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re: For the nurses/docs, what's the craziest things you've ever seen at work?
Posted on 2/8/16 at 11:10 pm to Rockbrc
Posted on 2/8/16 at 11:10 pm to Rockbrc
Walking out to my car, see couple in the median of our parking lot posted up on one another, can tell something is wrong, ask them if they need help and they ask for a wheel chair. I go grab one, position behind wife to help her sit down, put my hand by her lower back/butt to make sure she doesn't fall when she sits and she starts yelling he's down there he's down there. I assume she's a psych patient and reel back real quick. She sits down and says he's coming he's coming. I realize this chick is pregnant, she's in sweats though and couldn't even see the baby bump. Next thing I know she's yelling he's out he's out and the baby is crying from inside her sweat pants.
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Posted on 2/8/16 at 11:15 pm to John88
Not a nurse (yet) or a doc, but I did work as a medic in ER when I was in the Army. Anyways....
Had a guy get a piece of sausage stuck in his arse. Apparently he was doing some weird shite while it was frozen, and it broke off during said weird shite.
Had a guy get a piece of sausage stuck in his arse. Apparently he was doing some weird shite while it was frozen, and it broke off during said weird shite.
Posted on 2/8/16 at 11:34 pm to John88
ER nurse here and too many to narrow down to one but today I had a schizo man throwing his own poop at us from his colostomy bag while laughing and cursing at us. Just another day.
Posted on 2/8/16 at 11:38 pm to DownSouthCrawfish
-Saw a guy who punched through a sheet of glass. Well the glass shatter and cut him deep down his forearm, to where the muscle and tissue were hanging out of his arm.
-attempted suicide with a pistol below the jaw. Shitting gun so it only shattered the saw and he lives.
-plenty of heart attacks / codes. Most of the people were obese and been killing themselves for years with bad food and no exercise.
I know I have more stories, I'll think on it and report back tomorrow.
-attempted suicide with a pistol below the jaw. Shitting gun so it only shattered the saw and he lives.
-plenty of heart attacks / codes. Most of the people were obese and been killing themselves for years with bad food and no exercise.
I know I have more stories, I'll think on it and report back tomorrow.
Posted on 2/8/16 at 11:43 pm to John88
While in med school, stuff in the ED usually does not gross me out (gyno-exams, necrotic diabetic toes, car wrecks)...
Only one time that I wuss-out and had to leave to exam room: a truck driver checked in with shortness of breath. In the exam room, the nurses began to remove the dudes boots, he was not wearing socks, and I don't know how long he had those boots on... he said that he would sleep in his boots.
but his freaking entire low leg from where his boots started were covered with a combination of fungus, sheets of dead skin, and opened sores. The sight didn't affect me, but the smell was unimaginable... Feet + sweat + fungus + shoe bacteria + open wound all marinated for days!!!
I lasted about 10 seconds in the room, a mask didn't help... I could still smell that odor in my nose for days.
Only one time that I wuss-out and had to leave to exam room: a truck driver checked in with shortness of breath. In the exam room, the nurses began to remove the dudes boots, he was not wearing socks, and I don't know how long he had those boots on... he said that he would sleep in his boots.
but his freaking entire low leg from where his boots started were covered with a combination of fungus, sheets of dead skin, and opened sores. The sight didn't affect me, but the smell was unimaginable... Feet + sweat + fungus + shoe bacteria + open wound all marinated for days!!!
I lasted about 10 seconds in the room, a mask didn't help... I could still smell that odor in my nose for days.
Posted on 2/8/16 at 11:45 pm to Lokistale
Did he live?
Posted on 2/8/16 at 11:56 pm to SabiDojo
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Did he live?
Yeah, mild congestive heart failure for his shortness of breath. His lower legs and feet while disgusting beyond description, the problem was treatable. Scrubbed with hibaclens twice daily, IV antibiotics for a few days, oral anti fungal treatment, wound-care... he was all good after a few days. His boots however were disposed as biohazard waste...
Posted on 2/8/16 at 11:58 pm to SabiDojo
Posted on 2/9/16 at 9:42 am to Brosef Stalin
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Curious how long it takes you medical people to get used to seeing stuff like this. I've seen plenty of gore on video, not sure how I'd react seeing it in person.
It was bad but not terrible. She died. But she was a "blunt trauma arrest" who was coded and revived in the field. Those really have a ZERO chance of survival. Only by luck, her yourthful heart muscle, and a shite ton of epinephrine that she even made it to us.
It did give the mother time to come get her in a hospital and see her. Instead of draped on the side of the road. We got to clean her up a bit.
Fortunately it's not like TV. One of those doesn't come in per week. Or per shift. FYI I have never worked a Level 1 trauma center. Those folks see more. Her being probably suicidal helps. The guy was not drunk either. Just a preacher (of all things) driving home from an evening service.
Posted on 2/9/16 at 9:57 am to John88
I once saw a patient with an entire hand that was degloved in an accident.
Posted on 2/9/16 at 10:46 am to LSUcajun77
Jesus, I respect you workers a lot. No way I could do this shite.
Posted on 2/9/16 at 11:07 am to Lokistale
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I lasted about 10 seconds in the room, a mask didn't help... I could still smell that odor in my nose for days.
I know that smell. Lady came in an ambulance with severe pain. She was really large and had her own med bed so they put that in the ambulance. Turns out she had not been out of bed for any reason whatsoever in roughly a month. Her kids kept brining her food and water and she would just go on herself. When we finally rolled her over it was the grossest thing I've ever seen in my life and the smell was more than I could bare. Her open wounds went all the way to bone on her lower back and pelvis. There was no flesh remaining in some parts of her backside.
Posted on 2/9/16 at 11:18 am to Paratiger
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I said Danny's property, She said yeah, well sometimes.
Trifling ho. You should have committed trespass.
Posted on 2/9/16 at 11:22 am to Gradual_Stroke
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All those 95 hour weeks really leave a lot of time for my golf game
I want to believe you, but...
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Posted on 2/9/16 at 11:26 am to TheMightyTerrier
Posted on 2/9/16 at 12:06 pm to Skin
Some of these are really fascinating In a weird way
Posted on 2/9/16 at 12:33 pm to meaux5
Went outside to take a break while following a couple of guards and a prisoner that we had seen several minutes earlier . All of a sudden the Sheriffs pull guns and scream at this girl to drop it . She did't and they shot her three times . She was sixteen and was talked into breaking this POS out . No bullets in the rifle and paralyzed from the neck down for the rest of her life . Shame .
Posted on 2/9/16 at 12:33 pm to TheMightyTerrier
Frickin a, that's like the kind of shite on that my 600 lb life show.
Posted on 2/9/16 at 12:40 pm to John88
I've had several pt.s over 800lbs . This one pt.was in the ICU ,Septic and was scheduled for debridement due to a huge decubitus on her sacrum that the family didn't know about . OR shows up at 0600 and her mom was in her ICU room eating Popeyes with her . Didn't make it .
Posted on 2/9/16 at 12:51 pm to TheMightyTerrier
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Her open wounds went all the way to bone on her lower back and pelvis. There was no flesh remaining in some parts of her backside.
My wife who is a hospice nurse has to deal with obese people with various mortal diseases. 90% of them have bed sores, and like the one you described. She said it's the worst smell.
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