What Freaks You Out?

ICUBecky · Jan 29, 2002

any kind of "centesis", lumbar punctures, epidurals... just watching a large needle being jammed into a body part, and watching the fluid poor out, absolutely makes me sick. i've almost blacked out a couple of times...

starting foleys on women who don't have good peri-care....bleeeek. how hard is it to wash down there???

mjamesRN · Jan 29, 2002

The maggot thing is not so unbelievable. Flies lay eggs very quickly (no labor involved) and consequently the eggs thrive in an acidic environment per se where putrefaction begins with garbage/ rotting food stuffs, not that anyone's lady parts should be considered such a place, but....

We had a frequent flyer, a homeless diabetic who just couldn't kick the bottle. He had a leg ulcer that just wouldn't heal. (Diabetics just SHOULDN'T drink alcohol.) The last time he was brought in (by the cops off the street), under his never-changed dressing were over 300 maggots. He was admitted directly to the floor and with the seasoned courage of one our senior LPNs, the maggots were extracted from his wound -- the floor was covered with them.

He spent a month or so in bleach-water hydrotherapy before his discharge. A few months later we heard he finally died on the streets, his FIVE adult children nowhere to be found.

Gee, why bother going to the movies??

Goofball · Jan 29, 2002

I didn't mean that maggots weren't believable, in easily accessible body parts. I just couldn't

understand how someone's privates could be heavily infested, especially since the area is usually covered with clothing; also wiped several times a day (as in urinating, etc.) so I was just wondering how flies got in there, and then how were the eggs able to stick around so well and turn into maggots.

jayna, RN · Jan 29, 2002

Can stand fluid, but maggots! Yikes, gives me the creeps. Once iwas working in the outpatient cojoining the ER. There was an old man brought who was living byhimself, relatives brought him to the hospitals, and poor man was soo damn smelly, so bad your brain gonna explode. Well, he has NIDDM with ulceration of the leg, and has a wound on his inner thigh. Poor me, changed his clothes and saw the wound full of maggots and even maggots falling of his scrotch.......god that was one hell of my nursing career's experience. ALSo the poor man was a bit confused and even eaten feaces while in the hospital(different ward though).

Maggot no way near me , crawly, wriggly thing yuck yuck:eek: :eek: :eek: :eek: :eek:

EXOTIC NURSE, RN · Jan 29, 2002

I actually had a patient who had a irish potatoe stuck in his intestines you could see it just looking at his abdomen area and he smelled horrible.......Please dont ask me how did he get a whole irish potatoe in his intestines without swallowing it.....lol...I also at this same hospital happen to see some Xrays of gerbals, and toothpaste pumps stuck in the rear of men. That really brought pain sensations to my rear end to imagine how the patient felt with these objects up thier rears. I have seen some things in my career as a nurse but that just floored me......

jpetro · Jan 29, 2002

Well Exotic you certainly beat mine. The only thing I have seen was the x-ray of a vibrator stuck a little too far up a mans rectum. Interesting film. Gerbils huh? Wow! Too trippy!

misti_z · Jan 29, 2002

I too have seen the xrays.....OMG!!!

Last week we admitted a 837 pound male!

It was nasty, he had weeping cellulitis. He stunk, stunk, stunk! We ordered an 'oversized' bed before he got to the floor, when he arrived we all looked at each other....horrified! It took 7 security guards and 3 men from environmental services to tranfer him onto the bed, but he didn't fit! We ended up ordering a second oversized bed and wiring the two together! He was terribly big. It took 3 of us holding up his belly and 4 (2 on each side) holding back his thighs so we could find his member to put a foley in!!!!!! Glad no ones grip slipped or the person putting the foley in would be lost forever! Later that night he coded!!!!!!! Respiratory arrest, got him intubated, and headed to the unit. And then like Caro's story we too got stuck in the elevator! After about 30 minutes we got him to the unit. :eek: 6 days later he is still in the unit, we are keeping all of our large room full until he is out of the hospital. :rolleyes:

LMAO

Goofball · Jan 29, 2002

To exotic nurse:

Toothpaste pumps??!!!! Toothpaste pumps stuck up

someone's rear???!!!!! Now THAT'S unique!!

micro, RN · Jan 29, 2002

:eek: all I can say:eek:

maggots on a scrotch!!!!! :o

LMAO?

micro:p :p

ktwlpn, LPN · Jan 29, 2002

To mjamesrn from Pa- "Cheesey nursing home toes"?!!! I LOVE that line.I have seen and smelled many a funky foot and couldn't say it better myself...ROFLMAO! As for maggots in lady partss- imagine for a moment an elderly lady in her nightie(with out panties on-most don't wear them at night)-she gets up to go to the bathroom and falls fracturing her hip.Several days later she is discovered lying on her back with her legs spread.She has surely been incontinent a few times.Are you getting that visual? Need I say more? I love this thread-I keep coming back every time I log on.It is a compulsion-I can't stop.....I am so disappointed if day or so goes by without a sick new scenario.....O-please help me!!!!

kids · Jan 29, 2002

- flys will also lay eggs on clean dry surfaces and later be contact transfered to a (moist) surface they can hatch and thrive on...

never encountered maggots on a (live) person but of all the 'non-medical' gross things they are my #1 freak me out.

-nancy

micro, RN · Jan 29, 2002

would someone be so kind to this ignoramus!!!!!!!!! need help with internet quickies!!!!!!!!! help me, please!!!!!!!!!

micro:p :confused: