Strange things found on (or in) a pt.

Diary/Dairy, RN · May 19, 2008

What I'v always thought of is how ridiculous we sound asking the potato history as if it were a medical "condition" "What were you doing when you first noticed the potato like feeling in your rectum?".... I don't ask. There is only one way for the ...... to get there and that is just TMI for a nursing history.

OMG - that is the funniest thing I have heard in a LONG time!!! Thanks for the laugh! :lol2:

Maverick80 · May 19, 2008

OMFG , was it at least a 'baby' eggplant??

Haha, nope a full size one!! I will never forget seeing the x-ray of the abdomen, it was soo big!!!

BlueRidgeHomeRN · May 19, 2008

haha, nope a full size one!! i will never forget seeing the x-ray of the abdomen, it was soo big!!!

ouch!!! :scrying:

what are these folks thinking!!!

squeakykitty · May 19, 2008

I saw this one on "Untold stories of the ER" on the Discovery Health channel. A guy came in with a tree branch imbedded in his motorcyle helmet, and it was in his neck. He had fallen off his bike and hit some bushes. He then rode his motorcycle to the ER, with the branch sticking out of his helmet. He told the staff that "luckily, the bushes broke my fall". :eek: I guess he didn't know quite how bad he looked. After the branch removal, he was stitched up, and rode his motorcycle home.

sophie_bob_kids · May 20, 2008

My sister had to do a tour through the morgue w/ her class where they encountered a man who set a golf club on top of a GLASS coffee table, and then sat on top of it... of course the table couldn't hold his weight and broke beneath him. It pierced through his rectum and intestine, but he was too embarrased to go to the ER, so they found him dead from bleeding out.... Yikes!!

lpnstudentin2010, LPN · May 21, 2008

little old lady admitted to the icu for r/o mi. her husband brought her in. when the dinner trays came, i asked her if her husband had brought her teeth along. "oh, no, honey," she said. "they're right here." and whipped up her gown and extracted the teeth from her nether regions and popped them into her mouth. yuk!

i've also seen artificial eyes stored in the same spot.

re the artificial eye....i would never dream of putting mine down there.

lpnstudentin2010, LPN · May 21, 2008

Ok Ive also had this 400+ lb. woman come in with a yeast infection, Yeah I know not strange yet but Im not done, anyway I take her back to the gyn room and I get a female nurse, me, and then the docs came in a med student, intern, and resident, oh great we have a show goin wonderful, I only requested the intern and I get all 3, well I and carla my best friend we set up for them, well anyways what we see is amazing, she came in complaining of discharge, well it just so happens we see this large brown like plant growing thing and we think tumor, well anyways she tells us its a sweet potato and her mother told her to put it there because its supposed to stop the drippage lol, and well we pull it out and there is some discharge or shall I say drippage lol, anyway our residents and attendings have got this habit going on us nurses are trying to break, yes they will actually stick there nose right up to any pus or drainage to see if it smells infectious which is gross if you ask me, well our great resident tells our lovely student to do this, hold it lol, anyways he goes to do this particular sniff test when its like a god send she goes into a full gran mal seizure and her legs lock around his head, now all of us are laughing so hard we cant help him I and carla are on the floor rolling, the intern over by the sink laughing his guts out and the resident trying but laughing to hard to do anything, to pull these massive legs apart, well and Im thinking oh god Im supervisor what am I going to tell this poor kids parents, "Oh Im sorry but your son died while examining a patient you see he stuck his nose in her cooch because of a lady partsl infection and she had a seizure and suffocated him with her legs, anyway I finally got some ativan in her and her legs pried off his head. lol, hes alright except that carla and me still laugh everytime we see him now, hes an attending.

he will never live that down

lpnstudentin2010, LPN · May 21, 2008

I will tell on my self. When I was about 10 (I was a very stupid child) I shoved chewed paper in my ear. Had a very bad ear ache...mom thought it was an infection, took me to the doc on call doc had to remove it....THAT HURT BAD to have that removed. I was balling.

iluvivt, BSN, RN · May 21, 2008

1 Male ER pt came in with vacuum hose attached to his member... EMT didnt even detach it from the vac. That....... I thought was the funny part

2 true story. My friend was working ER trauma. A male pt came in with a Mrs buttersworth syrup bottle shoved up his rectum. Since then I have been unable to purchase this brand

3, Took care of a male pt with extensive rectal damage. Apparently he had a round nobbed bed post that he would sit on and swing around ...get the idea

Akkasha · May 21, 2008

True story, and almost the weirdest thing in 17 years of nursing I've seen--ICU patient with a tracheostomy, flings himself off bed to floor and I find him lying on the floor on his back with a metal chair leg inserted in his trach. I almost had the urge to call someone else to come look at him before I decided to remove the chair leg from his airway....

We never did figure out if he was trying to kill himself or clear out the stoma.

rph3664 · May 21, 2008

2 true story. My friend was working ER trauma. A male pt came in with a Mrs buttersworth syrup bottle shoved up his rectum. Since then I have been unable to purchase this brand

Have you seen the Geico commercial with the talking Mrs. Butterworth's bottle?

:bugeyes:

jittybug · May 22, 2008

Caught in the act by the wife, she cut his bird with a knife!!! Gruesome!!! YUCKS !!! Presented to ER., cut bird, wrapped in a cellophane with ice, stitched by the surgical ER. DOCTORS. WHEW!!! That was it.!!!healed nicely, Thanks,GOD, HE had a second life. KUDOS to our Phillipines DOCTORS . LIFE IS KIND , THE SECOND TIME AROUND !!!!!!