I was almost sent home by an ER doc who couldn’t be bothered to give me a proper exam. Turns out, my liver ruptured and I was bleeding internally. I would have left the hospital like that if it hadn’t been for a caring and observant nurse who insisted that I stay and wait for the new ER doc who was coming on shift in a few minutes. I did, and ended up needing (among other things) blood transfusions. I don’t think it’s an exaggeration to say that that nurse saved my life.
Hey i got told my ruptured fallopian tube from a ectopic pregnancy that was noticeable long before I needed surgery was muscle cramps and my period when I was pregnant and had come in 3 weeks ago 5 times for the same issues when I knew i was pregnant. Long story short i almost died and havw permanent damage because of that hospital. This is a recent story and I am suing
I had a heart attack in 1992. That ER stopped the world for me until I stabilized and was sent to a room. Can't speak highly enough of these medical professionals who cared for me that day.
I had a similar experience two years ago. I was bad and was told by the triage nurse unless someone comes in not breathing you are our number one priority right now.
@cheriem432 My mother was a geriatric nurse. Medical personnel motivation is intrinsic, based on their love of medicine, their regard for humanity, and their dedication to preserving life.
When I worked as a secretary at a mortuary, I asked my boss who is the mortuary owner/ a mortician if there were any times that the mortuary was sued (he was pretty cautious to the point of purchasing a fireproof safe to store ashes waiting to be collected by families. He read about how a funeral home burned down, losing the ashes. Families of the deceased sued the funeral home for losing the ashes in the fire). He said the closest time was when a guy was in a car accident and was horribly disfigured. It was so bad that the morticians working on the body strongly advised the deceased’s wife to not see the body (and they’ve seen horrendous things, like severed body parts, brain matter, burned bodies, etc). She insisted, but the morticians warned her that he looked pretty bad to the point of being unsalvageable. She pushed back and still insisted on seeing her husband’s body. The morticians relented, but on the condition that she signs a paper saying that the funeral home advised her not to see the body, she agreed to see it anyway, and can’t sue the funeral home for psychological distress. She signs the paper, sees the body, and (of course) freaks out about the horrendous state of her husbands body. She then tries to sue the mortuary for causing her psychological distress from seeing her husbands mangled body, but her attorney said she doesn’t have a prayer of winning a lawsuit cause she signed the paper agreeing that she was forewarned and can’t sue the mortuary. Morals of the story: paperwork can save your hide, and when a mortician strongly advises you not to see a body due to the state it’s in cause of the nature of the death, it’s best to follow their advice.
A friend of my moms lost her son due to a. accident his grandfather was driving and a bee flew in and the boy was severely allergic. He swatted at it and got it out but ran into a flat bed truck. He was instantly gone. They wouldn’t allow her to see him and I don’t know if they let her. I was twelve and he was 6.
Tapeworms are segmented and can easily break apart so some of the tapeworm may still be inside. The patient would still need to be treated for tapeworm.
😂I thought my overthinking brain was in pleasured hell when retracting tapeworm was I.D.d. tugging on them will cause the segmentations to separate and grow into another worm
My daughter's husband was convicted of domestic abuse while she was pregnant, so he wasn't allowed to be at the hospital when she delivered due to a restraining order. So his mom took it on herself to be there on his behalf. My daughter had no contact with his side, so for the last 4 weeks of her pregnancy, the woman called every hospital in the area several times a day to see if she was there yet. Unfortunately we didn't know she was doing that, so we didn't know to tell them not to tell anyone when she DID go into labor. She showed up at the hospital and marched right on into the delivery room. She got right into my daughter's face, and kept contradicting her coach and nurses because; "I just went through this with my daughter so I know how it's SUPPOSED to be done." Her best friend/coach, and her boss (a close family friend) and I were there with her. But they ended up having to make her boss AND mother-in-law leave to get rid of her mother-in-law. The woman sat out in the waiting room complaining to everyone who came by that my daughter was giving her coach her wrist band rather than one of the grandmas. She made such a fuss that the hospital changed my daughter's name in their records, and recorded that her son was a girl to throw her off the scent. But that didn't stop her, she poked her nose into every room in the maternity ward until she found the right room. She pretended to be calm and normal, and my daughter sat and talked civilly to her, until she grabbed the baby and tried to walk out with him. Fortunately my daughter's boss noticed in time and scooped up the baby from her arms and took him straight to the nursery. A nurse who saw it all happening called security, who escorted her off the property. I KNOW it didn't actually happen in the ER, but it WAS in the hospital.
I hope she wasn’t just thrown off the property but also arrested, she tried to kidnap your grandkid and that attempt should be on her records for life!
@highwaysstar No, she was just escorted off the property. Laws weren't as strict back then (27 years ago), so getting her arrested wasn't happening. It was a fight just to get security to make her leave. But that doesn't mean there were no consequences. Thanks to her little stunt my daughter refused to allow her to see him. Had she not done that, my daughter WOULD have allowed her to come see him, but not after THAT. She short sheeted her OWN bed. We're pretty sure she was trying to take him to see his father, since he had a restraining order against him for both her and the baby. It was issued by the judge who convicted him of domestic violence. Just getting him convicted was quite an accomplishment, the prosecutor was shocked when she heard the verdict. His uncle had been the sheriff for over 20 years, so even getting him ARRESTED was difficult, anyone with his last name had a pretty long leash in that county back then.
@samanthas2280 The hospital that he was born in no longer exists. The maternity ward there was the SAME one I was born in in the 1950s, and was in the middle of being upgraded, but the new part wasn't finished yet. Had he been born 3 or 4 months later when the new wing was ready, they would have had much more security.
Many years ago I worked as a medical transcriptionist and heard lots of crazy stories in dictations. A coworker who sat next to me showed me the transcript of a woman with a RAW frozen chicken in her vagina. She was unfortunately, delusional, and expressed a desire to have a baby.
Many years ago as a young nurse I was doing peri care on a 98 year old nursing home patient. As I started to clean her she yelled “Johnny - quit licking me down there!!” I was horrified and thought someone would think I was molesting her so I yelled “I am NOT licking you!!”
Same 98 year old patient. Roommate with a 99 year old who used to live next door to her. 99 year old a spinster strait laced schoolteacher and 98 year old had been married 3 times, none was named Johnny! They hated each other. One time 98 year old was crying hysterically. I asked her what was wrong and she said “Johnny got his thing cut off and he bled to death!” I worked there in the late 1970’s. Now all that could be a movie!!
I spent one birthday in the ER for three reasons. My mom was having severe pain related to pancreatic cancer. My brother had the flu and is type 1 diabetic and in DKA (very high blood sugar, very bad news), and my sister thought she was having a miscarriage but turned out to be very badly constipated. All three were there all day with mom and sister being discharged in the evening and brother getting a week long stay in the ICU. The nurses got used to me running between rooms and even told the next shifts why there was a crazy person bothering all the patients because the ER was very busy and none of the 3 we’re near each other.
I'm an ER clerk, I was there the day after this happened and heard the story. We had police bring a psych patient, search them, then we put them on a hold for psych to see, but not in a locked room, and still in street clothes. They bolted, police were called, and they brought back the patient, who was then put into a locked room since they were now a flight risk. No one re-searched them, or had them change. After a while in the room, the patient removed their shirt, took out a lighter (they had aquired it from someone outside before being returned), and lit their shirt on fire. No one knew which code to call (red for fire, white for violent patient, or silver for weapon) and everyone froze for maybe 60 seconds. Patient then peed on the shirt to put out the fire. Nurses then went in with security to have the patient change and I believe restrained them. Patient claims that was their whole plan, to light the fire and pee it out to intimidate everyone, but the nurses are pretty sure they realized they were in a small locked room with a fire, and when no one immediately opened the door, they didn't want to suffocate. We were told in the morning debrief if it happens again to call the code red and if the patient escapes again it's okay because the police will bring them back again.
Middle aged man presented to the ER with a 6 inch, metal tipped, Pink stiletto shoe heel stuck in the middle of his forehead. The second I saw him walk through the triage door I had to look down and pretend to read a chart because I knew instantly what happened. Wasn't going to be my patient, so I just stood where I was, within earshot, so I could hear his story. About 2 minutes after he arrived to the room, there was a bit of a commotion at the triage door ... The woman who owned the shoe busted in, demanding to have her shoe back because "they're fucking expensive". Funnier still was that she'd not removed the other shoe so she could walk properly. Left shoe on, barefoot on the right, so you can imagine how she was walking. Add to that was her askew wig from her minor tussle with staff before she busted through the door. Eventually, security got her in the waiting room. Doc went in to see the pt, heard the story, looked at the shoe, thought for a moment, and just pulled it out. Barely a scratch, a significant dent, he declined CT, bandaid applied. While awaiting official discharge, I went into the room and retrieved the shoe, handed it to a tech and asked that he go into the waiting room and return it to it's owner. The tech asked "how will I know who to give it to?", to which I replied, "you can't miss her." Gentlemen, PSA: Women who dance in gentlemen's clubs wear those shoes for a reason ... as a weapon. Act inappropriately and they will kick you in the face with that heel and honestly, you could lose an eye.
I was attacked in a *newly paved* parking lot in my nice, new stilettos . The attacker grabbed me from behind and lifted me up. Upon being let back down, I stamped one foot onto an instep, something I had learned in a self-defense class. He let go *immediately*, screaming in pain. Since the pavement was still soft, he was literally stuck to the pavement. I jumped out of my shoe and called 911. The police removed my shoe from his foot and gave it back. There was *no blood* on it, thank goodness! Frankly, I was more concerned about my shoe than his podiatric health.
Just as a patient: I had Supraventricular Tachycardia, that acted up when I was around 11-12 years old. (I had a surgery when I was 12 that fixed it) Went into the ER during one of the episodes. As we (me and my mom) enter, there's a very drunk lady struggling with the nurses. One of the nurses shouts at us "what's your emergency?" And I answered SVT. They instantly let the drunk go (who darted past us and out the exit doors) and hurried us in. I was like "don't you need to wrangle her" And they were just like "eh she'll be fine" It was really that incident that made me realize how serious my condition was.
When I was 12 I had my first asthma attack. I was rushed to the hospital two blocks away. In the ER, the nurses kept trying to get me to lie down. I couldn't breathe, so I sure as Hell didn't want to *lie down*! We almost resorted to fisticuffs before they backed off. Jeez!!
My dad's was an ER nurse for many years and has A LOT of stories. I worked in ER registration for many years. The craziest thing I ever saw come in (small town hospital in the 90's no separate entrance for the ambulance) was a guy who was working on an injection mold that was stuck in the open position. They had removed the plate someone didn't do the correct safety checks and just as the guy crawled into the machine whatever was stuck released and the compacted pressurized spring shot out and lodged into his skull right by his eye. They had to cut the spring, stabilize it the best they could and bring him to the hospital because the closest helicopter was over an hour away. There wasn't much they could do for him except keep him comfortable. Did hear that he lived and I think his eye was ok but didn't hear much more than that.
My hands down favorite was my 19 y/o brother. Sidenote: we're huge fans of your stuff! Anyway he was barefoot on our back patio trying to fix our gas powered mower and had the genius idea to put some gas in a pop bottle to get it going and it literally backfired, he burnt his foot and ended up starting a fire on said patio (thankfully it's all concrete). So when he went into the ER he literally told them "I set my f**king foot on fire!" (it was mainly around the side of the arch of his right foot, just 1st and 2nd degree burns). Five months prior to this, he also got an emergency appendectomy the day we were supposed to go to comic-con to meet his favorite voice actor of all time.
I think I amused the ER folks when I went in for appendicits and had an appendectomy. I wasn't employed at the time and knew that there was no way (obvs American here) that I was going to be able to afford being checked out, let alone anything else. Thankfully, I hadn't started collecting unemployment yet (b/c that would have been too much money to qualify for the state plan) so was setup with the state health plan by folks in the hospital. Once I knew that was taken care of, I had no problems with being told anything else. I did register some surprise when they were like "So you're going to need surgery...." and I was like "Ok, sounds good!" I think it was about my 12th surgery, so it didn't really cause any anxiety, I was mostly grateful that the symptoms would subside (and that I didn't have to find the tens of thousands of dollars to pay for it!).
I had a sudden cardiac arrest in 2019 and the crap hospital i was taken to tried to send me home! Luckily my husband was thinking better than me and said hell no! Ended up spending the night at the crap hospital and then sent to a much better one where i spent 6 days in cardiac ICU, where i found out I'd had a heart attack maybe a week prior (unknown to me!). If id gone home that night, i wouldn't be alive today. SCA has a 4% survival rate! Thanking God I'm still here!
You are so lucky that he stood up for you. My father-in-law had something similar happen. When my husband and I got there in the morning, we arranged a transfer because the hospital seemed incompetent. When he got to the next hospital, they discovered a 99% blockage in the aorta! He should have had an emergency stent that first night. He survived by dumb luck. My dad died from his. They called it a sudden death heart attack. He grabbed his chest, hit the floor and was gone.
Anyone that has worked in a hospital, no matter where they work at, can tell some wild stories. When I was in high school, I worked in the hospital kitchen. I have seen some things that people won't believe. There was a psych patient that got loose and wound up in the kitchen. I will never forget watching him trying to dice up a plastic coffee mug to put it in his omelet.
You are right! I was working in a hospital lab. I was summoned to speak to an African patient who only spoke French. I would ask him about his symptoms in French, and he would respond in English . . .? When the doctor asked the next question in English, he went back to French. I don't know whether he was very confused, or if he was just messing with us, but we found a "system" that worked, and I did a lot of translating for a couple days!
23 years as Navy Hospital Corpsman, 20 Years as a VA LPN. Q: How do you tell the difference between an oral thermometer and a rectal thermometer? A: By the taste
Here's my story: for way too long, I would have random stomach "episodes." Meaning, my stomach and back hurt so bad, that all I could do is scream. I had to be rushed by ambulance one time because I could no longer breathe normally. I couldn't take a full breath, and it wasn't a panic attack. They checked me, did an xray, and said I needed to follow up with a gastro doc soon because they couldn't find anything. One week later, I'm back with the same issues, only now I'm throwing up from the pain. Different doctor that night, did different tests, and turned out I had a bowel blockage and needed immediate surgery. Had to be rushed to a different city hospital by ambulance, and 27 staples later, I was finally better. Worst pain I've ever had. And I was in the hospital for a week.
Yikes. Same sort of thing happened to me, was told interstitial cystitis of course, though I never got to even see a doc, just an intern who kept running back and forth. A few weeks later I had the mass removed. Nobody cared that my stomach had gone from 27 inches to over 40.
A story from when I was a student. An elderly patient needs a rectal exam. The young surgeon sticks his finger in... and the patient says out loud, "Oh no. Doc, that's the wrong hole!" We try our best not to giggle, but the doctor starts saying, "No, ma'am, I'm a surgeon, I know what I'm doing, that's the right hole," in a really panicked voice. Then the old ER doctor says, "Well, she thinks you do other types of services here." And we all absolutely lose the battle, giggling unprofessionally.
My mom had a case of tapeworm when I was a kid. We are at a shady hot dog place called no joke, sneaky Pete's. She said it's okay, their food is okay, I said no thank you and ate subway. A few months later, the tapeworms appeared and a month of anti parasite treatments she was good. When we went back to Birmingham Alabama she didn't eat there again.
When I was five I had recurring tonsillitis so had to have a tonsillectomy. When the nurse came in to get blood for typing, she took it from my earlobe and blotted it with a paper towel to make a smiley face on the towel. (My mom wouldn't let me keep it for some reason, even though I thought it was cool)
I have an interesting L&D story. My daughter was the patient. She went into labour on a Thursday evening but the hospital sent her home because she wasn't dilated enough. She went home and I went to my home in a city 30 minutes away. TWO DAYS LATER she was still in labour and returned to the hospital. They gave her a shot of morphine and sent her home again! This time I went home with her since I was the only one in our group of 8 with any experience with labour (the baby's other grandmother had all of her k8ds by c section). I'm glad I did. A couple of hours after getting to her place she and her bf called me into the bedroom. The baby was coming. I called 911. I was both excited that I may have to deliver my granddaughter but also scared of the prospect. Remember, she had been in labour since Thursday and this was now the wee hours of Sunday morning. I was worried about the possibility of complications. But the EMTs got there before the baby came, which was both a disappointment and a major relief. The baby was born less than 10 minutes after my daughter arrived at the hospital and less than 5 minutes after the father got in the room. Everyone was fine and there were no complications
I'm on level 5 in my ward, at about 11pm. I'm talking to the nurse at the desk and a girl around my age comes up and starts chatting. She wants to know if i want to go wandering around the hospital with her. I explain I'm there for severe asthma so no. She says i can get a wheelchair! I'm slowly edging closer to the nurse, giving her panicked looks as i have no idea who this person is, and it's night! Yep, psych patient who slipped her police guard in the ER and magically found me.
As a patient: When I was 12 I had surgery to correct a heart defect. There was a girl in my hospital room who had the same first name, last initial, birth date, and our Mom's both had the same name. It was weird. The one thing we didn't have in common was she had a pacemaker. The surgeon came into the room to talk to me about the proceedure....he started to describe hers. He then noticed all the similarities and decided it was too much of a risk he might mix us up later, so he switched me to a neighboring room.
Not medical, but when I met my future husband and were comparing notes, His name is Carl. One of my brothers is Carl. His father is Anthony; so is mine. He has a brother named John, as do I. Our mothers are both Evelyn. *And* we are both left-handed! Is that the Twilight Zone theme I hear in the background?
@@cheriem432 not as crazy as my hospital story, but both my sister and sister in law have the middle name Nicole. And both my mom and mother in law have the middle name Marie
My doctors office had confused me with another patient who had the same name. At one appointment (after being a patient for a couple of years) the nurse was asking how my twins were. I was confused as I had never had twins. She had a shocked look on her face then excused herself. One time confusion sure, fix it and move on but every single time I went in after for an appointment, they had the other woman's file and used it as mine. The office workers would become angry with me for questioning them if they had the correct file, even though they were STILL confusing us. The last straw for me was when I went in for a procedure and I found out it was for the other woman. A young front office girl had the audacity to ask if I still wanted the procedure knowing it wasn't for me!!. I demanded to speak with the manager. Next thing I know the doctor was hurrying out and asked to see me privately and begged me not to sue him, which I didn't but years later now wish I would have. Who knows how many other patients were mixed up and how many other patients received another patient's medications or procedures? I no longer trust what my file has in it. Other doctors made decisions about my care based on my file even after I warned them what happened. I don't think they believed me
I worked in a hospital for about 7 years, on the same floor as the the ER, but on the other end. Numerous times there was CODE SECURE (hospital police) called because bf&gf were in a wreck and their wife or husband showed up and a fight ensued😂
Nope, don't pull the tapeworm. You have to coax it out or kill it with an antiparasitic. Loose tapeworm segments can lodge in the appendix, the gall bladder, and probably many other ducts. Eggs can actually migrate to behind the eye and into the brain.
I'm L&D, my crazy ER story is: I was doing a new-hire orientation when I received a phone call from my husband's employee that he was bringing in my hubby to the ED with a severely lacerated hand. Had the new-hire watch some modules while I went down to ED to check on hubby. I was assured that he'd be fine as they were taking him to x-ray to make sure there were no metal fragments in the wound. ...I was later taking my new-hire on a tour of our critical access facility, and she got to meet my hubby, covered in blood wearing a Santa t-shirt, in May. He called me when they were done to see if I could take him back down to the machine shop (obviously couldn't), so he had the ED RN call his father-in-law to help him out. Oh the joys of small town living😂 You always know someone!!!
Ok, here's my you gotta be kidding me ER story: I am a retired pharmacy technician who worked in the ER as a medication reconciliation technician. I only saw pj's who were getting admitted to the hospital. I go into this room to interview the pt, and the nurse was in there, charting. I was used to hearing lots of weird stuff by thus point. The pt seemed to be under the impression that it was still in the 1970s and that he was in a Grey's Anatomy episode. I was going down my checklist of questions and he pipes up saying that he had taken one of his Viagra pills but none of the nurses had hopped in the bed with him. I just nodded and asked him to verify the strength of his prescription. The nurse, a very nice woman, quickly logged off the computer and walked out of the room. He gave up and just answered the rest of the questions. I kept a very good poker face. I did, however, trip over the nurse, who was doubled over, laughing when I walked out. She asked me how I was able to not react. I was just fascinated that this guy thought that TV was really how life was in the ER. Well, sometimes.
@cheriem432 yeah. I mean, I was living with my parents to save money for a house post divorce during my time in the ER. I'd get home, and dad would ask if I had any good stories to tell. I usually did. Some, I couldn't tell. But I could confirm if I was at the hospital when my mom started reading the police portion of the town weekly paper. Dad always made sure to be available for that. My sister yelled at me for not telling her about her son's best friend breaking his arm. I just stared at her for a few, and all I said was HIPAA. She got confused for a moment, and then my BIL told her I couldn't tell her anything. She has never worked in the medical field and doesn't know what it all entails. She did apologize.
In the 90s i was in a fight and my nose got broke i went to er and sat there for hours getting very dizzy i told the nurse at station she handed me a garbage can and told me not to bleed on the floor i went and sat back down i guess i passed out i woke up to hear that nurse getting yelled at for not taking me seriously i guess my nose was so badly broke i had a brain bleed hence the dizziness
When I was three I was getting surgery to put a Gromit in my ear and I was on anaesthesia. I had to be strapped down to a bed and dragged through multiple sections of the hospital while I was screaming HELP ME to all the patients, and my mum had to hold me down
I understood the Theory of Relativity at seven years old, when my younger brother an I had our tonsils out at the same time. When my older brother and I went for shots, he always went first because he was older. Now *I'm* the older one, and I had to go first. Relativity sucks!
I am a fan of the nursing staff at hospitals when my parents were in the hospitals for their final times- those nurses helped me through those times, took excellent care of my parents. and for me- the times I've been in excellent nurses except one that I was worried about her ( I wrote a combo letter: an exemplary regarding all the nurses and a complaint on the one to the hospital CEO)
This was why I went to the ER when I was newly married and just 18. I was a very heavy sleeper and apparently my husband had sex with me while I was sleeping and he didn't know I was on my period. We were moving and I had to be taken to the ER because my stomach hurt and my mom thought I was miscarrying. I was so embarrassed when the male doctor pulled out a nasty tampon that smelled horrible. I am a light sleeper to this day and I am 72 but single for a long time. Never again will I go through that.
My son decided to put new brake shoes on his car. During the process the jackstand collapsed and the brake rotor landed on his foot. That was the last time he tried to fix his own brakes.
My sister worked at an internship at the local hospital over the summer. One patient she saw was a guy in his early 30’s that was shot in the back a few years ago. He didn’t take care of his gunshot wound, and because so the gunshot wound grew into a huge open wound where the flesh is gone, diseased and you could see the spine. My sister had to clean the stinky wound on a daily basis. It was so big that the doctors said amputation of the whole hips region and below still wouldn’t save him. Poor guy wants to live so badly and is scared to die, but because his wound is so big, it’ll likely end up killing him. 😢
What's your opinion of a nurse sitting you in a waiting room chair, when you're crying from a broken back, and severe stenosis, when the file already says that it broke that night? Am I too demanding, or was she as hateful as I felt she was? I really look forward to your opinion. Love your stories ❤
Was helping a nurse insert a foley cath into a very confused elderly lady. She didn't understand what we were doing or why. So, she fought us. Her daughter was in the room with her trying to calm her down and cooperate. We ended up with one medical staff on each limb. And the nurse trying to place the catheter. The patient stopped fighting and was calm. So, we released her arms. The nurse was finally able to place the cath. The patient reached down and patted the inserting nurse on the head and said "Be good to it Honey. It's been good to Me." We lost it. The daughter had this very shocked look on her face and yelled " MOTHER! What are you saying"!
About the tapeworm; one of the ways a tapeworm reproduces is by letting bits of himself fall out of the rectum into the ground, so it can be eaten by the next host. Of course, the tapeworm wants its bit to fall on the ground, not in the water, so maybe that's why it retracted?
My uncle delivered his ninth chicld, third son, at home on the bedroom floor after the hospital sent the parents away because mommy was wrong - she wasn't in labor. It's her NINTH kid guys!
With my fourth, and in hospital, the nurse and my midwife were chatting away at the foot of the bed, I had a blanket on, and I said "hey, I think the head is crowning". I guess some of us just get on with it without a fuss :)
I was discharged with a Hangman's Fracture, after a motorcycle accident, where I went base over apex about ten times at 65 mph. You'd think they'd have looked harder with that history. Best thing, it was diagnosed about twenty years later, by my Neurosurgeon who took one look at the x-ray and went, "Fuck no! I'm not touching that with a ten foot pole! " I concurred looking at the report. About five minutes later I said, "So they sent me home? When I could have nodded and ended up quadriplegic?" His answer? "No, you'd have been dead!" "The clue's in the name of the fracture, "Hangman's", you fuckwit!" I thought! Talk about not thinking things through, that and the human ability to deny death, when he taps on your shoulder.
Re tugging at tapeworms: Winding the exposed part of a worm around a stick (Ex: pencil or tongue depressor) allows for slow rotation of stick to apply tension while pulling out worm ... which some have hypothesized is whete the caduseus medical symbol comes from. ⚕️🤔
so i'm an EMT. we got a call for a possible arm fracture. when arriving at the given address, the patients daughter opened the door and led us to her mothers bedroom. there sat a tiny old woman, well into her 80s. she wore a long sleeved sweater, but still i couldn't help noticing a very concerning bulge in her right humerus. it was immediately clear, that it was a complete fracture. however, the old lady was completle unbothered and guesturing around with her right hand... i asked her if she was in any pain and wether or not she wanted some analgetic, but she said it was no big deal. talking to the daughter, it turned out she fell 2 days ago and therefore running around for 2 entire days with a completely fractured humerus. i was completely MIND BLOWN!
I was visiting a friend in labor. At the other end of the department there was a woman giving birth to twins (boy and girl), so everyone on the floor was excited. And down there, watching her. Suddenly my friend went into hard labor, started crowning. We rang, but no one answered. I ended up delivering identical twins, alone! So, pbbt! to all of them!
My story is one that may make you chuckle but nothing outrageous. In 2021 I woke up with horrible pain in my lower back that came in waves. For some reason getting in my bathtub naked without water in it soothed me. I texted my boyfriend, sister and best friend to ask for help. My boyfriend and best friend came over and my friend called an ambulance while my boyfriend attempted to get me dressed. I barely remember the ride to the hospital but when I finally got relief from the pain meds, I realized I had no bra on (and I am on the larger side) and the tshirt he put on me was a band shirt. The band is a thrash metal band called Overkill. And on the back of this shirt is a giant middle finger with !!FUCK YOU!! written above the finger. They have a song called "We Don't Care What You Say (Fuck You)", hence the shirt. When I had to roll on my side to allow for the best way to get a temperature because none of the other ways was registering, I kept apologizing to the doctor for my shirt. My sister was the only one with me and she chuckled. After getting an MRI I think, it was confirmed I had a kidney stone, explaining the pain in my lower back coming in waves. I was given a hat and instructions and sent home. I was actually able to tell the drummer of Overkill my ER visit story and he and the rest of the band had a good laugh about it...😂😂😂 I have learned since that visit that it is not unusual for my temperature to be as low as 94° without being hypothermic...I am a bit on the weird side...lol...
Funny the thing I remembered from taking Bio some 45 yrs ago is that tapeworms can regrow. WebMD confirmed my memory is correct, but only if the head and eyes are left behind. Also, since they are generally 6' to 22' long, pulling out 2' probably will not do much good. Human dewormer is required.
Yeah that one makes me concerned there may be something going on mentally, either psychologically or developmentally/degradationally. Because that thinking really sounds like something is up that should be looked into.
My first thought was that the poor woman really was doing her best to save it. I'd rather that than the horrid person who left their footprint on the back of the little Cornish hen I bought for my Christmas dinner- I had salmon and swore off store bought meat, and I buried the poor wee thing in the garden while apologising for mankind :(
Former EMT here: I jumped in more than once to help with a violent patient. Keep in mind that we were supposed to clear the hospital within 10 minutes of patient transfer, so, maybe I just ran in a weirder place.
I once got stuck in a hospital elevator for an hour and a half. I was on my way back to my room after having my appendix out (I was 32 at the time) and in a lot of pain. Thankfully I was in and out of wakefulness at the time because I doubt I would have survived being awake for an hour and a half, fresh out of surgery, without pain relief. It was bad enough the times I was awake. The staff stuck in there with me were awesome, they helped keep me calm when I was awake and complained in my behalf about how shitty the elevator maintenance was. I had been informed that the elevators were running on fumes, so to speak, and needed replacing.
I needed a surgery because I was supporting my chin on elbow because I was obsessively playing a game. The first doctor thought I have spine problems so I wasted 2 months on therapy. Turns out at second doctor my muscle got stiff pernamently and was squishing my nerve and if I haven't had surgery it could lead to pernament damage and I could lose touch in whole arm.
I had some really bad tonsil stones like every other week and I could not get them out and it made my breath smell and was not fun. I thought that if I used a crochet hook that I may be able to use the hook to push it out…. The crochet hook ended up getting stuck in my tonsils. I ended up getting a tonsillectomy a little later. Also this was when the ER required masks from Covid. Lucky me did not have to wear one 😂
When I was a little girl, my brother had this fascination with rockets. He was given a small cannon at one time that you put gunpowder in it to light and make a boom noise which he loved firing on 4th of July. He had the bright idea of taking a metal humidor that cigars come in and packed the humidor with something explosive to make a missle. He loaded this packed humidor into the cannon and when his upper arm was in front of the cannon tube, the thing went off and impaled his bicep with this metal humidor. I came home from playing with friends to find his blood all over the patio steps, kitchen floor wondering what had happened. He spent a few days in the hospital recovering and has this big nasty scar on his upper arm. He's lucky it was his arm that was impaled.
Respiratory Therapist here. Once in the ER, I saw a cockroach walk out of a vagina like it owned the place!! Drugs are bad, kids! Someone was found down in a motel, hadn't been seen for 3 days, was found in her room. EMS said it took 20 minutes to get all the cockroaches off her. They went to put the Foley cath in, and when they got access, a roach walked out and I swear it looked at all of us!!! I've seen things crawl out of mouths during intubation but that was the only "cooka" roach I ever saw😮😮
That's horrifying! Wow. More proof being in the medical field requires being able to handle a lot of deeply disturbing stuff. Major respect. Thank you for helping people.
My in-laws, long before they were my in-laws, next door neighbor's cat had kittens. I don't know how many, but one was born dead, so they massaged it back to life. They gave her and her sister to us. They had named her Flower after the skunk in Bambi because she almost had a full stripe down her back. I wish they had left her dead. She was never right, she nursed on 3 of our boy cats until 2 kicked her off completely and the third pushed her to his chest rather than a nipple. I will say that she was the one cat I've ever had that I hated. And I've had a LOT of cats!
back probably about 9 or 10 years ago,i had an appointment at the hospital with my general surgeon to get stitches removed. his office was at the back of the building and on lower level. er is at the front on above level. it was a nice day,just after rain,so i decided to ride my new custom pro kick scooter to get to my appointment. you have to turn down a side street to get to both the turn in to er parking lot and main hospital lot,go past that to reach the turn in to the lot for the surgeon's office. this is all going down a semi steep hill. get down the hill no problem i turn into the parking lot,hit a wet patch of pavement and my back wheel slid out and i went down hard. it was very obvious my wrist was broken. i went to my appointment and the surgeon saw my wrist. i told him what happened and he said,you are going upstairs after this,right? i said yeah,but since i was already here i'd like to get the stitches out. got my stitches out,went up to er,confirmed broken wrist and had fun joking with staff about how atleast i wrecked in the right place.
I was in a unsecured psych unit. Dr. Prescribed about 7 medications at once. Last thing I remember was lighting a cigarette inside the unit while feeling restless and euphoric. 2 days later I wake up in an actual hospital ward. Apparently I had smacked a nurse and then proceeded to urinate in front of everyone. Have zero memory in between
After being in hospital ER short stay for Pneumonia for a couple of days they were not going to release me as on my X-ray they could not see my ovaries. I had to inform them that at the sane hospital the doctor had removed them the week before in a total hysterectomy. You would think this was on top of my medical records that they were reading.
I went to a rural ER where you ring a doorbell and they ask you over into on what your problem is. I was cut, a work injury, and had to wait outside. 45 minutes later, no one EVER came to even LOOK at it. I left, bought first aid supplies at a drug store and went home. Rural America is frightening.
I had a nearly fatal case of hyponatremia. The first ER doc didn't bother to run bloodwork. The next day I had had nothing to eat or drink. I was vomiting up mucus. I had a large bowl with me and filled it 1.5 times before new ER doc came into room.. New ER doc ran bloodwork, had a nurse start an IV, and came back with the nephrologist on call.
I once went into the er after getting a particularly horrendous stomach virus from my 2yr old nephew. I reported that I had finally decided to come in because I was unable to keep anything down for 2days & was concerned about how dehydrated I was, plus my head was killing me. After triage nurse examined me the Dr ordered iv saline full open & pain meds (which when pushed caused my stomach to cramp causing a punched in a sore stomach sensation). After the 1st bag he asks if I need to pee, I answered no so he hung a 2nd bag. After the 2nd bag same question and same answer but this time he asks about my headache. As soon as I respond that it's still killing me he tries to order more painkiller but I shocked him when I plead please no more drugs. He is shocked and confused as to what to do until I walk him to the answer by asking " Dr I haven't eaten anything in 2 days do you think that might be why the headache?" The nurse stifled a laugh. 2 saline bags and a 3rd with glucose added and I was finally feeling just normal people sick and very ready to leave. Even though I still didn't have the urge to pee yet. (My medical friends explained that I waited way too long to get help rehydrating)
When my brother was a baby, mom took him to childrens and he had severe asthma and was super sick, doctors tried to send him home... grandma lloyd who was a gangster went right to the dr and said if you dont admit my grandson i will OWN this fkn hospital! And she did not play. He had menungitis. Needless to say he was admitted and was there almost a month.
During a labor, the patient's ex showed up with his new girlfriend, also in labor. They had the babies several hours apart. The funny thing is... the ex is legally the father according to our states' laws, as they couldn't afford to get a divorce! 😮
I walked into the ER telling them my symptoms front desk they said you look all right you sure you want to go and I said yes cuz it felt terrible from what I had I didn't see the doctor he looked at me because you look fine I don't know what it is but something like that you should be on the floor spread out he lets me go and I'm waiting to be released the nurse walks in and tells me the doctor wants to take an MRI I said okay we get it done 15 minutes later I'm back in the room and he's telling me I got three brain aneurysms and that's a whole nother fucking story
The hospital I walked in for an emergency they did not have a neurological Center the doctor the other hospital was full so they're going to send me a right away I get to the other Hospital there are two surgeons waiting they tell me you're either going to live and start from the beginning you're going to be docile or you're going to die on the operating table after I woke up from the surgery I found out I had three brain aneurysms to twoy clipped the other was coiled instant life after that sucked it felt like I owed something to somebody I always looked looked around ready for somebody to chop me or cut me open it was like that 5 years after and to this day I still cannot sleep to 3 hours at night I feel like I owe something to somebody the once in awhile I get high then I get a low a high from being alive low like I owe something to somebody there are other issues I can't get into right now
⚠️ *TRIGGER WARNING* ⚠️ *Kitten + Human Private Parts - You really don’t want to know, especially if you have c-PTSD resultant from S.A.* *I have to unsubscribe.*
Not an ER story, but my eldest sister was a home health nurse for about 30 years in the LA area. For a while Skid Row was in her territory. She went to visit a patient in one of the residential hotels in that area, a man recovering from a stab wound. She sat in that dirty room, alone with the patient, and changed his dressing while he told her in a low voice exactly what he wanted to do to her. She finished her job, wished him well, and told her boss she was never going back. She had some stories that would have made good television, too.
Oh my God- I think I work with that guy....on the last day before our Christmas break he was describing what he wanted to do to one of the school admin ladies who was setting up for their Christmas party. I kept yelling at him "Grossly inappropriate!" and he kept arguing but that's what he wanted to do, starting with "bend her over". He's a filthy slob and I am a female, and like your sister I think I need a new job......
I was almost sent home by an ER doc who couldn’t be bothered to give me a proper exam. Turns out, my liver ruptured and I was bleeding internally. I would have left the hospital like that if it hadn’t been for a caring and observant nurse who insisted that I stay and wait for the new ER doc who was coming on shift in a few minutes. I did, and ended up needing (among other things) blood transfusions. I don’t think it’s an exaggeration to say that that nurse saved my life.
Hey i got told my ruptured fallopian tube from a ectopic pregnancy that was noticeable long before I needed surgery was muscle cramps and my period when I was pregnant and had come in 3 weeks ago 5 times for the same issues when I knew i was pregnant. Long story short i almost died and havw permanent damage because of that hospital. This is a recent story and I am suing
@ I thought about taking legal action after my experience too. I wish I had. I’m sorry for what happened to you and I hope your suit is successful.
@@blue-simplicity😢😢😢omg I am so incredibly sorry and hope you get every red penny you can from them!
I had a nearly identical experience after chemotherapy and a major surgery with a long recovery. Thank God for those nurses.
Why do people work in hospitals if they don’t believe patients and send them home?? Question I might never hear answers for
I had a heart attack in 1992. That ER stopped the world for me until I stabilized and was sent to a room. Can't speak highly enough of these medical professionals who cared for me that day.
I had a similar experience two years ago. I was bad and was told by the triage nurse unless someone comes in not breathing you are our number one priority right now.
Pity I can't go to your shows. It's a long walk from Australia, 😅
@jennycarter1149 How sad for you.
They can be truly amazing when properly motivated!
@cheriem432 My mother was a geriatric nurse. Medical personnel motivation is intrinsic, based on their love of medicine, their regard for humanity, and their dedication to preserving life.
When I worked as a secretary at a mortuary, I asked my boss who is the mortuary owner/ a mortician if there were any times that the mortuary was sued (he was pretty cautious to the point of purchasing a fireproof safe to store ashes waiting to be collected by families. He read about how a funeral home burned down, losing the ashes. Families of the deceased sued the funeral home for losing the ashes in the fire).
He said the closest time was when a guy was in a car accident and was horribly disfigured. It was so bad that the morticians working on the body strongly advised the deceased’s wife to not see the body (and they’ve seen horrendous things, like severed body parts, brain matter, burned bodies, etc). She insisted, but the morticians warned her that he looked pretty bad to the point of being unsalvageable. She pushed back and still insisted on seeing her husband’s body. The morticians relented, but on the condition that she signs a paper saying that the funeral home advised her not to see the body, she agreed to see it anyway, and can’t sue the funeral home for psychological distress. She signs the paper, sees the body, and (of course) freaks out about the horrendous state of her husbands body. She then tries to sue the mortuary for causing her psychological distress from seeing her husbands mangled body, but her attorney said she doesn’t have a prayer of winning a lawsuit cause she signed the paper agreeing that she was forewarned and can’t sue the mortuary.
Morals of the story: paperwork can save your hide, and when a mortician strongly advises you not to see a body due to the state it’s in cause of the nature of the death, it’s best to follow their advice.
Wow !!!!!!
This should be when you trust the professionals.
A friend of my moms lost her son due to a. accident his grandfather was driving and a bee flew in and the boy was severely allergic. He swatted at it and got it out but ran into a flat bed truck. He was instantly gone. They wouldn’t allow her to see him and I don’t know if they let her. I was twelve and he was 6.
@@maryjane4432 I'm sorry to hear that. How horrible!
I'm the most insistent (stubborn) "I can handle it" person I know. Even I would have heeded the mortician's warning. Yikes!
Tapeworms are segmented and can easily break apart so some of the tapeworm may still be inside. The patient would still need to be treated for tapeworm.
Agree that the patient would need to be treated for tapeworms, as there may be others...
😂I thought my overthinking brain was in pleasured hell when retracting tapeworm was I.D.d. tugging on them will cause the segmentations to separate and grow into another worm
My daughter's husband was convicted of domestic abuse while she was pregnant, so he wasn't allowed to be at the hospital when she delivered due to a restraining order. So his mom took it on herself to be there on his behalf.
My daughter had no contact with his side, so for the last 4 weeks of her pregnancy, the woman called every hospital in the area several times a day to see if she was there yet. Unfortunately we didn't know she was doing that, so we didn't know to tell them not to tell anyone when she DID go into labor. She showed up at the hospital and marched right on into the delivery room. She got right into my daughter's face, and kept contradicting her coach and nurses because; "I just went through this with my daughter so I know how it's SUPPOSED to be done."
Her best friend/coach, and her boss (a close family friend) and I were there with her. But they ended up having to make her boss AND mother-in-law leave to get rid of her mother-in-law. The woman sat out in the waiting room complaining to everyone who came by that my daughter was giving her coach her wrist band rather than one of the grandmas.
She made such a fuss that the hospital changed my daughter's name in their records, and recorded that her son was a girl to throw her off the scent.
But that didn't stop her, she poked her nose into every room in the maternity ward until she found the right room. She pretended to be calm and normal, and my daughter sat and talked civilly to her, until she grabbed the baby and tried to walk out with him. Fortunately my daughter's boss noticed in time and scooped up the baby from her arms and took him straight to the nursery. A nurse who saw it all happening called security, who escorted her off the property.
I KNOW it didn't actually happen in the ER, but it WAS in the hospital.
I hope she wasn’t just thrown off the property but also arrested, she tried to kidnap your grandkid and that attempt should be on her records for life!
@highwaysstar No, she was just escorted off the property. Laws weren't as strict back then (27 years ago), so getting her arrested wasn't happening. It was a fight just to get security to make her leave.
But that doesn't mean there were no consequences. Thanks to her little stunt my daughter refused to allow her to see him. Had she not done that, my daughter WOULD have allowed her to come see him, but not after THAT. She short sheeted her OWN bed.
We're pretty sure she was trying to take him to see his father, since he had a restraining order against him for both her and the baby. It was issued by the judge who convicted him of domestic violence.
Just getting him convicted was quite an accomplishment, the prosecutor was shocked when she heard the verdict. His uncle had been the sheriff for over 20 years, so even getting him ARRESTED was difficult, anyone with his last name had a pretty long leash in that county back then.
At the hospital I work at, labor and delivery are behind a locked door. You have to have approval to get in. Too much risk of infant abduction.
@samanthas2280 The hospital that he was born in no longer exists. The maternity ward there was the SAME one I was born in in the 1950s, and was in the middle of being upgraded, but the new part wasn't finished yet. Had he been born 3 or 4 months later when the new wing was ready, they would have had much more security.
Code pink!
The cat one takes the cake for the most insane story I've ever heard
Many years ago I worked as a medical transcriptionist and heard lots of crazy stories in dictations. A coworker who sat next to me showed me the transcript of a woman with a RAW frozen chicken in her vagina. She was unfortunately, delusional, and expressed a desire to have a baby.
I wish he hadn’t included that one.
Many years ago as a young nurse I was doing peri care on a 98 year old nursing home patient. As I started to clean her she yelled “Johnny - quit licking me down there!!” I was horrified and thought someone would think I was molesting her so I yelled “I am NOT licking you!!”
Same 98 year old patient. Roommate with a 99 year old who used to live next door to her. 99 year old a spinster strait laced schoolteacher and 98 year old had been married 3 times, none was named Johnny! They hated each other. One time 98 year old was crying hysterically. I asked her what was wrong and she said “Johnny got his thing cut off and he bled to death!” I worked there in the late 1970’s. Now all that could be a movie!!
It was a small town!
I spent one birthday in the ER for three reasons. My mom was having severe pain related to pancreatic cancer. My brother had the flu and is type 1 diabetic and in DKA (very high blood sugar, very bad news), and my sister thought she was having a miscarriage but turned out to be very badly constipated. All three were there all day with mom and sister being discharged in the evening and brother getting a week long stay in the ICU. The nurses got used to me running between rooms and even told the next shifts why there was a crazy person bothering all the patients because the ER was very busy and none of the 3 we’re near each other.
Hmmm, . . .DKA - Diabetic Ketoacidosis! Got it!
DKA, in case you're wondering, is Diabetic KetoAcidosis.
I'm an ER clerk, I was there the day after this happened and heard the story. We had police bring a psych patient, search them, then we put them on a hold for psych to see, but not in a locked room, and still in street clothes. They bolted, police were called, and they brought back the patient, who was then put into a locked room since they were now a flight risk. No one re-searched them, or had them change. After a while in the room, the patient removed their shirt, took out a lighter (they had aquired it from someone outside before being returned), and lit their shirt on fire. No one knew which code to call (red for fire, white for violent patient, or silver for weapon) and everyone froze for maybe 60 seconds. Patient then peed on the shirt to put out the fire. Nurses then went in with security to have the patient change and I believe restrained them. Patient claims that was their whole plan, to light the fire and pee it out to intimidate everyone, but the nurses are pretty sure they realized they were in a small locked room with a fire, and when no one immediately opened the door, they didn't want to suffocate.
We were told in the morning debrief if it happens again to call the code red and if the patient escapes again it's okay because the police will bring them back again.
Middle aged man presented to the ER with a 6 inch, metal tipped, Pink stiletto shoe heel stuck in the middle of his forehead. The second I saw him walk through the triage door I had to look down and pretend to read a chart because I knew instantly what happened. Wasn't going to be my patient, so I just stood where I was, within earshot, so I could hear his story. About 2 minutes after he arrived to the room, there was a bit of a commotion at the triage door ... The woman who owned the shoe busted in, demanding to have her shoe back because "they're fucking expensive". Funnier still was that she'd not removed the other shoe so she could walk properly. Left shoe on, barefoot on the right, so you can imagine how she was walking. Add to that was her askew wig from her minor tussle with staff before she busted through the door. Eventually, security got her in the waiting room. Doc went in to see the pt, heard the story, looked at the shoe, thought for a moment, and just pulled it out. Barely a scratch, a significant dent, he declined CT, bandaid applied. While awaiting official discharge, I went into the room and retrieved the shoe, handed it to a tech and asked that he go into the waiting room and return it to it's owner. The tech asked "how will I know who to give it to?", to which I replied, "you can't miss her."
Gentlemen, PSA: Women who dance in gentlemen's clubs wear those shoes for a reason ... as a weapon. Act inappropriately and they will kick you in the face with that heel and honestly, you could lose an eye.
I was attacked in a *newly paved* parking lot in my nice, new stilettos . The attacker grabbed me from behind and lifted me up. Upon being let back down, I stamped one foot onto an instep, something I had learned in a self-defense class. He let go *immediately*, screaming in pain. Since the pavement was still soft, he was literally stuck to the pavement. I jumped out of my shoe and called 911. The police removed my shoe from his foot and gave it back. There was *no blood* on it, thank goodness! Frankly, I was more concerned about my shoe than his podiatric health.
*Wait* - *Metal tipped*? Wow!
Just as a patient: I had Supraventricular Tachycardia, that acted up when I was around 11-12 years old. (I had a surgery when I was 12 that fixed it) Went into the ER during one of the episodes. As we (me and my mom) enter, there's a very drunk lady struggling with the nurses. One of the nurses shouts at us "what's your emergency?" And I answered SVT. They instantly let the drunk go (who darted past us and out the exit doors) and hurried us in. I was like "don't you need to wrangle her" And they were just like "eh she'll be fine"
It was really that incident that made me realize how serious my condition was.
When I was 12 I had my first asthma attack. I was rushed to the hospital two blocks away. In the ER, the nurses kept trying to get me to lie down. I couldn't breathe, so I sure as Hell didn't want to *lie down*! We almost resorted to fisticuffs before they backed off. Jeez!!
My dad's was an ER nurse for many years and has A LOT of stories. I worked in ER registration for many years. The craziest thing I ever saw come in (small town hospital in the 90's no separate entrance for the ambulance) was a guy who was working on an injection mold that was stuck in the open position. They had removed the plate someone didn't do the correct safety checks and just as the guy crawled into the machine whatever was stuck released and the compacted pressurized spring shot out and lodged into his skull right by his eye. They had to cut the spring, stabilize it the best they could and bring him to the hospital because the closest helicopter was over an hour away. There wasn't much they could do for him except keep him comfortable. Did hear that he lived and I think his eye was ok but didn't hear much more than that.
My hands down favorite was my 19 y/o brother. Sidenote: we're huge fans of your stuff! Anyway he was barefoot on our back patio trying to fix our gas powered mower and had the genius idea to put some gas in a pop bottle to get it going and it literally backfired, he burnt his foot and ended up starting a fire on said patio (thankfully it's all concrete). So when he went into the ER he literally told them "I set my f**king foot on fire!" (it was mainly around the side of the arch of his right foot, just 1st and 2nd degree burns). Five months prior to this, he also got an emergency appendectomy the day we were supposed to go to comic-con to meet his favorite voice actor of all time.
Good grief! Poor guy!
Do you happen to be from the midwest? Just curious.
@@cheriem432 Nope, but I could totally see how you'd think that (Southwestern Pennsylvania)
Who was his favorite voice actor?
I think I amused the ER folks when I went in for appendicits and had an appendectomy. I wasn't employed at the time and knew that there was no way (obvs American here) that I was going to be able to afford being checked out, let alone anything else. Thankfully, I hadn't started collecting unemployment yet (b/c that would have been too much money to qualify for the state plan) so was setup with the state health plan by folks in the hospital. Once I knew that was taken care of, I had no problems with being told anything else. I did register some surprise when they were like "So you're going to need surgery...." and I was like "Ok, sounds good!" I think it was about my 12th surgery, so it didn't really cause any anxiety, I was mostly grateful that the symptoms would subside (and that I didn't have to find the tens of thousands of dollars to pay for it!).
My son was singing after surgery... From his appendectomy and by that Thursday.. playing at his band concert.
I had a sudden cardiac arrest in 2019 and the crap hospital i was taken to tried to send me home! Luckily my husband was thinking better than me and said hell no! Ended up spending the night at the crap hospital and then sent to a much better one where i spent 6 days in cardiac ICU, where i found out I'd had a heart attack maybe a week prior (unknown to me!). If id gone home that night, i wouldn't be alive today. SCA has a 4% survival rate! Thanking God I'm still here!
I'm glad you survived! Please tell me this hospital is not in Northern California!
@cheriem432 no southern Ohio
You are so lucky that he stood up for you. My father-in-law had something similar happen. When my husband and I got there in the morning, we arranged a transfer because the hospital seemed incompetent. When he got to the next hospital, they discovered a 99% blockage in the aorta! He should have had an emergency stent that first night. He survived by dumb luck. My dad died from his. They called it a sudden death heart attack. He grabbed his chest, hit the floor and was gone.
Anyone that has worked in a hospital, no matter where they work at, can tell some wild stories. When I was in high school, I worked in the hospital kitchen. I have seen some things that people won't believe. There was a psych patient that got loose and wound up in the kitchen. I will never forget watching him trying to dice up a plastic coffee mug to put it in his omelet.
You are right! I was working in a hospital lab. I was summoned to speak to an African patient who only spoke French. I would ask him about his symptoms in French, and he would respond in English . . .? When the doctor asked the next question in English, he went back to French. I don't know whether he was very confused, or if he was just messing with us, but we found a "system" that worked, and I did a lot of translating for a couple days!
23 years as Navy Hospital Corpsman, 20 Years as a VA LPN.
Q: How do you tell the difference between an oral thermometer and a rectal thermometer?
A: By the taste
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"The hemorrhoid has eyes" 😂😂😂
She must have been very tired, . . .
Here's my story: for way too long, I would have random stomach "episodes." Meaning, my stomach and back hurt so bad, that all I could do is scream. I had to be rushed by ambulance one time because I could no longer breathe normally. I couldn't take a full breath, and it wasn't a panic attack. They checked me, did an xray, and said I needed to follow up with a gastro doc soon because they couldn't find anything. One week later, I'm back with the same issues, only now I'm throwing up from the pain. Different doctor that night, did different tests, and turned out I had a bowel blockage and needed immediate surgery. Had to be rushed to a different city hospital by ambulance, and 27 staples later, I was finally better. Worst pain I've ever had. And I was in the hospital for a week.
😮 On the rare occasions that I have a bit of a struggle on the throne and it's painful, stories like this one haunt me.
Wish mine were that easy to dx. Count yourself lucky
Yikes. Same sort of thing happened to me, was told interstitial cystitis of course, though I never got to even see a doc, just an intern who kept running back and forth. A few weeks later I had the mass removed. Nobody cared that my stomach had gone from 27 inches to over 40.
Turd C-section!
You poor thing! (Boo boo face)
A story from when I was a student. An elderly patient needs a rectal exam. The young surgeon sticks his finger in... and the patient says out loud, "Oh no. Doc, that's the wrong hole!" We try our best not to giggle, but the doctor starts saying, "No, ma'am, I'm a surgeon, I know what I'm doing, that's the right hole," in a really panicked voice. Then the old ER doctor says, "Well, she thinks you do other types of services here." And we all absolutely lose the battle, giggling unprofessionally.
"Two Feet Of Tapeworm" is my new band name
@MachallaNaNaNa Awesome, I'll try to catch you after your European tour! 😄
My mom had a case of tapeworm when I was a kid. We are at a shady hot dog place called no joke, sneaky Pete's. She said it's okay, their food is okay, I said no thank you and ate subway. A few months later, the tapeworms appeared and a month of anti parasite treatments she was good. When we went back to Birmingham Alabama she didn't eat there again.
When I was five I had recurring tonsillitis so had to have a tonsillectomy. When the nurse came in to get blood for typing, she took it from my earlobe and blotted it with a paper towel to make a smiley face on the towel. (My mom wouldn't let me keep it for some reason, even though I thought it was cool)
I have an interesting L&D story. My daughter was the patient.
She went into labour on a Thursday evening but the hospital sent her home because she wasn't dilated enough. She went home and I went to my home in a city 30 minutes away.
TWO DAYS LATER she was still in labour and returned to the hospital. They gave her a shot of morphine and sent her home again! This time I went home with her since I was the only one in our group of 8 with any experience with labour (the baby's other grandmother had all of her k8ds by c section). I'm glad I did.
A couple of hours after getting to her place she and her bf called me into the bedroom. The baby was coming. I called 911.
I was both excited that I may have to deliver my granddaughter but also scared of the prospect. Remember, she had been in labour since Thursday and this was now the wee hours of Sunday morning. I was worried about the possibility of complications. But the EMTs got there before the baby came, which was both a disappointment and a major relief.
The baby was born less than 10 minutes after my daughter arrived at the hospital and less than 5 minutes after the father got in the room. Everyone was fine and there were no complications
Don't you just *hate it* when these things happen?
I'm on level 5 in my ward, at about 11pm. I'm talking to the nurse at the desk and a girl around my age comes up and starts chatting.
She wants to know if i want to go wandering around the hospital with her.
I explain I'm there for severe asthma so no.
She says i can get a wheelchair!
I'm slowly edging closer to the nurse, giving her panicked looks as i have no idea who this person is, and it's night!
Yep, psych patient who slipped her police guard in the ER and magically found me.
Scary! How old were you?
As a patient: When I was 12 I had surgery to correct a heart defect. There was a girl in my hospital room who had the same first name, last initial, birth date, and our Mom's both had the same name. It was weird. The one thing we didn't have in common was she had a pacemaker.
The surgeon came into the room to talk to me about the proceedure....he started to describe hers. He then noticed all the similarities and decided it was too much of a risk he might mix us up later, so he switched me to a neighboring room.
Not medical, but when I met my future husband and were comparing notes, His name is Carl. One of my brothers is Carl. His father is Anthony; so is mine. He has a brother named John, as do I. Our mothers are both Evelyn. *And* we are both left-handed! Is that the Twilight Zone theme I hear in the background?
@@cheriem432 not as crazy as my hospital story, but both my sister and sister in law have the middle name Nicole. And both my mom and mother in law have the middle name Marie
My doctors office had confused me with another patient who had the same name. At one appointment (after being a patient for a couple of years) the nurse was asking how my twins were. I was confused as I had never had twins. She had a shocked look on her face then excused herself. One time confusion sure, fix it and move on but every single time I went in after for an appointment, they had the other woman's file and used it as mine. The office workers would become angry with me for questioning them if they had the correct file, even though they were STILL confusing us. The last straw for me was when I went in for a procedure and I found out it was for the other woman. A young front office girl had the audacity to ask if I still wanted the procedure knowing it wasn't for me!!. I demanded to speak with the manager. Next thing I know the doctor was hurrying out and asked to see me privately and begged me not to sue him, which I didn't but years later now wish I would have. Who knows how many other patients were mixed up and how many other patients received another patient's medications or procedures?
I no longer trust what my file has in it. Other doctors made decisions about my care based on my file even after I warned them what happened. I don't think they believed me
I worked in a hospital for about 7 years, on the same floor as the the ER, but on the other end. Numerous times there was CODE SECURE (hospital police) called because bf&gf were in a wreck and their wife or husband showed up and a fight ensued😂
Nope, don't pull the tapeworm. You have to coax it out or kill it with an antiparasitic. Loose tapeworm segments can lodge in the appendix, the gall bladder, and probably many other ducts. Eggs can actually migrate to behind the eye and into the brain.
I'll remember that just in case...
Coax it out?? With what, a cookie?? 😱
@@Larch_Lane_Puppies😂😂😂😂
That’s completely horrifying
I have seen this happen. No, Thank you!
I'm L&D, my crazy ER story is:
I was doing a new-hire orientation when I received a phone call from my husband's employee that he was bringing in my hubby to the ED with a severely lacerated hand. Had the new-hire watch some modules while I went down to ED to check on hubby. I was assured that he'd be fine as they were taking him to x-ray to make sure there were no metal fragments in the wound.
...I was later taking my new-hire on a tour of our critical access facility, and she got to meet my hubby, covered in blood wearing a Santa t-shirt, in May. He called me when they were done to see if I could take him back down to the machine shop (obviously couldn't), so he had the ED RN call his father-in-law to help him out. Oh the joys of small town living😂 You always know someone!!!
I agree! And feeling safe enough to leave my door unlocked is a great feeling!
Ok, here's my you gotta be kidding me ER story: I am a retired pharmacy technician who worked in the ER as a medication reconciliation technician. I only saw pj's who were getting admitted to the hospital. I go into this room to interview the pt, and the nurse was in there, charting. I was used to hearing lots of weird stuff by thus point. The pt seemed to be under the impression that it was still in the 1970s and that he was in a Grey's Anatomy episode. I was going down my checklist of questions and he pipes up saying that he had taken one of his Viagra pills but none of the nurses had hopped in the bed with him. I just nodded and asked him to verify the strength of his prescription. The nurse, a very nice woman, quickly logged off the computer and walked out of the room. He gave up and just answered the rest of the questions. I kept a very good poker face. I did, however, trip over the nurse, who was doubled over, laughing when I walked out. She asked me how I was able to not react. I was just fascinated that this guy thought that TV was really how life was in the ER. Well, sometimes.
😂😂
Unfortunately, multitudinous people think this. It's sad, really.
@cheriem432 yeah. I mean, I was living with my parents to save money for a house post divorce during my time in the ER. I'd get home, and dad would ask if I had any good stories to tell. I usually did. Some, I couldn't tell. But I could confirm if I was at the hospital when my mom started reading the police portion of the town weekly paper. Dad always made sure to be available for that. My sister yelled at me for not telling her about her son's best friend breaking his arm. I just stared at her for a few, and all I said was HIPAA. She got confused for a moment, and then my BIL told her I couldn't tell her anything. She has never worked in the medical field and doesn't know what it all entails. She did apologize.
In the 90s i was in a fight and my nose got broke i went to er and sat there for hours getting very dizzy i told the nurse at station she handed me a garbage can and told me not to bleed on the floor i went and sat back down i guess i passed out i woke up to hear that nurse getting yelled at for not taking me seriously i guess my nose was so badly broke i had a brain bleed hence the dizziness
You think the kitten story is crazy. Have a look into Mary Toft. The lady who gave birth to rabbits. Couldn't make it up.
When I was three I was getting surgery to put a Gromit in my ear and I was on anaesthesia. I had to be strapped down to a bed and dragged through multiple sections of the hospital while I was screaming HELP ME to all the patients, and my mum had to hold me down
I understood the Theory of Relativity at seven years old, when my younger brother an I had our tonsils out at the same time. When my older brother and I went for shots, he always went first because he was older. Now *I'm* the older one, and I had to go first. Relativity sucks!
I am a fan of the nursing staff at hospitals when my parents were in the hospitals for their final times- those nurses helped me through those times, took excellent care of my parents. and for me- the times I've been in excellent nurses except one that I was worried about her ( I wrote a combo letter: an exemplary regarding all the nurses and a complaint on the one to the hospital CEO)
This was why I went to the ER when I was newly married and just 18. I was a very heavy sleeper and apparently my husband had sex with me while I was sleeping and he didn't know I was on my period. We were moving and I had to be taken to the ER because my stomach hurt and my mom thought I was miscarrying. I was so embarrassed when the male doctor pulled out a nasty tampon that smelled horrible. I am a light sleeper to this day and I am 72 but single for a long time. Never again will I go through that.
@sharon I am so sorry you were assaulted by your then-husband while you slept. What an awful experience to live through. 🤗
Wow, yes, that’s assault! It doesn’t matter if you were married. You weren’t awake to consent! It’s disturbing that he assaulted your limp body!
I've heard oh frank be used a southern form of surprise
My son decided to put new brake shoes on his car. During the process the jackstand collapsed and the brake rotor landed on his foot. That was the last time he tried to fix his own brakes.
A genuine crazy cat lady!
My sister worked at an internship at the local hospital over the summer. One patient she saw was a guy in his early 30’s that was shot in the back a few years ago. He didn’t take care of his gunshot wound, and because so the gunshot wound grew into a huge open wound where the flesh is gone, diseased and you could see the spine. My sister had to clean the stinky wound on a daily basis. It was so big that the doctors said amputation of the whole hips region and below still wouldn’t save him. Poor guy wants to live so badly and is scared to die, but because his wound is so big, it’ll likely end up killing him. 😢
Yet another example of "It's never a good idea to put off treatment just because of fear."
What's your opinion of a nurse sitting you in a waiting room chair, when you're crying from a broken back, and severe stenosis, when the file already says that it broke that night? Am I too demanding, or was she as hateful as I felt she was? I really look forward to your opinion. Love your stories ❤
That kitten one--I couldn't finish the video.
Why
@@aaronjames3228 uh because it was horrible? Did you not watch
Was helping a nurse insert a foley cath into a very confused elderly lady. She didn't understand what we were doing or why. So, she fought us. Her daughter was in the room with her trying to calm her down and cooperate. We ended up with one medical staff on each limb. And the nurse trying to place the catheter. The patient stopped fighting and was calm. So, we released her arms. The nurse was finally able to place the cath. The patient reached down and patted the inserting nurse on the head and said "Be good to it Honey. It's been good to Me." We lost it. The daughter had this very shocked look on her face and yelled " MOTHER! What are you saying"!
About the tapeworm; one of the ways a tapeworm reproduces is by letting bits of himself fall out of the rectum into the ground, so it can be eaten by the next host. Of course, the tapeworm wants its bit to fall on the ground, not in the water, so maybe that's why it retracted?
My uncle delivered his ninth chicld, third son, at home on the bedroom floor after the hospital sent the parents away because mommy was wrong - she wasn't in labor. It's her NINTH kid guys!
With my fourth, and in hospital, the nurse and my midwife were chatting away at the foot of the bed, I had a blanket on, and I said "hey, I think the head is crowning". I guess some of us just get on with it without a fuss :)
9th baby ❤❤❤ bloody well done
But remember that.if you fart or sneeze it will be flying out 😂😂😂😂 😂😂
in Finland in hospital they take the temperature either from ear or forehead 😮
I was discharged with a Hangman's Fracture, after a motorcycle accident, where I went base over apex about ten times at 65 mph. You'd think they'd have looked harder with that history.
Best thing, it was diagnosed about twenty years later, by my Neurosurgeon who took one look at the x-ray and went, "Fuck no! I'm not touching that with a ten foot pole! "
I concurred looking at the report.
About five minutes later I said, "So they sent me home? When I could have nodded and ended up quadriplegic?"
His answer?
"No, you'd have been dead!"
"The clue's in the name of the fracture, "Hangman's", you fuckwit!" I thought! Talk about not thinking things through, that and the human ability to deny death, when he taps on your shoulder.
The guy ate his----I BEG YOUR PARDON?!
If anyone has seen idiocracy - the scene where he gets the thermometers mixed up lives in my head rent free.
Re tugging at tapeworms: Winding the exposed part of a worm around a stick (Ex: pencil or tongue depressor) allows for slow rotation of stick to apply tension while pulling out worm ... which some have hypothesized is whete the caduseus medical symbol comes from. ⚕️🤔
"I wouldn't even know how to pull that thing out" is wild and true.
so i'm an EMT. we got a call for a possible arm fracture. when arriving at the given address, the patients daughter opened the door and led us to her mothers bedroom. there sat a tiny old woman, well into her 80s. she wore a long sleeved sweater, but still i couldn't help noticing a very concerning bulge in her right humerus. it was immediately clear, that it was a complete fracture.
however, the old lady was completle unbothered and guesturing around with her right hand... i asked her if she was in any pain and wether or not she wanted some analgetic, but she said it was no big deal.
talking to the daughter, it turned out she fell 2 days ago and therefore running around for 2 entire days with a completely fractured humerus. i was completely MIND BLOWN!
You better call Nurse John and tell him Mr. Smith is in the ceiling again 🤣🤣 8:58
I’m an ER nurse practitioner and I’ve delivered six babies in my ER career of 37 years.
I was visiting a friend in labor. At the other end of the department there was a woman giving birth to twins (boy and girl), so everyone on the floor was excited. And down there, watching her. Suddenly my friend went into hard labor, started crowning. We rang, but no one answered. I ended up delivering identical twins, alone! So, pbbt! to all of them!
Yeah don't just pull stuff dangling out of a butt unless it's on purpose, you could rip something further up stream.
What
Luckily evolution has designed tapeworms to detach at one of the segment boundaries, if pulled too hard. (I bet you always wanted to know that!)
My story is one that may make you chuckle but nothing outrageous. In 2021 I woke up with horrible pain in my lower back that came in waves. For some reason getting in my bathtub naked without water in it soothed me. I texted my boyfriend, sister and best friend to ask for help. My boyfriend and best friend came over and my friend called an ambulance while my boyfriend attempted to get me dressed. I barely remember the ride to the hospital but when I finally got relief from the pain meds, I realized I had no bra on (and I am on the larger side) and the tshirt he put on me was a band shirt. The band is a thrash metal band called Overkill. And on the back of this shirt is a giant middle finger with !!FUCK YOU!! written above the finger. They have a song called "We Don't Care What You Say (Fuck You)", hence the shirt. When I had to roll on my side to allow for the best way to get a temperature because none of the other ways was registering, I kept apologizing to the doctor for my shirt. My sister was the only one with me and she chuckled. After getting an MRI I think, it was confirmed I had a kidney stone, explaining the pain in my lower back coming in waves. I was given a hat and instructions and sent home. I was actually able to tell the drummer of Overkill my ER visit story and he and the rest of the band had a good laugh about it...😂😂😂 I have learned since that visit that it is not unusual for my temperature to be as low as 94° without being hypothermic...I am a bit on the weird side...lol...
Funny the thing I remembered from taking Bio some 45 yrs ago is that tapeworms can regrow. WebMD confirmed my memory is correct, but only if the head and eyes are left behind. Also, since they are generally 6' to 22' long, pulling out 2' probably will not do much good. Human dewormer is required.
I've never heard anything worse than the kitten story. Do I laugh or run screaming into the night?
Yeah that one makes me concerned there may be something going on mentally, either psychologically or developmentally/degradationally. Because that thinking really sounds like something is up that should be looked into.
There’s a pretty famous story of a woman “giving birth” to rabbits in 1726-Wikipedia Mary Toft for more info
Se was definitely some kind of sick. No one well would do that.
At least it was already dead. She only hurt herself.
My first thought was that the poor woman really was doing her best to save it. I'd rather that than the horrid person who left their footprint on the back of the little Cornish hen I bought for my Christmas dinner- I had salmon and swore off store bought meat, and I buried the poor wee thing in the garden while apologising for mankind :(
Former EMT here: I jumped in more than once to help with a violent patient. Keep in mind that we were supposed to clear the hospital within 10 minutes of patient transfer, so, maybe I just ran in a weirder place.
😂😂😂 "A VET?!?!" I'm dying
Oh. My. Gosh. 😗 These are disturbing and yet I keep coming back for them.
I once got stuck in a hospital elevator for an hour and a half. I was on my way back to my room after having my appendix out (I was 32 at the time) and in a lot of pain. Thankfully I was in and out of wakefulness at the time because I doubt I would have survived being awake for an hour and a half, fresh out of surgery, without pain relief. It was bad enough the times I was awake. The staff stuck in there with me were awesome, they helped keep me calm when I was awake and complained in my behalf about how shitty the elevator maintenance was. I had been informed that the elevators were running on fumes, so to speak, and needed replacing.
At 9:32 the ceiling psycho.
I needed a surgery because I was supporting my chin on elbow because I was obsessively playing a game. The first doctor thought I have spine problems so I wasted 2 months on therapy. Turns out at second doctor my muscle got stiff pernamently and was squishing my nerve and if I haven't had surgery it could lead to pernament damage and I could lose touch in whole arm.
Writers pull much of their material from real life.
Some people are truly mentally sick!!
Oh Stevioe... you're forgetting ear thermometers
I had some really bad tonsil stones like every other week and I could not get them out and it made my breath smell and was not fun. I thought that if I used a crochet hook that I may be able to use the hook to push it out…. The crochet hook ended up getting stuck in my tonsils. I ended up getting a tonsillectomy a little later. Also this was when the ER required masks from Covid. Lucky me did not have to wear one 😂
When I was a little girl, my brother had this fascination with rockets. He was given a small cannon at one time that you put gunpowder in it to light and make a boom noise which he loved firing on 4th of July. He had the bright idea of taking a metal humidor that cigars come in and packed the humidor with something explosive to make a missle. He loaded this packed humidor into the cannon and when his upper arm was in front of the cannon tube, the thing went off and impaled his bicep with this metal humidor. I came home from playing with friends to find his blood all over the patio steps, kitchen floor wondering what had happened. He spent a few days in the hospital recovering and has this big nasty scar on his upper arm. He's lucky it was his arm that was impaled.
Respiratory Therapist here. Once in the ER, I saw a cockroach walk out of a vagina like it owned the place!! Drugs are bad, kids! Someone was found down in a motel, hadn't been seen for 3 days, was found in her room. EMS said it took 20 minutes to get all the cockroaches off her. They went to put the Foley cath in, and when they got access, a roach walked out and I swear it looked at all of us!!! I've seen things crawl out of mouths during intubation but that was the only "cooka" roach I ever saw😮😮
That's horrifying! Wow. More proof being in the medical field requires being able to handle a lot of deeply disturbing stuff. Major respect. Thank you for helping people.
I had severe back pain my local Gp said take x2 paracetamol and lay down...nope straight to ER ended up with cauda equina and surgery.
My in-laws, long before they were my in-laws, next door neighbor's cat had kittens. I don't know how many, but one was born dead, so they massaged it back to life. They gave her and her sister to us. They had named her Flower after the skunk in Bambi because she almost had a full stripe down her back. I wish they had left her dead. She was never right, she nursed on 3 of our boy cats until 2 kicked her off completely and the third pushed her to his chest rather than a nipple. I will say that she was the one cat I've ever had that I hated. And I've had a LOT of cats!
The dead kitten lady oh my fxckin god lol
back probably about 9 or 10 years ago,i had an appointment at the hospital with my general surgeon to get stitches removed. his office was at the back of the building and on lower level. er is at the front on above level. it was a nice day,just after rain,so i decided to ride my new custom pro kick scooter to get to my appointment. you have to turn down a side street to get to both the turn in to er parking lot and main hospital lot,go past that to reach the turn in to the lot for the surgeon's office. this is all going down a semi steep hill. get down the hill no problem i turn into the parking lot,hit a wet patch of pavement and my back wheel slid out and i went down hard. it was very obvious my wrist was broken. i went to my appointment and the surgeon saw my wrist. i told him what happened and he said,you are going upstairs after this,right? i said yeah,but since i was already here i'd like to get the stitches out. got my stitches out,went up to er,confirmed broken wrist and had fun joking with staff about how atleast i wrecked in the right place.
Dead kitty story, literally is a crack up 😂
I was in a unsecured psych unit. Dr. Prescribed about 7 medications at once. Last thing I remember was lighting a cigarette inside the unit while feeling restless and euphoric. 2 days later I wake up in an actual hospital ward. Apparently I had smacked a nurse and then proceeded to urinate in front of everyone. Have zero memory in between
After being in hospital ER short stay for Pneumonia for a couple of days they were not going to release me as on my X-ray they could not see my ovaries. I had to inform them that at the sane hospital the doctor had removed them the week before in a total hysterectomy. You would think this was on top of my medical records that they were reading.
I went to a rural ER where you ring a doorbell and they ask you over into on what your problem is. I was cut, a work injury, and had to wait outside. 45 minutes later, no one EVER came to even LOOK at it. I left, bought first aid supplies at a drug store and went home.
Rural America is frightening.
"Oh, Frank..." ROTFLMAO
It would’ve been funnier if she said the patient’s name was Marie.
Not me thinking of all the kitty jokes may have come from the stillborn kitten removal 💀
I just can't believe that the kitten rebirth thing didn't work. I wonder what went wrong. 🤔
10:09 A bit of a Mary Toft! 😂
Cat lady clearly has levels.
That crazy cat lady :O
I had a nearly fatal case of hyponatremia. The first ER doc didn't bother to run bloodwork. The next day I had had nothing to eat or drink. I was vomiting up mucus. I had a large bowl with me and filled it 1.5 times before new ER doc came into room.. New ER doc ran bloodwork, had a nurse start an IV, and came back with the nephrologist on call.
I once went into the er after getting a particularly horrendous stomach virus from my 2yr old nephew. I reported that I had finally decided to come in because I was unable to keep anything down for 2days & was concerned about how dehydrated I was, plus my head was killing me. After triage nurse examined me the Dr ordered iv saline full open & pain meds (which when pushed caused my stomach to cramp causing a punched in a sore stomach sensation). After the 1st bag he asks if I need to pee, I answered no so he hung a 2nd bag. After the 2nd bag same question and same answer but this time he asks about my headache. As soon as I respond that it's still killing me he tries to order more painkiller but I shocked him when I plead please no more drugs. He is shocked and confused as to what to do until I walk him to the answer by asking " Dr I haven't eaten anything in 2 days do you think that might be why the headache?" The nurse stifled a laugh. 2 saline bags and a 3rd with glucose added and I was finally feeling just normal people sick and very ready to leave. Even though I still didn't have the urge to pee yet. (My medical friends explained that I waited way too long to get help rehydrating)
What the kitten!😂😂😂
When my brother was a baby, mom took him to childrens and he had severe asthma and was super sick, doctors tried to send him home... grandma lloyd who was a gangster went right to the dr and said if you dont admit my grandson i will OWN this fkn hospital! And she did not play. He had menungitis. Needless to say he was admitted and was there almost a month.
Those poor cats with their lunatic owner. 😢
I love your videos and this one was great!
Glad you enjoyed it!
During a labor, the patient's ex showed up with his new girlfriend, also in labor. They had the babies several hours apart. The funny thing is... the ex is legally the father according to our states' laws, as they couldn't afford to get a divorce! 😮
I walked into the ER telling them my symptoms front desk they said you look all right you sure you want to go and I said yes cuz it felt terrible from what I had I didn't see the doctor he looked at me because you look fine I don't know what it is but something like that you should be on the floor spread out he lets me go and I'm waiting to be released the nurse walks in and tells me the doctor wants to take an MRI I said okay we get it done 15 minutes later I'm back in the room and he's telling me I got three brain aneurysms and that's a whole nother fucking story
Actually he said I have a brain aneurysm the three are coming later if I have the time to spell check my shit if you guys want to hear it
The hospital I walked in for an emergency they did not have a neurological Center the doctor the other hospital was full so they're going to send me a right away I get to the other Hospital there are two surgeons waiting they tell me you're either going to live and start from the beginning you're going to be docile or you're going to die on the operating table after I woke up from the surgery I found out I had three brain aneurysms to twoy clipped the other was coiled instant life after that sucked it felt like I owed something to somebody I always looked looked around ready for somebody to chop me or cut me open it was like that 5 years after and to this day I still cannot sleep to 3 hours at night I feel like I owe something to somebody the once in awhile I get high then I get a low a high from being alive low like I owe something to somebody there are other issues I can't get into right now
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The last one ☠☠☠☠
⚠️ *TRIGGER WARNING* ⚠️
*Kitten + Human Private Parts - You really don’t want to know, especially if you have c-PTSD resultant from S.A.*
*I have to unsubscribe.*
The pizza reference killed me 😅!
That is BONKERS!!!
3:48
Pretty sure that would be called self-cannibalism? IDK.
I want to see you do a dramatic reading of “Swamps of Dagobah”
In Australia we have the forehead thermometer or (more commonly) an ear thermometer
9:04 Mr. Smith! 😂
Not an ER story, but my eldest sister was a home health nurse for about 30 years in the LA area. For a while Skid Row was in her territory. She went to visit a patient in one of the residential hotels in that area, a man recovering from a stab wound. She sat in that dirty room, alone with the patient, and changed his dressing while he told her in a low voice exactly what he wanted to do to her. She finished her job, wished him well, and told her boss she was never going back. She had some stories that would have made good television, too.
Oh my God- I think I work with that guy....on the last day before our Christmas break he was describing what he wanted to do to one of the school admin ladies who was setting up for their Christmas party. I kept yelling at him "Grossly inappropriate!" and he kept arguing but that's what he wanted to do, starting with "bend her over". He's a filthy slob and I am a female, and like your sister I think I need a new job......
9:41 that psych story sounds like one that happened at my moms hospital lmao