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“Imagine The Smell”: 17 Weirdest Objects Doctors Had To Remove From Their Patients
Article created by: Gabija Palšytė
The human body is pretty amazing. It’s tough, adaptable, and capable of incredible things. Though not always in ways you’d expect.
Because for some people, “testing the limits” means inserting objects that really have no business being there.
That’s when medical professionals step in—and sometimes, even they’re stunned by what they find. From forgotten gadgets to Buzz Lightyear himself, here are some of the wildest discoveries doctors and nurses have had to deal with.
Take a look below… just maybe not while you’re eating.
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#1
Not a nurse, but a medic. This was awhile ago, but it was a paper prescription stuck to the patient’s back. He had been given a prescription for lidocaine cream for some type of back pain. The instructions were, “apply to affected areas for pain relief.” So he did.
My partner hid behind the clipboard laughing so hard, tears were pouring out of his eyes. I had to stand there with a straight face until I finished assessing him and triaged him to the BLS ambulance for transport. Poor guy, he was so nice, just couldn’t understand why it wasn’t working.
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#2
20+ yrs ago as a baby nurse assisting with septic work up on pt who had to be cut from his trailer d/t morbid obesity. Myself & 3 others lifting pannus to get a cath in & a tv remote was found it did not fall it was adhered to his skin causing a wound. He was such a kind man & jokingly said "I've been looking for that!".
#3
A rather large pumpkin spice candle in one of those hourglass shaped jars. To this day the process boggles my mind, and it was back in the day of x-rays on film. I had a copy made, without identifying personal information of course, and now have one of the most interesting lampshades you've ever seen :).
#4
Toilet brush... The handle/stalk (don't know what it's called in ebglish) had broken off and the dude couldn't get it out. The brush part I mean.
#5
Sunflower seed shells.
Apparently if you devour an entire bag without removing the shells and you're shy about pooping in public for 5 days you develop a sunflower seed shell bezoar (blocking mass of foreign material).
The patient had to go to the OR for disimpaction under anesthesia (EUA).
#6
A friend of mine is a doctor, and it has to be a tossup between a pound of potatoes "lovingly shaved" as he puts it, to resemble eggs, and a totem pole of barbie heads superglued together.
#7
My first sem lab tutor told us a story of how she found a mushroom growing under a patient’s breast.
#8
Had a friend that was an ER doc who described a patient coming in who had a rather large fish inside of him. The problem was that the fish have been inserted while it was frozen. Once it thawed out from the warmth of the body the fins expanded and surgery was needed to remove it, or the spines would have tore the guy up on the way out.
#9
In nursing school, a half eaten biscuit tucked away under a tiddy. Granny was saving it for later 😂.
#10
One guy came in, he had a beard trimmer stuck up there. But that's what he wanted. He got off on "being caught" and having it removed. We've seen him a few times before for other things.
#11
An entire 20oz bottle of Dr Pepper hidden in their skin folds….while looking for their glasses….that were also in their skin folds.
#12
A couple of years ago, when I was an ER Tech , another tech and I were cleaning and bagging a body. When we rolled the body, a bunch of change rolled onto the floor, we were both speechless because the person was naked... and we had just cleaned it...
#13
Found a slice of pizza (cheese side up) stuck to a patients back
another time I found a gabapentin tablet in a morbidly obese patient’s abdominal fold. It left the entire pill imprint into his swollen skin, including the numbers and letters. We only do gabapentin capsules so it was from home and he had been there for weeks. Originally I thought it had been missed for that long, but then after multiple more admits we realized he was getting meds from home and stashing them.
#14
Nothing like getting a text from your mom (nurse) to tell you about the other text she got from a friend (ER nurse) that not one but two guys came into the ER with gerbils up their butts. They thought coming in a half hour apart would make things less suspicious. Yes, my mom and I have a weird relationship.
#15
Peanut butter and jelly sandwich beneath a massive underboob that was so moldly you could smell the yeast from five feet away.
#16
When we were changing and cleaning a sweet old man with dementia for the night my collegue who normally was quite stone faced gave up a scream. There were a full set of dentures in the diaper. Not too bad, but the sight of teeth down there were quite unsettling.
#17
I found a patient’s phone in her folds once.
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