What was the MOST ridiculous thing a patient came to the ER for?

And did you have to treat them?

I am just curious. Your stories always seem to either crack me up or shake my head in amazement.

Thanks for sharing ?

Once upon a time we had a middle aged man present with the c/o having a rubber fishing worm up his member. He claimed his Dr. told him to insert it into his urethra if he had trouble urinating....ok then...:chuckle . The real bummer was the little sucker swam upstream and was happily floating in the guy's bladder. The OR team truely loved being called in to go bait hunting. And then in PACU the guy says he hoped that people weren't talking about him, he was just doing what the Dr. instructed:rolleyes:

Specializes in ICU,ER.
And what are you doing up at this hour young lady?! :chuckle Shouldn't you be resting and gestating? :chuckle Have a good leave!!

Miss you,

Pam

~~sigh~~ I know this sounds terribly sad...but I am going to miss work and all of you crazy people.

As far as "this hour" goes....you know...it's the night shift thang..... :chuckle

As I type this, I am washing baby clothes and getting ready to pack for the hospital. funfun. (actually, it really is, hehe)

Hugs,

Leah

ooooh! i got another one. i saw this lady peeing standing up! and i'm sure it was a woman. she was peeing on to a bed pan that was on the floor. The 30 year old son was trying to keep the curtains closed cuz he was kind of embarrassed that his mom was peeing like a man! HIPPA's not being violated is it?

Okay, this is still a strange subject for me but seriously, there was an actual article floating around the internet written by none the less and RN teaching women how to pee standing up! Gues we know what that woman likes to read! :rotfl:

Specializes in Critical care.
a middle aged male pt with a good sized mackerel loged in his rectum. i guess he didn't know that fins only go one way, it made for very a interesting ct scan.

that's life in san francisco.

rintime

holy mackerel batman (sorry it's a word association thing)

Specializes in Critical care.

Okay here is one. Had a guy come to the ER with a Hickory Farms summer sausage up his &*()&^%. When asked how is got there he said well, " I was hungery and lonely and unfortunately I am still hungery.":smackingf

Also had a husband and wife come into the ER looking for Viagra, triage nurse asked why they were in the ER the husband stated that, " the old bat finally said yes and I've waited to long to let this opportunity go.":selfbonk:

Just read an article on Friday about some 45 year old man who died in a Washington ER from a perforated colon after having sex with his horse. Unbelievable story. There are definitely some strange things happening in this world!!

Specializes in Happily semi-retired; excited for the whole whammy.

A couple years ago, there was a story on the radio about a man presenting to ED with an unfortunate injury resulting from inappropriate use of a ball washer at the golf course. An ED nurse friend of mine once remarked that stupidity keeps them in business.

Specializes in ICU, Telemetry, ER.

One of the most ridiculous things I ever treated was a girl who came in and said her tongue was black....I said have you eaten anything black tonite? she said noooo.... her friend says you had some licorice earlier... anyway I say to my work partner louder than I intended--this is the stupidest thing I have ever heard....(she also wanted me to call her parole officer and let them know she was in the ER) duh she's wearing a bracelet that allows her to be out only so long...hummmmm.& had probably exceeded her time somewhere else you think?? Anyway in a few min here she comes and says "since you think this is stupid I'm gonna go. I said ok I think you will be ok and by the way I didn't get your parole officer (no answer) & she left. We get people all the time that want pregnancy tests. We usually don't do them unless they have a complaint like abdominal pain or need xrays. They are usually not ones who pay the bills anyway so money is no object

Specializes in ICU, Telemetry, ER.

We have a prison here and they sent this guy in one nite..his c/o was his member hurts because he's been masterbating ....OMG can you believe that one!! That one left pretty quick

A med supplier who drove 70 miles on one cheek to have a banana removed from his rear. He paid cash.

As a matter of fact, in the wee hours of Monday morning, I woke up with severe pain on my left side front and back and radiating down my groin. I also had alot of pressure to urinate but when I tried could only void a very small amount. Also had vomiting and nausea.

Well, the pain would not subside. Any Tylenol I tried to take for it was vomited up.

Finally after 3 hours of this, I dragged my aching body to the car and drove down to the ER at 4:30 in the morning. I could not understand what could be causing the pain and was, understandably, afraid.

There was blood in my urine and they did a catscan, but the nurses had already figured out I had a kidney stone ("doing the kidney stone dance").

They put an IV in me for fluid and pain medicine and when I was awake enough let me go home with vicodin and suppositories for nausea and vomiting. Doc instructed me to see a urologist in the next couple days.

I hope the ER staff didn't think me coming down with a KS was silly. I live alone and just have myself to depend on. They sure did help me out - the pain was unbearable.

Just a little anecdotal story.

I have kidney stones and there is nothing funny about it. I've been to the ER three different times. Mine always occur on the weekend. I have had two children and the kidney stones are worst than labor. NOTHING SILLY ABOUT IT!!

melissa

i remember when i was fairly new to e.r. i was orienting to triage. a woman came in and said "i'm here for my brain transplant"...not skipping a beat, i said, "ok, ma'am, just sign in here". not funny in terms of the situation, but funny looking back.

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