What Freaks You Out?

[JennieBSN]

Okay, people. It's time for a nice, fun, light-hearted discussion to blow off some steam.

WHAT FREAKS YOU OUT? What bodily fluid can't you STAND? What wound gives you the absolute WILLIES? It doesn't matter if you're an ADN, BSN, LPN, CNA, PQRST, ABCDEFG...every body gets the heebie jeebies over SOMETHING...even you stomach-of-steel ER nurses!

Mine is eyeball injuries/surgery...aaaaaaaaackkkkkkk!! Gross! Makes my skin absolutely CRAWL. Or when someone gets a little cut on their finger/toe/whatever and then squeezes it to make it bleed!! Bleah!! Then there's the ever-popular RESPIRATORY SECRETIONS. I can handle poop, pee, amniotic fluid, lanced boils, pus, whatever...but give me a nasty snot-filled trach, and I'm OUTTA THERE.

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[Louisepug]

NO!!! You CAN'T be serious!!!! ROACHES??? I am not a "bug" person, especially roaches. I think I would have lost it!

[Nurse89]

Originally posted by Nursenan0

I think the respiratory snotties are bad but the one thing I cant forget.........one of the floor nurses came around to my desk one day and said...he has worms in his foot!, and walked away...of course i couldnt let it go at that and had to go look, an elderly diabetic, renal failure man, with a necrotic foot....he had been going out for dialysis and would return with the bandage off his foot, and being warm weather..............big crawly maggots by the hundreds.....AAAAAGGGGHHHHHH! Still gives me the crawlies, and probably always will!!!!

Nursenan

I was reading some fo the posts and was thinking I have a pretty high tolerance for most things..UNTIL I read this.

I actually gagged

this would freak me out for sure

I have seen maggots, but never on a human being

[CCU NRS]

I don't know if anyone else said this because by the time I am looking you have already had 519 posts, wow!

NE way I personally can take anything but what bothers me the most is Charcoal emesis or stool but I think emesis is worse especially if it gets in their hair and it's just nasty it makes everything black and here goes the worst thing it is one of those smells that you taste if you know what I mean and I know you do.

[SugarMagnolia]

My # 1 creep-out thing is any fashion of a nail injury be they finger or toes..I just can't cope. I'll deal with 'em if I have to but not without my skin crawling just about off me.

#2 is vomit 'cuz it's just plain shag-nasty.

[SugarMagnolia]

My # 1 creep-out thing is any fashion of a nail injury be they finger or toes..I just can't cope. I'll deal with 'em if I have to but not without my skin crawling just about off me.

#2 is vomit 'cuz it's just plain shag-nasty.

[Wolfpax]

decapitation... yep that would do it

[Wolfpax]

decapitation... yep that would do it

[jaimealmostRN]

I know this is odd, but I HATE normal, formed b.m. I seriously don't mind diarrhea, GI bleeds, etc, but if someone has a normal one and I see it, I will not eat for at least 24 hrs. YUCK!

[jaimealmostRN]

I know this is odd, but I HATE normal, formed b.m. I seriously don't mind diarrhea, GI bleeds, etc, but if someone has a normal one and I see it, I will not eat for at least 24 hrs. YUCK!

[Fly4Life12]

just maggots in ulcers...

[Fly4Life12]

just maggots in ulcers...

[DavidFR, BSN, MSN, RN]

Sputum is the one that gets me.

I worked on a respiratory unit with alot of adults with cystic fibrosis, who would have disgusting sputum; black on occasions. Worse was that the doctors used to like us to record if it was mucoid, purrulent etc. which meant examining the sputum cartons daily, and weighing their daily output. Foul!