What is the freakiest thing you have ever seen at work?????

[fedupnurse]

Several years ago we had an elderly intubated woman admitted from the ER. She had resp. distress at home and ended up vented. They brought her up to us minus her post intubation film so x-ray came up and did one. After, they sent the film to us. As we stood there looking at it I said Ooops, guess whoever tubed her put her teeth on her chest. Into the patients room I go and pull back the top of her gown and whala, no teeth! Apparently her resp. distress was caused by swallowing her uppers! Poor thing needed surgery to remove them, the bronch was unsuccessful.

[Fgr8Out]

Obviously disturbed patient who repeatedly maimed his member. Put razor blades up it... a hose (no i DONT know how)...eventually managed to slice his member in half, lengthwise (picture a hotdog left in the microwave too long)....

76 year old patient with a zucchini firmly entrenched high up his rectum. Family kept asking us why he was having surgery (they had NO idea and nursing decided the explaination was best left to the Physician)... When the patient woke up from recovery... he insisted he "rolled over it in his sleep."

Young patient with SBO... Xrays showed the following in his large intestine....:

A length of bicycle inner tubing

Bicycle tire pump (the small, straight kind carried on the bike)

Small wooden handle...something akin to a broomstick

Bottle of roll on deoderant.

(Think he was going on a bike ride and didnt want bothersome body odor??)

Needless to say... the guy bought himself a colostomy.

Drunk male... hot summer night... swimming pool surrounded by gothic-type metal fencing with spiked tips at the top... Male climbs fence to sneak into pool... slips and falls on spiked fence... impales himself rectally.... The pool was the one at his OWN apartment and the GATE was the next segment of fence over.... :roll

Do I mention the gal coming down from methamphetamines... her libido at a HIGH and the can of hair mousse?? No???? LOL

[cassioo, RN]

:roll

When I worked on an ortho/neuro floor we had one guy who would pull his cath apart and suck on either end like a straw. It was really just gross but some of the things any of the brain injury patients would come up with now are funny

[mother/babyRN, RN]

In no possible way can I top any of these........I HAVE to give it to you ER people but WHY in the world do you turf pregnant women so quickly when everything I have read here leads me to believe they are the very LEAST of your worries????:)

[Nurcee]

medical leeches.

ick

[teeituptom, BSN, RN]

howdy yall

from deep in the heart of texas

In all these years at work, I think the freakiest thing Ive ever seen at work was my reflection in a mirror,after I had been golfing all day long, was nicely sunburt, wearing brand new royal blue scrubs, face red and peely and yuckier than ever,

keep it in the short grass yall

teeituptom

[fedupnurse]

Lori,

Where do you work???? Guess nothing amazes you anymore after those, huh?????

[teeituptom, BSN, RN]

Howdy Yall

From deep in the heart of texas

Well aside from myself and my assorted and sundry sunburns. I think the all time frakiest thing I saw was a guy in his mid forties who had lived a varied and alternative lifestyles. On physical assessment this pt had studs implanted all over his body, including nipples and navel and scrotum and member and other parts also. The really unusual part is that theses implanted studs were all of gold and silver tipped with either diamonds. emeralds, rubies, pearls. He was a walking talking jewelry display counter. I didnt even see that many precious stones when I went to Zales jewelry store last time. He kept telling me he wanted to be cremated when he died. I wonder if all those attacments were cremated with him or not........Too weird for me.

keep it in the short grass yall

Teeituptom

[fedupnurse]

Being female, can any of the men out there tell me exactly how drunk a guy has to be in order to have a tattoo placed on the tip of his member?? It was a heart! (He also had multiple body piercings and was afraid of needles!)

[teeituptom, BSN, RN]

howdy yall

from deep in the heart of texas

Well fed up, Ive seen people who have had it done. But I myself could never even begin to get that drunk to have something like that done. It would scare the ________ out of me.

keep it in the short grass yalll

teeituptom

[caroladybelle, BSN, RN]

Teeituptom,

Have you seen where people will get (sterile metal Pegs) things implanted under their skin, such as little horns sticking up and such with the skin still covering them.

Hate to MRI that one!!!!!

[Hailey's Mommy]

I was working on a med-surg unit and was told only that I was getting a pt. back from surgery in a few minutes and his name. I was curious what kind of surgery he had before he came back so i looked it up on our computer. it did not have the surgery info yet but i looked at his xray report apparently he had a 40 watt sylvania light bulb shoved up in his rectum. they had to go in and surgically remove it. my fellow employees was not going to tell me but let me go in and ask the ? of why he was here. how mean. needless to say surgery was able to remove it completely intact. the guy told me that he was using it to dilate himself because he was constipated. yeah right.

[colleen10]

I'll hopefully be starting nursing school soon so I have a lot to discover yet!

But last year I had a serious allergic reaction to Poison Ivy. It wasn't the typical itchy skin either. Both arms from the wrist to my shoulder were completely covered in silver dollar sized blisters that were raised about a quarter of an inch.

They were like that for about 4 days until the swelling started to go down. Then they were just covered in scabs.

I looked like a Gremlin when you get water on them. It was pretty sad, no one would come near me and I had to eat all my meals by myself.