"foreign" objects?

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I'm not a nurse so you guys tell me, I've heard rumors for years, and from actual nurses about people coming into the ED with things stuck in their various private orifices that they can't get out. Is there any truth to this? Just my morbid curiousity.

Man, the only thing I can say is...people have ISSUES.

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I have to add my 2 cents.

The mother of a family friend worked in the local ER where a young lady came in with a fish "up there". I guess her (or her boyfriend) must REALLY like fish. EWWWWW!!

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I've heard some strange stories over the years too.

What I don't quite get is the 'golden oldies' who are not 'with it'- many of them seem to be so fixated on their private parts. What's up with that?

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Specializes in Med-Surg, Long Term Care.

If you want even more stories along theses lines, a great thread addressing this topic here more than a year ago was entitled, "You've got a what up/in your what???"

https://allnurses.com/forums/showthread.php?s=&threadid=14835&highlight=what+up%2Fin

I never understood the gerbil thing either and believe it's an urban legend. Wouldn't they suffocate immediately? (Go to http://www.snopes.com/ and type in "gerbil" in the search and you can read about how this all got started.)

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Specializes in LTC, assisted living, med-surg, psych.

One unfortunate young fellow came to our ER recently with a screwdriver in a place where screwdrivers were never meant to go. Said at first that his girlfriend had put it up there, then sheepishly admitted he'd done it himself. He actually perf'ed the lower bowel and ended up with a colostomy, then developed an infection which landed him in ICU for a few days. (I heard the screwdriver was a little rusty.........) And all the time he was in the hospital, not one family member came to see him, nor did the alleged girlfriend. We all felt sorry for him in a way......how undignified the whole experience must have been for him......and yet we had a hard time keeping a straight face!

Then yesterday one of our surgeons was talking about the purple 12-inch, uh, "device" that he'd removed from the rectum of a male patient that morning.....:eek:

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I always felt sorry for the gerbil, hamster, guinea pig or goldfish stuffed up the rectum...what a way to die!

Not urban legend, just sick humans. Oh yeah, flashlights too.

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I'm so glad to see that there will be a lot of laughter to balance out the tears and "things that make you go Eeewwww!"

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Originally posted by 3rdShiftGuy

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.

Lucky for him the bottle didn't come open or he's really have had a hot time, eh? :chuckle

Oh..and I was an ER nurse in the 80's and there was indeed a gerbil fetish going on then...I can testify to it. Adults do some verrry strange things with their orifices down below...and kids stick strange things in ALL orifices...:chuckle

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Originally posted by RN from OZ

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.

This reminded me of a local story in Tampa Florida, near where I live...a man was in a hotel swimming pool and got his penie stuck in the pool jets....he was yelling for help after a couple hours of struggling to free himself from the mighty suction of the pool pump. (He obviously was trying to hump the pool)..She had to call 911. All the local TV stations, news papers, and radio stations had a field day with this story...the radio stations replayed the 911 call over and over, you could hear the hotel employee was trying so hard not to laugh when she was reporting this guys ordeal. ...poor guy must have been soooo embarassed when all the police cars, fire trucks, ambulances, and hotel guests descended upon him...so the moral of this thread is you should never put your penie in places it ought not go...duh:stone

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I work LTC, and our residents take beach trips. Needless to say one came home from the trip with a sea shell in her uh......

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A man came into ER and said he had a bowel obstruction and that is all he was saying. Staff waited impatiently for the x-rays and everyone crowded around to see the.....old spice bottle.

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Ummm...check out this webpage only if you dare! Somebody told my husband to go to it a while back and he told me. Anyways, it is actual X-rays of this kind of thing. It is really gross and you have to wonder...."How did they manage that"....but at the same time you really do not want to know....

http://www.well.com/www/cynsa/newbutt.html

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