Probably the worst was a 400+ lb guy brought in by EMS because he couldn't care for himself any longer. He was early 50's and was still wearing the hosp gown he was d/c in 3 weeks before.
He was so big and the house was so piled up with garbage they had to cut a section of wall out to get to him. When he got to us he was covered neck to toe in fecal material.
Me and 2 other nurses went in to start giving him a bath. Lots of hot soapy water and about 50 towels. As we turned him onto his R side, we noticed something hairy stuck in a fold.
It was covered in poop, and upon futher inspection we noticed it had blown pupils. That was the first rat I have ever had to pull out of a fold. We also recovered some Little Debbie wrappers in other folds and a crushed coke bottle stuck in his a$$
We did get this guy admitted and sent to a nursing home for better care.
As a new grad in the ED, I was doing an intitial assessment on a gentleman that had c/o a possible broken great toe at around 3am. His girlfriend, a little person (about 3'10") attentively and sympathetically listening.
He had gotten up during the night to go to the bathroom and struck his toe on a nightstand, fracturing it.
Later during his assessment when questioned re: pain, I asked him to rate his pain from 0, being "no pain", to 10 being "the worst pain you ever felt in your life". He looked at me with such a confused and lost look on his face, glancing back and forth between his girlfiend and I when he finally looked at the floor and said, "Gee, Sir... I ain't too good at math!"
I stood there dumbfounded, holding back my giggles and had to excuse myself in order to recompose!:roll
this is just weird. had a heroin od a few years back that we coded and the pt died. it was a male in his 20's. well, the body was prepped and the family was called from the wr to view it.
well, no one paid much attention to the family until the family left. the mother and father walked out of the room, followed closely by the patient.
well, we all just about jumped our our skins.
it was the patients identical twin, and yes, they were dressed exactically alike! :eek:
Well...seems i'll have to buy a new keyboard if i can't clean all the puke out of it! YUK! Some of these stories are down-right awful!
Makes me appreciate you guys more. Thank God the rats, maggots, worms, flesh-eating beetles, crusty colostomy junk, etc. get cleaned up before you send them our way! Kinda makes me appreciate my relatively sterile icu a bit more
Although i'm not an er nurse, i do have a funny story that happened to me last night...
One of my patients was a drug-OD/suicide attempt that was stable and was to be transported to an outlying psych facility...my other patient was in the process of dying and recently made DNR (we were to transfer her to a floor after extubation.)...so needless to say, my night was kinda slow.
So, i get a call from the sister of the OD/suicide attempt who is asking for an update. I mistook the names and updated her on the pt who we had just made 'comfort measures only'.
"...she's comfortable mam..but you'll probably want to come in to see her, we don't expect her to last the night..."
Well...you can imagine how the rest of the conversation went.
Not too discount the tattoo to teeth idea, but I have full sleeves of excellant tattoo work, not to mention work on my chest, legs, and neck, and I have all of my teeth, no decay, and am also top of my nursing class.
Not too discount the tattoo to teeth idea, but I have full sleeves of excellant tattoo work, not to mention work on my chest, legs, and neck, and I have all of my teeth, no decay, and am also top of my nursing class.
Keep the stories coming guys, I'm ROFLMAO!!!
yea, i have tattoos too! and i have all of my teeth. well, there is one tooth missing but it is in the back! does that count?
come on, you can't see where it is missing.
speaking of teeth. i think crack teeth look so gross. and breath?! OMG! i sometimes where a mask tinted with benzoin to keep the nausea down. nubbins nubbins nubbins!
Probably the worst was a 400+ lb guy brought in by EMS because he couldn't care for himself any longer. He was early 50's and was still wearing the hosp gown he was d/c in 3 weeks befor.....
i worked at a trauma center. that hospital owned the nursing home across the street. well, there was this 500ish lb lady, on a vent no less, who was in respiratory distress. she was to big for the ambo so about 7 medics and firemen decided to push her across the street bagging her and up the hill to our doors.
well,you know as soon as we heard of this we had to go and watch. it was the funniest thing to see. all those men pushing that bed!
yea, i have tattoos too! and i have all of my teeth. well, there is one tooth missing but it is in the back! does that count?
come on, you can't see where it is missing.
speaking of teeth. i think crack teeth look so gross. and breath?! OMG! i sometimes where a mask tinted with benzoin to keep the nausea down. nubins nubins nubins!
whaddya think athomas? know anyone named nubins?
Gaaaack! How can you wear a mask with benzoin on it? That smell makes me want to hurl...so sickly sweet! I'd rather smell rank breath.
ERKev
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As a new grad in the ED, I was doing an intitial assessment on a gentleman that had c/o a possible broken great toe at around 3am. His girlfriend, a little person (about 3'10") attentively and sympathetically listening.
He had gotten up during the night to go to the bathroom and struck his toe on a nightstand, fracturing it.
Later during his assessment when questioned re: pain, I asked him to rate his pain from 0, being "no pain", to 10 being "the worst pain you ever felt in your life". He looked at me with such a confused and lost look on his face, glancing back and forth between his girlfiend and I when he finally looked at the floor and said, "Gee, Sir... I ain't too good at math!"
I stood there dumbfounded, holding back my giggles and had to excuse myself in order to recompose!:roll
ERKev