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

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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.

Had a femal patient admitted with necrosis from the waist down..took more than an hour to do her treatment daily and two nurses...if you moved her LE too much you could see the black tissues start separating. Bless her heart..she was so sweet..it just killed us...she lived 3 - 4 more weeks this way.

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I worked in Boston at the STD clinic and I got a guy in with the worst case of smegma I had ever seen. He wasn't circumcised and he had so much crap under the foreskin it had caused a serious excoriation of the member head. The freaky part was he said he was "saving it for a wedding gift for his girlfriend". He wouldn't wash it off, it was his "golden wedding ring" for his new bride. Imagine a thick yellow ,smelly, ring of crap all around and under the skin...I just about died, then had to explain to the ID doc w/out laughing. He couldn't get this guy to understand why collecting smegma was not a good idea. Needless to say he was not happy w/ us when we washed it off to take our cultures. All I can say is Gross!! I'll never forget that smell!! I wonder what he ended up giving his girlfriend instead??

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smegma, what a wonderful word! We use it to describe suits and doc we can't stand.

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Specializes in ER,Neurology, Endocrinology, Pulmonology.

A patient was admitted to the ER with head trauma and (don't ask why) they X-rayed his head.

Ingrown into his scull they found numerous amount of pins and sewing needles. The patient, apparently, was completely unaware that there was something there. He said that he did get headaches from time to time but didn't think anything of it.

the only theory the doc came up with is that the needles were put into his head in early childhood.

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i think if my hubby to be was planning on giving me a "golden wedding ring" on our honeymoon....it would be THE shortage marriage ever!!!! that is filthy!!!!:imbar

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OMG! The megma story literally made me gag.

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Little old lady, CVA, NPO, Oriented x 0, been sat-ing low, 70's-80's, since late afternoon. No idea why. Put her on nasal cannula.

Next morning, am presented with the COMMUNIUN WAFER :eek: that was found in the back of her throat, found while getting mouth care on night shift!!! Seems the priest came to see her yesterday afternoon and was not a good one!:devil:

Sat-ing 97% on roon air after extracting said wafer.:p

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We had the sweetest little resident in the nursing home where I worded many years ago as an aide. Anna had a trach. A LONG term trach... Well, there wasn't much amusement there, so Anna got a kick out of "hiding" her trach tube! Sometimes a confused resident would come up and hold it out, saying this lady gave it to him...once we found it hidden in another resident's diaper. It might be in a shower, a toilet, anywhere. We always knew that when Anna came up to us without her trach, it was going to be an interesting day. She would laugh and laugh (silently) watching us hunt for it.:chuckle

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Gotta love patients like Anna.

Speaking of glass stuff up the butt, a friend at work was doing AGency near her home and got a patient who shoved a glass mustard bottle up his poop chute. They had to break it (guess it must have been that family size ones!) and this young guy ended up with a colosotmy-probably permanently. Can't stick ANYTHING up there now!!!

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I'm not in the ER... so most of the pts we get are pretty "bland" but we had this pt on our floor with a Jpeg and wound drain (med/surg floor) and the nurse hooks up the tube feeding to the wound drain and suctions the Jpeg for three hours! Not a pretty sight.

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Originally posted by OrphanAnnie

Had a femal patient admitted with necrosis from the waist down..took more than an hour to do her treatment daily and two nurses...if you moved her LE too much you could see the black tissues start separating. Bless her heart..she was so sweet..it just killed us...she lived 3 - 4 more weeks this way.

:eek: Orphan Annie, what caused the necrosis?

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originally posted by fedupnurse

smegma, what a wonderful word! we use it to describe suits and doc we can't stand.

from webster's, read out loud by an emt i worked with: smegma-"a cheesy, lacquer-like, odoriferous substance."

i guess that about covers it! what kind of gift is that for a wife? a "foretaste":devil: of what is to come?

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