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OK, Mario's thread about cheese, and Zhakrin's coke bottle post made me think up this one for fun. We've all had them, or heard about them. What is the most interesting thing you have had a person insert into an orifice, on pupose (forget the moldy baloney sandwiches between fat folds.)
I would imagine ER and OR/PACU nurses deal with this the most. My ER nurse friend told me this one. On survelience camera, they saw a woman come in with a large blanket wrapped wrapped around herself. They were naturally curious, when they got her inside, she opened the blanket to show her nipple caught between her boyfriend's teeth!
One anesthesilogist said on his ER rotation in med school, they had a guy come in with the John Travolta spandex flare pants. They were so tight, they could not get them off, and he had arrested. They cut off the pants and found a huge salami taped to his leg.
My only personal PACU story is having to go in on call for a guy who got hamburger tongs stuck up his butt. Another PACU nurse said he favorite was a jean nate bottle.
So, share your story....
A friend of mine was a radiology tech. at a small midwestern suburban hospital. The hospital was the closest medical facility to a group home for delinguent / emotionally disturbed boys. She would gets lots kids coming in from fights etc. but one night she had a 16 year old male come in with a screw up his urethra, head went in first. Apparently he had unscrewed the screw from his bed because the staff had taken sharp pointy objects away from him because a few months prior he had taken a pencil and also put it up his urethra, point first. My friend was responsible for taking an X-ray his member.
Very uncomfortable for both of them!
These urethra stories are giving me the heebie-jeebies! I always feel kind of bad whenever I have to insert a well-lubricated foley cath into a man or woman and I personally have never had one inserted-- It makes me shudder to think about ANYTHING in my urethra, let alone spaghetti, wires, screws??? You think you've heard it all and can no longer be shocked by people's behavior, and then you read the Allnurses B.B... :imbar
What an education I'm getting here! YIKES!
We had a guy show up in the ED with a "Kong" dog toy Kong Dog Toys in his rectum. When the ED couldn't remove it, off he went to the OR where CRS had to! After a week in the SICU I don't think this guy ever wants to show his face in the hospital again!
A friend of mine who works in radiology has a collection what he calls his "teaching films" in his locker- naturally these films now rest on top!
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Oh I forgot this one, a twelve year old boy with a flash light in his rectum. Seems no one told him to not shove it in ALL the way. The xray was neat you could see the batteries and the spring inside. Of course this had to happen on Christmas eve.