The strangest thing you've ever seen on an x-ray?

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Just read the story about the gal that swallowed her engagement ring that her boyfriend slipped into her milkshake. She didn't believe him until she saw the x-ray! Fortunately, the crisis passed ;) What's the funniest/strangest thing you've ever seen on an x-ray?

Specializes in ER.

This isn't a funny story, but pretty cool.

I had a wicked-crazy night full of chaos and mayhem in the ER a few years back. One pt was an elderly lady who fell and had a questionable pelvic fx. So, the ER doc wants an old film for comparison. There was one, but as the tech tried to explain the circumstances, a trauma came in and off the Doc went. "Just get me the film- I don't care when it was....."

Ok, so the tech procurs said film. This film is older then I am- but in perfect condition. It was taken at almost full-term to see if it was possible to deliver this woman's oldest child, currently at her bedside, D/T a worry of a small pelvis. Back then in my little rural town, if it had been decided her pelvis was too small she would have had to go across the entire state to a speciality hospital.

With the pt's permission, said film was displayed with honors in the ER later that night when everything quieted down. It just tickled our pt to show her child their 'first' picture. It was by far one of the coolest things I've ever seen.

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Specializes in Management, Emergency, Psych, Med Surg.

Oh, I and did have a guy one time who was trying to get an erection. He had bought himself a hooker but he could not get it up. So he stuck a swizzle stick into his member, trying to prop it up. Of course it went into his bladder so that did not work. The days before viagra.

I had one guy who injected his member with cocaine trying to get an erection, managed to necrose his member and ended up with an amputation.

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Specializes in pulm/cardiology pcu, surgical onc.

I've seen an x-ray of a magic 8 ball that got stuck 'past the point of no return' , yep it was sitting on a stair step and the male pt 'fell' on it. I also heard from a fellow student while in NS about a client in HH clinical that was c/o vag discharge/pain. Turns out she had a bottle cap wedged up into her cervix apparently for birth control but doesn't know how it had gotten there.

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Specializes in Hospice & Palliative Care, Oncology, M/S.
I have seen on an X-ray:

A can of "Impulse" fragrance spray in the rectum

This makes me giggle. Impulse... yes, I'm sure that was the reasoning.

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Specializes in ER.
dentures "stored" in the lady partsl cavity - said the last time she was in the hospital they lost her dentures so she put them there for safe-keeping!

LOL TOOO FUNNY:lol_hitti

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Specializes in Management, Emergency, Psych, Med Surg.

A female psych patient with an eyelash curler in her bladder.

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This makes me giggle. Impulse... yes, I'm sure that was the reasoning.

This one made me laugh the hardest as well. Talk about "impulse".

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dentures "stored" in the lady partsl cavity - said the last time she was in the hospital they lost her dentures so she put them there for safe-keeping!

The thought of her putting those back in her mouth... Ewww!

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Specializes in surgical, emergency.

My favorite, was the metal Scottie dog from a Monopoly game.

A small child swallowed it, and there it was in the AP throat film, just laying there!! Perfect side view!!!

Also, I attached (I hope) a photo I found online years ago of a bottle where it should not be. What I found interesting was that this person had a hip replacement. Old enough to know better??!!

Mike

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Specializes in Ante-Intra-Postpartum, Post Gyne.

I would not call it funny or strange, but I got to see a x-ray in E.R. of a guy's abdomen full of Buck Shot close range. Another was not an x-ray but a scope, of a grade schooler that swallowed a pencil.

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Specializes in Emergency.

I work in the ED as a clerk right now and you name it we've seen it. One guy had a bottle of hot sauce up his rear...we've seen vibrators, pensils up memberes, paper clips up memberes, pennies...but the bottle of hot sauce was the most memorable as it'd been there for 3 days!

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Specializes in Surgery, Dialysis.
A female psych patient with an eyelash curler in her bladder.

I don't want to sound stupid, but how in the world would that get in her bladder?:confused:

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