but she said the thought of it still made her hurt.