Strange things found on (or in) a pt.

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I've always wondered, especially after hearing about this guy who brought a snake into the ER----what is the strangest thing you've ever found on (or in) a patient?

Specializes in Emergency/Trauma/Critical Care Nursing.
While working for an ob/gyn, the md pulled a contact lens case out of a pt's lady parts. What was she thinking?

how the heck did he even see it?? i can't even see mine when im trying to put them in! that doc has good vision!

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Specializes in ER/ICU/Flight.

a friend of mine just took his family camping this past summer and his daughter had a tick attach itself to the posterior aspect of her eyeball. It was the weirdest thing as she kept complaining that her eye "itched and wouldn't blink right" she's 7 years old.

In any event, the doctors got all the specialists in there, photographed it extensively and then removed it. I imagine it will end up in a textbook sometime.

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Specializes in NICU.
a friend of mine just took his family camping this past summer and his daughter had a tick attach itself to the posterior aspect of her eyeball. It was the weirdest thing as she kept complaining that her eye "itched and wouldn't blink right" she's 7 years old.

In any event, the doctors got all the specialists in there, photographed it extensively and then removed it. I imagine it will end up in a textbook sometime.

AAAAHHHHHHHH!!!! Way to combine my two squickiest issues: eyeballs and parasites.

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a friend of mine just took his family camping this past summer and his daughter had a tick attach itself to the posterior aspect of her eyeball. It was the weirdest thing as she kept complaining that her eye "itched and wouldn't blink right" she's 7 years old.

In any event, the doctors got all the specialists in there, photographed it extensively and then removed it. I imagine it will end up in a textbook sometime.

Did it crawl into her eye socket and lodge behind the eyeball? How did it get in there if that's the case?

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Specializes in Emergency Dept, ICU.

This thread has definately made me nauseated, and that doesn't happen much anymore.

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Cell phone stuck in a lady parts. No kidding. Put there on purpose. Needless to say it was on vibrate. OH MY!

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Oh yeah...can't forget about the 75yo man that came in with a zucchini in his rectum. Ended up going to surgery because he perforated his bowel with it. He refused surgery at first, but when the ER doc told him that he would most certainly die a miserable death due to the infection that will inevitably spread through his body from the stool that is currently spilling into his abdominal cavity and who knows where else! Sometimes, this particular doc is blunt to a fault...in this situation, it worked. Pt agreed to have sx and left hospital ok. Well, physically anyway.....

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Specializes in ER, IICU, PCU, PACU, EMS.
Cell phone stuck in a lady parts. No kidding. Put there on purpose. Needless to say it was on vibrate. OH MY!

Maybe she didn't want to carry a purse! :eek:

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5 yr old female had a bright yellow crayon inside her lady parts that her 3 year old sister put there.....apparently they play doctor....

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5 yr old female had a bright yellow crayon inside her lady parts that her 3 year old sister put there.....apparently they play doctor....

Was CPS called? I couldn't imagine kids that age doing something like that unless someone showed them how.

:(

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Specializes in NICU.
Was CPS called? I couldn't imagine kids that age doing something like that unless someone showed them how.

:(

Yeah, I know kids get up to stuff, but that's a bit... not okay.

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No CPS was not called and the EMD and nurse who took care of them at first thought it was a red flag until the assessment was done. What I heard after....the girls play doctor all the time.

I myself thought it was fishy

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