What Freaks You Out?

ktwlpn, LPN · Jan 29, 2002

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

What is an internet quickie? Is it like a cyber-quickie?

mopsi · Jan 29, 2002

rolling on floor laughing my ass off........roflmao

Goofball · Jan 30, 2002

Originally posted by McCoyRN
where i used to work, all the nurses threw money in a container and the one who did the dressing change would get it. here's why...
a mid 50's man w/ a h/o uncontrolled diabetes, necrotic foot ulcers, smelly and gangrenous went to his doctor for an unrelated problem. the dr told him that his tests were positive for colon cancer. being upset, the man went out binge drinking that night, got home, passed out and didn't wake up until about 38 hours later (he missed a whole day!) anyway, when he woke up, he realized that his dog had eaten off some of his toes. so he was in the hospital, pre-op for an amputation. i never got the money in the container. i still gag just thinking about it

whooo McCoy, this one would do it for me!

I supposed the dog actually chewed and swallowed too, so it wasn't like the guy could have his parts sewed back on, huh. (Like Mr. Bobbit. Hey, lucky for him a dog didn't happen on his missing parts before the police recovered it!)

Uptoherern, RN · Jan 30, 2002

WORST ever yet., 400+ lb guy last night, in er awaiting non-available bed to icu for pt >100. Guy needs to pee,,,,ok you are +50...go pee! No sir-e-bob! I get the supreme pleasure of trying to hold the urinal under his where-is-it-in-all-this-fat member. He's yelling "hold it up there!" I'm thinking "what do you do when you are at home?" Of course, I get some pee, but most dribbles , streams, onto the floor and onto my (thank god) gloved hands. gotta be the worst..... yucko supremo...the next thing he wants is food...

Uptoherern, RN · Jan 30, 2002

being charge rn one night, I heeded the call of an old ortho surgeon who yelled " I need a sterile container in here!" I waltz into the room, and he grabs two black toes and yanks. CRA-A-A-cCK... He puts the two dead toes into my container and instructs me to take this to path. Yeow. yuck. I can still hear the snap of the toes.

Uptoherern, RN · Jan 30, 2002

homeless people have to be the worst....We had a drunk a few weeks ago nicknamed "doc" cuz he says he used to teach nursing in Salt Lake City....don't remember the original complaint, but he had poop in his fingernails (long!) and the typical STIFF pants. Now I remember,,,,he said he was pooping blood...What Can you do? We HAD to take off his shoes (rule #1: never take off a homeless person's shoes)..then we HAD to take off his pants to get him into a gown. I NEVER vomit, however, the nurse I was with kept dry heaving... His scrotum was WAY bright red. I told him he had the worst case of diaper rash I had ever seen in my life! He then proceeded to poop some more (after we had already cleaned him head to toe), and then proceeded to dig his fingernails into his but, thus poopling his fingernails once again. We cleaned him up AGAIN...this time using the 100 year old green soap. and the doc walks in...."I didn't smell anything!" Hello! We just used 56 washclothes and 43 towels on this man....of course you didn't smell anything! He is now a rose!

Caro · Jan 30, 2002

Not a completely unknown scenario !

My fiance nursed a guy who was psychotically depressed and performed a bit of do it yourself eye removal. poor guy removed both eyes within seconds.

Alas nurses are not gifted with telepathic powers and sometimes you don't see something like that coming. You can't keep people in restraints or seclusion because they might do something.

I admitted a guy whose first sign of psychosis was cutting off his member , testicles and ears - his horrified parents were able to restrain him before he could pluck out his eyes. :eek:

Caroline

suzy-que · Jan 30, 2002

I have a stomach made of steel and nothing really bothers me. At my part time job in a subacute health care center, I enjoy suctioning trach's, have changed dressings for dehisced abdominal wounds... and decubiti where muscle and bone are cleary visible. I have seen toes on the brink of falling off. I have smelled C-Diff on a weekly basis. I have seen a split member from a foley cath that looked like a banana peel. None of this has phased me.

However, at my full-time job as a school nurse...the one thing that can wreak havoc in my school and turn a teacher or a parent into a psychotic basket-case is.....HEAD LICE! I have to admit, when I see a louse scurry across a head that I'm checking...I feel a chill go down my spine. To rid a child and home of lice is a dreaded job...I always feel sorry for the parent and try to give them a few words of understanding and empathy. Then I run to the bathroom and put my hair up into a scrunchie! :eek:

NurseDennie, BSN, RN · Jan 31, 2002

Yeah, me too. Seen it all, smelled it all, wore some of it, and it didn't affect my lunch at all.

But Chewing Tobacco grosses me out SOOOOOOOooo badly!! I was afraid of grasshoppers when I was a kid because somebody told me they spat tobacco. Ewwwwww - I'd rather be stung by a bee!!!

I really can't function in a room with a cup full ... OOoh, starting to gag here... Can't concentrate on conversations, I tell them they HAVE to hide it from me! Ewwww w- gotta go!!

Love

Dennie

SpecFuz · Jan 31, 2002

These stories, although very funny, are scaring me to death! I am planning to go for a BSN and my biggest fear (aside from the general worries of being able to handle the school work) is...will I be able to handle the 'blood and guts'?

I "think" I can...but how do you know? The only thing that makes me believe I can do it is that I took care of my elderly grandma for years and would change her and clean her etc. and I felt good helping her.

But whew...some of these stories. Smells get to me a bit, so I guess I'll just have to learn how to breath out of my mouth!

Any advice? Did any RN's feel this way in the beginning and just didn't know what they could/could not take???

I am interested in L&D and think I could take that, but some of this stuff is totally freaking me out! :rolleyes:

mjamesRN · Jan 31, 2002

These are the things that make everyday memorable for a nurse. I haven't yet had the pleasure of many of the grossities I've read here, but, hey you can't say you don't have an exciting job. Never has the clock ticked by so fast in a job.

Only a nurse knows how a nurse sees and feels.

The head lice is a new one. Quite skeevy...just please -- wash those TOES!!! no no no no no more cheesy toes!

And these FAT people. oh- I feel so sorry, but I also wanna say, GET A GRIP and PUT DOWN THE TASTI-KAKES and DORITOS for GOD'S SAKES!!!

....cockroaches running out from fat-folds ...JESUS K-RIST!!!

mjamesRN · Jan 31, 2002

Spec Fuz --

Don't worry about the Blood and Guts -- that's easy....IT's THE TOES YOU HAVE TO WORRY ABOUT!!!!

AAAAAuuuuuuuggggggggghhhhhhhh!!!!!

....one good wretch and/ or faint-away, and you'll be able to handle it all.