What squicks you out?

Give me an MRSA infected wound or a trach patient with pneumonia and I'm your girl. Hand me a pair of clean dentures and I can put them in the denture cup. Hand me a set that haven't been cleaned in a while or take them out to "take the bits out of them" and I am out of there in a flash. Yucka!!

I'm also freaked out by eyeballs. I had a patient lose one (a contact lens) up inside his eye lid and he asked me to get it for him. I tried, but as soon as I lifted the eyelid, my stomach heaved. Couldn't do it. The ER show with the guy with the expanding eyeball? I turned off the TV!

Nasty teeth in a denture cup--yeah wipes me out----Old man feet with their thick yellow toenails ( usually smelly toe nail) grosses me out, but my all time #1 can't handle it... go away is sputum!! You can poop on me, puke on me but don't hock up a loogie(sp) on me!! LOL :rotfl:

Ahhh.... what a lovely thread

I got quite a few chuckles out of this and can't wait to meet my match. :uhoh21:

My buddy's dad is a corrections officer at a max. security prison here in Michigan and was once projectile vomited on by a prisoner that had been orally raped. Apparently by more than one prisoner, from the amount of semen that came out. :stone :barf01:

Ahhh.... what a lovely thread

Glad you like it.

This thread is great.. almost theraputic in a wacky sort of way. Getting ready to start an accelerated progam in the fall, and the exhilaration of getting started is usually tempered by thinking.."can I handle ?"

Seeing that some folks are "squicked" by stuff I find rather mundane is strangely encouraging (was an EMT for a while (years ago) so I've seen a few things). For example... suctioning.. I think I'm sort of the opposite. I hate it when there's any hint of rattle, bubble, pop, etc. I'm almost OCD about it... I actually feel relief when the noise stops. Anyone remember the comedian Red Fox? I couldn't stand to listen to him 'cause it always sounded like he was in need of a good throat-clearing hack. Gee.. so I guess you could say I'm squicked out by the thought of someone drowning in their own phlegm.

My buddy's dad is a corrections officer at a max. security prison here in Michigan and was once projectile vomited on by a prisoner that had been orally raped. Apparently by more than one prisoner, from the amount of semen that came out. :stone :barf01:

Ok, see, that's just disgusting.

I got quite a few chuckles out of this and can't wait to meet my match. :uhoh21:

My buddy's dad is a corrections officer at a max. security prison here in Michigan and was once projectile vomited on by a prisoner that had been orally raped. Apparently by more than one prisoner, from the amount of semen that came out. :stone :barf01:

I think, by far, that is the grosses thing I have ever heard!!!!! :barf01: :smackingf

Right there with you!!! Anything from the mouth.

thats odd

Okay, it's official: I'm a freak of nature.

I suctioned a trach pt in clinicals the other day. It didn't bother me a bit. The next day in our skills lab we practiced suctioning on the dummies, no actual sputum involved. I nearly yakked. So photos and other non-human representations of ick are much much more bothersome to me than the real thing. I have problems....

I got quite a few chuckles out of this and can't wait to meet my match. :uhoh21:

My buddy's dad is a corrections officer at a max. security prison here in Michigan and was once projectile vomited on by a prisoner that had been orally raped. Apparently by more than one prisoner, from the amount of semen that came out. :stone :barf01:

Gross! Very gross! Shudder!!! That has to be one of the more revolting things that I have ever heard!!

You'd think that would be enough to keep people from winding up in prison.

Another gross thing to add.

One of our pts. apparently had seriously clogged sebaceous glands on various areas of their body. The doctor squeezed a couple, and from one of them, a 2 inch long, fat-spagetti-wide, tan-colored streak of dirt and gunk came out.

I did actually puke from that one. Never knew a zit could develop its own putty.