Monkeygirl has a post about finding Chinese food detritus found in an obese person's skin folds and it reminded me of one of my favorite stories from when I used to work on the floors, before I came to the ED.
We got a lady who was admitted because her many decubiti needed debriding. She had several of them, and was so fat, she was as wide as she was tall. I took all of her clothes off and prepared to dress and document all of her wounds.
Part of her abdomen and one of her breasts were greenish; I thought she had a fungus or something. I started wiping it off and followed it up to a skin fold, where I found . . . a quarter, a dime, and a penny--that was oxidizing and was turning her skin green. There were perfectly round sores underneath each coin. The smell was lovely too. Yum.
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I feel bad for laughing, but I have this bizarre ability to lose the thing I was JUST HOLDING...so far, that pen/my keys/the TV remote haven't turned up embedded in my person, but I wouldn't be shocked if one of these days...
We found two dead cockroaches the other day in a lady's fat folds (aka fupa). Disgusting!
I often have no idea what most of the terms mean in your blog.
I don't have any experience in any sort of medical environment, outside of having to turn my head and cough.
But I find a great humor in all of the insane stories, but MORE humor in the ways that you describe the characters within your world.
Way better than ER.
Cousin Jimmy
Thanks, cuz!
xoxo
GGRN
I can honestly say that if I were going to make a list of some of the most sikening things I've ever read (and I have a pretty good memory for these kinds of things), this would top the list for a good while. It just so happens I was eating dinner while reading this too, and have considerablt lost my appetite. I have to commend nurses, I could never do it.
One has to wonder how something this grotesque could occur. Just, how? I could only assume major depression, chronic fatigue resulting from another medical ailment? It defies any sense of reason.
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