What Freaks You Out?

Goofball · Jan 14, 2002

Chuckie, that's a good one. I also don't like putting a condom cath on a pt. with a penile implant.

Karen4HIM1951 · Jan 15, 2002

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Yuk, Yuk, Yuk - I haven't laughed so hard in a LONG time!!!

The chicken feathers really gave me a cakkle(sp)?

The eyeball thing would probably have grossed me out!

In over 25 years not much has - except the lady I went out to

do dressings on and the roaches crawled out from under her

dress and down the wounds! Oh yea - the maggots and parasites would have gotten to me too!!!!! :eek:

micro, RN · Jan 15, 2002

AND WE DO THIS FOR A LIVING!!!!! :rolleyes:

pretty strong stomach here, but projectile vomitting does get me!!!!

also the wrong fluids coming out of the wrong orifices, if you catch my drift? :mad:

think this yucky thread is the chuckle's!!!!! WHAT WE DO!!!!!

Honey, what did you do today? Do they really want the answer?

hehehehehehehehehehehehehehehehehehehehehehe:D

micro:p :p

VickyRN, MSN, DNP, RN · Jan 15, 2002

My most sickening patient-care memory...

Years ago at a small community hospital, I took care of a spunky elderly woman. She had lived alone most of her life, had no relatives and few friends, and was fiercely independent. She didn't like going to doctors, so she never went, for years and years and years. Even when she had a small "sore" on her shoulder that just wouldn't heal. She didn't think anything of it, just kept "doctoring" it herself, as the lesion slowly and ominously kept growing bigger and uglier over the years. After a bad storm, she fell backwards in her house, and neighbors carried her to the hospital--first time she had medical attention in a LONG time. She had broken her right arm, and even more distressing was this horrible malignancy that had taken over her right shoulder area. You see, it had started out as a simple basal cell carcinoma, the type of skin cancer that is so easily curable with a simple outpatient surgery. Now it had spread through her skin into her bone, over the entire shoulder down the first half of her right upper arm. Thus began an ordeal for this lady that was too agonizing for words. The doctor had no choice but to do a "radical neck" type surgery to the shoulder area, cutting away all layers of skin, down to the red muscle and bones, from her right lower neck, clavicles, to her upper arm. Horrific. Even more horrible to do the numerous dressing changes daily. She was with us for months. I'll never forget that pungent, sickly sweet heme-betadine smell in that room. The doctor ended up amputating her entire right arm, leaving the closed socket, meat cut down to the bone. She ended up dying a slow painful death. I really felt so sorry for her. I really liked her. Terrible, terrible. :o

Chuckie · Jan 18, 2002

Goofball · Jan 19, 2002

HarrrrHarrr, Chuckie, too funny. I know many pts

or family members always insist on saving gross

stuff to show us, too. But they usually let it

coagulate and putrify in the bathroom for quite some time first, of course with the bathroom door shut tightly so that you can appreciate the full

aroma of whatever disgusting specimen it is. Even if you had no order or no intention of saving it

OR looking at it! Now that's when I nearly heave

my cookies! But the nicer ones at least, at some

point, warn you before you go in there.

nursechris1 · Jan 20, 2002

I am totally laughing out loud about to pee my pants!! My son is looking at me like I am weird!

Here is what freaks me:

Hip or knee surgery (I hate the chiseling)

Peeling clothes off of a hog farmer, who lives on a farm with no running water, Needless to say hasn't bathed in a long time.

His daughters rotting breast (from breast cancer never treated)

I can handle sputum, vomit, suctioning trachs, but I cant handle toenails, boogers (sp?) , or when my husb wants me to pop one of his zits.

I almost passed out in nursing school during my psych rotation watching shock therapy.

Had a patient who was missing half his face, part of his nose, from cancer, open dripping wound, the smell made me want to hurl.

I too have encountered the old lady with the brown shit eating grin! YUUUCK.

Last, but not least, My dog ate a dirty diaper and I had to pull it out of his butt when it finally started to pass.!!

momrn50 · Jan 20, 2002

Cannot stand to see someone vomit...I can look at it afterwards and even clean it up but the act itself does me in...also MRSA wound smells...BLAHHHHHHH..... :eek:

micro, RN · Jan 20, 2002

Can just about handle anything sight, sound, or touch.........but our cats killed a little mouse and I eeeeeeked!!!!!!!!! :p

micro:p :p

kids · Jan 21, 2002

I don't mind it so bad when one of our (6) cats kill a mouse, they really seem to enjoy reliving the kill all over the yard (with the now squishy mouse) but what totally grosses me out about it is the bones crunching...thats right, I don't have 'normal' cats that just play a mouse to death...they EAT THEM!

bugs me even more when I think about what picky eaters they are and the fortune I spend feeding them.

mopsi · Jan 21, 2002

the setting...an inner city hospital....the patient , a middle aged black woman. dressed poorly. poor hygeine. address the projects..assorted diagnosis...h/o drug use ,etoh. iddm, pvd. presenting with c/o pain in foot and leg. very sweet lady and tearful at time..some commentary going on with doc's..probably drug seeking...i get her in exam room undress and into gown..vitals okay ..notice she has a haphazzard dressing on right foot and leg which was the source of her pain...okie dokie...gotta remove the dressing to see whats there and......maggots start falling all over...poring out..falling on the floor..wiggling on the gurney....crawling off the dressing which i was still holding......we had to get bug spray to get em all before we could even clean the wound....the patient kept saying i thought something was moving in there....i almost really passed out...i think i might have post traumatic stress syndrome from this one......yuck!!!!!! needless to say i spent a huge ammount of time trying to teach this gal before she was cut loose.....big picture breaks my heart....how can this be happening in the richest counrty in the world...i still am opposed to sending bucks to afghanastan when theres so many here ...so disadvantaged...may god bless us all...

KIWIRN · Jan 21, 2002

i really hate trachy's! all those disgusting secretions yukkkk

I am not too fussed on gunk in the eye (sleep) it doesn't seem to move with facecloths and the only effect way seem to be with your finger (gloved of course).

oh and old people who dont wash properly and have a build up of dry skin spots ewwww