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  Her legs were so swollen with cellulitis   Nice Hippie Heart Gypsy Soul Shirt  and ulcers everywhere. Funny enough after some diuretics and antibiotics she was fine. Never took meds her whole life and after discharge, she just had to take a daily Lasix. OBGYN here. Had a pregnant patient who chose to deliver at home. Well, it turns out she was having twins, and while baby one came out just fine, the second one decided to stay in for a while longer.  Had a tall lanky patient come into urgent care with chest pain and shortness of breath after smoking weed. Literally textbook for a pneumothorax (collapsed lung). I asked him how long this has been going on and he said 2 days. I thought there was no way the guy walked around for 2 days with a collapsed lung, but sure enough, after the X-ray, we diagnosed him with a severe pneumothorax. Straight to the emergency room for a chest tube Buy it:    Nice Hippie Heart Gypsy Soul Shirt

  I read medical records for a living.  Good Trump, I Take Full Responsibility It’s Not My Fault Shirt   Older man develops a sore in the cleft of his butt cheeks, ignores it. He ignores it until he can't sit anymore and must lie in bed on his stomach all day. He gets weaker, to the point that he can't get out of bed alone. He and his wife just keep thinking it will pass. Eventually, she's half-carrying him to the shower and bathing him while he stands. The wound is massive, now, and black. Chunks of it fall off in the shower. He doesn't care anymore, he just wants to go back to bed. His wife complies.  Finally, when he becomes minimally responsive, she brings him in. Three weeks later, he dies, never having left the hospital again.  I remember reading that, wondering if she had a low IQ, or if she wanted to kill him. How can you watch chunks of a person fall on the shower floor and still think things'll get better on their own?  I’m a nurse, I had a p...

  He sits down on the dirt and takes them off,  Pretty Debate 2020 Donald Trump Lincoln Biden Quote Shirt  revealing that his feet were gangrenous and eaten down to the bone. He wasn’t in any pain because it ate all his fucking nerves. I was floored and was unsure why he (or anyone else in his group) didn’t tell me immediately. Wild. Hope he’s alright.  I had a baby back in January and so my hormones around June were still all screwed up. One morning I woke up and had to pee. And then again. And again. And again. I never had a UTI before but I figured it was that, but then suddenly the sensation stopped. As a mom of three, I shrugged it off but downed a bottle of cranberry juice anyway. No signs of anything after that. Two weeks later. Father's day weekend. That Saturday I started having the pee sensation again. And the next day I was incredibly miserable. My hus and made me go to a clinic and as it turns out, I had a major infection in my bladder. Buy it:  Pret...

  Turns out that the guy was not a psych patient at all and that he truly did have a family-size bottle of shampoo inside of him....he shoved it up his ass to get off and it not only got stuck inside his colon but it had perforated it as well. When he  Nice What Are You Hiding – Presidential Debate 2020 Joe Biden Shirt  started talking again he said that it had gotten stuck over a week prior to his arrival to the ER but dealt with the pain by drinking a lot of alcohol  All of the ER staff couldn’t figure out how this guy managed to stave off an emergency visit let alone how he was alive...my guess is that by avoiding food and only consuming alcohol for a week he managed to decrease the motility in his gut and the size of the shampoo bottle tamponaded off internal bleeding. Needless to say, he had to have emergency surgery to extract it!  I was working at a CBP facility assisting migrants with emergency/screening healthcare needs. I get this patient who can’t be ...

  Maybe this will get buried in the comments,  Funny No You Cannot Pet My Dog Shirt  but I still remember a woman who had a small bump on her labia. she was so ashamed she let it go for a year period it turns out it was not an STD but malignant melanoma. By the time I saw her it was already in her lymph nodes. She was dead in a year someone  used duct tape on an abdominal wound from a screwdriver that he kept just reinforcing with more duct tape. He also left the screwdriver in place so "the wound would heal around it and I could just take it out without bleeding out". I saw him on Sunday and it happened on a Friday. Nothing came from it other than I felt like I was on a hidden camera tv show because it was so stupid.  Former ER nurse here. Several years ago I had a patient that came in by EMS labeled as a psych patient because he told them that he had a family-size bottle of shampoo inside him. He refused to talk to anyone after arriving, but let me do an exam ...

We checked her blood hemoglobin,  Funny Lovely Bulldog Tattoo Pug Life Shirt  it was only 4 g% (should be at least 10-11 by the end of pregnancy to avoid complications).  She was looking very pale, thin, and sick. You could see she absolutely couldn't tolerate the labor pains. She couldn't push. We didn't have the facility to give an epidural. She demanded us to deliver the baby via a C-section, but this wasn't possible as it increased the chances of her losing more blood, while her hemoglobin was already low. Also, her age by itself made the pregnancy a little risky  government-funded blood banks run on the kind stranger who donates blood and we had to call up every other hospital to get the blood from her blood group.  Note: She eventually did give birth and went into a lot of complications and was shifted into the ICU. Note 2: the reason she kept having children even though they're unable to take good care of them was that all her first four kids were girls a...

  I'm a doctor from a third-world country and  Happy Willie Nelson Guitar Roll Me Up And Smoke Me When I Die Shirt  spent a year interning at the government-funded hospital that provides free or subsidized treatment for the poor. Most patients were poor and reported very late to the hospital, especially if it were a woman who's in question. There seem to be too many posts about gangrene, so I'd talk about something else instead.  We provide state-funded insurance for all those living here. Women are actually paid a small sum of money if they show up for antenatal visits regularly and then a little more once they complete their kid's vaccination. We also actively promote sterilization.  This was during a month-long posting at the labor ward. We had to do 12-hour shifts every day, which was very tiring, considering the huge number of patients who would show up.  One day, a 45-year-old woman came with labor pains. It was her fifth child and she hadn't taken a ...

  I had a guy come in saying  Nice Stop The Spread Go Big Red Shirt  his back was hurting so bad that he couldn’t stand anymore. This man was extremely pale and couldn’t be touched without crying. Trying to start an IV was difficult because he was so dehydrated. He said he had never seen a doctor before nor been to the hospital, which is pretty rare for a man in his 50s. Sure enough blood work comes back and his lab work is all over the place. His hemoglobin is crucially low (4.0, we administer blood when it’s below 7).  So we start giving blood to the guy, while the doctor orders CT scans. Many of us felt this guy was in horrible shape despite being able to speak and being very oriented. CT scans come back and this man is ridden with cancer that has metastasized to his bones and several other organs. He didn’t have much longer to live at that point. I felt terrible for him. This was in the ER so I didn’t get to follow up, but I assume that outcome wasn’t positive fo...

  He claimed that she was "walking the week before" he brought her in. As an aid, I helped admit the patient with the nurse and do the skin assessment. We turned her over and there were bruises all over her back, there was an 8cm stage 3 pressure sore on her coccyx, her heels were mush, and she had fecal matter caked under her fingernails.  Good Santa Snowman First Christmas With My Hot New Husband Shirt  Anytime someone touched her she screamed, "no you don't have to do this!" "Get him out of here!" "Please stop" etc. Upon questioning the son he claimed to be his mother's only caregiver and she was doing wonderful and talking and eating for the past 2 weeks up until "the other day". The state was called on that one and she came back 3 more times before passing away in the ICU on a ventilator.  My spinal surgeon told me a story where a guy hurt his back but decided to tough it out. Lived alone. His kids eventually came to visit ...

  Not an MD or nurse but when I  Good Mookie Of The Year Los Angeles Dodgers 2020 Champions Signature Shirt  was receiving treatment for my myopia at a clinic there was this little girl who fell down on some wires which pierced through her face and one of her eyes and it was all bleeding. So her parents thought it'd be fine to just wash her eye and press some cotton pads would do the trick and waited a whole freaking day to bring her to a hospital so as a result poor girl lost one of her eyes. Doctors got so mad that they started to yell at the parents asking "what the hell is wrong" with them.   Some nurses and patients were crying for her, she was a cute little girl... I was shocked by the level of neglect. I mean poor girl had a freaking bleeding eye and they were like "I have to work today so we'll see a doc tomorrow... " And that was their actual explanation, freaking work. Why people even make kids if they're not going to prioritize them  hate to a...

  Not a doctor or a nurse,   Nice Morfar Claus Santa Christmas Family Matching Shirt  rather a Paramedic. We got called for an unconscious person. As my partner and I walk through the door, we’re convinced there’s a corpse in the other room because of the foul odor. Turns out our pt was not dead, only just extremely septic due to the fist-sized necrotic sore that formed on the top of their head. I mean you could see the skull.  Definitely should have called sooner.  Obligatory not a doctor, but when my little sister was 4/5 years old, my mum took her to the doctors for an eye infection. They told her she had conjunctivitis and gave her meds, sent her on her way. Her eye kept weeping for weeks and just wouldn’t get any better, so in the end my mum took her to the hospital and asked to see a specialist, who was super angry he’d been called in just to look at a case of conjunctivitis.  Turns out, my sister had stabbed herself in the eye with a pair of sci...

  He called his parents who lived about 2 miles  Nice Every Great Auntie Says The F Word Floral Shirt  away at the time to come over and be with the kids and carried me to his truck and rushed me to the ER. I actually had a UTI (i have never had one before and never looked at the color of my pee) the uti spread to my kidneys and my liver was starting to shut down. They rushed me to the ICU where I stayed for 8 days, they tried giving me morphine but I just threw it right back up, children's Tylenol was the only thing that worked with my system. They said if He would not have checked on me when he did I would have died in my sleep. I was 23 at the time, 7 years later I fucking study the color of my piss every time like a nut!!  Dental hygienist here. I see a lot of bad cases due to many Americans not having health insurance. I was taking x-rays on a patient once when suddenly one of her lower front teeth fell into her lap!! She hastily picked it up and put it BACK INT...

  Not a doctor, just a customer from a grocery store.  Hot Sweet Happy Thanksgiving, Ugly Thanksgiving Sweater Shirt  I used to go there every day at the same time to buy bread, and the owner of the place usually worked around that time of the day, one day he got a nasty cut on his hand, he was old, so he just dipped his finger in chlorine, from a recipient they used to clean the cutting tables. Anyway, some days later he got a dirty cloth over the wound, it was really pain full for him. Anyway, 2 weeks or so later he wasn't working, and one of the guys there told me he was in the hospital. The next time I saw him, he lost his hand to severe necrotic damage.  Not a Doctor or Nurse but I was the Patient. I assumed I had the flu, high fever, shakes, throwing up. I was taking dayquil and Nyquil in 12-hour intervals hoping that would help. My youngest was only 2 mos old at the time so my husband took a few days off work to help. He came into our bedroom around 7pm to che...

  The story was that the guy was out mowing  Good Dance Shine Sparkle Merry Christmas Shirt  his lawn when he began having chest pain. He stopped mowing, went inside, and called his wife who was at work. He told her he wasn't feeling well and wanted her to know. He then sat down in a living room chair, took out a notebook, and started journaling his symptoms. The two sentences he wrote that I'll always remember are:  "My chest hurts. It's hard to breathe." "I think I'm having a heart attack." His wife tried calling him back after an hour and couldn't get him on the phone. After another hour she called 911 to request the police do a welfare check. They found him in that living room chair next to his journal, dead as can be.  Literally, this guy lived a block from our ambulance station. We hadn't had a call all morning until we responded to his house   He died a block away from me and my ambulance. I was just mucking about the station. Had he j...

  Over the next three days, he got debited twice   Good Black Lives Matter That Is An Eternal Truth All Reasonable People Should Support Dallin H Oaks Shirt  from both knees up to damn near his belly button sparing only a little bit of his perineal area. Amazingly with antibiotics and very diligent care with a very good team (my trainers, not myself. I was doing rotations in PA school. I knew, and still know, mostly squat) he survived. but he continued to scoff and badmouth us through the entirety of the time that we took care of him as if we had inconvenienced him by saving his life.  I'm late to the thread here but have to write this. I'm a 22yr paramedic and I once responded to a cardiac arrest where a police officer had called us after responding to a welfare check where she found a man unresponsive.  We worked with the guy but it was quite futile. The cop had started CPR after calling it in so we continued for a half-hour or so with no response to trea...

  BUT my number one "why didn't you  Original  Expensive Skin Shirt  come in sooner?!" moment was getting a call from a patient who had broken their forearm  two months ago  and never followed up. I got them scheduled, they no-showed their appointment. Rescheduled, they no-showed. Second, reschedule, they arrive with a very obvious deformity to their arm due to the fracture healing incorrectly. If they had just come in, it wouldn't have been an issue at all. Blows my mind that they went almost three months without care.  My dad was a doctor. This is somewhat relevant to the rest of the story.  In HS, I played basketball. One day at practice, I was going in for a layup and got knocked by a teammate as I went in and ended up going into the wall under the baseline pretty hard with my hand in a really awkward position as it hit. It HURT.  I finished practice barely being able to pressure the ball. I went home, had my dad take a look because I fel...

 T hey were severely overweight  Nice Property Protected By High Speed Wireless Device Gun Shirt  and said we were making up stuff about their feet because “you know I can’t see them and you just didn’t want to touch me!”) It was so sad because I pleaded with them, offering to drive them to the ER myself but they refused and left. Never came back ): I still think about them and hope they overcame that initial reaction and decided to get it checked out (or did it as a “fuck them, they lied” way) to discover we weren’t making fun and they quickly got the treatment that saved their feet and their life.  I work in Orthopedics, a very common occurrence is a patient is told to follow up within the week (we like to see fractures between 5-7 days) and the patient will call on the 6th day and say "I broke something and need to be seen tomorrow". This is frustrating because we very rarely have the ability to get a patient the next day, and if they had called the day of or the ...

  When I was in massage school, we did low-cost  Nice Radiology Christmas Shirt  massages to get our practice hours in (think like $15-25 an hour) so we saw various parts of the community.  Once I saw a client who had a smell during the intake, and once I pulled back the sheets to do their feet I was slapped in the face with it. Pushed forward, and did an initial stretch and press on the feet... And out poked some worms/maggots from between their toes and on the pads of their feet.  It was horrifying And when I recommended (urged) them to go to the ER about it, they got offended like I was making fun and left.  Triple edit: since I was asked a few times... yes I immediately concluded the massage (per the protocol and also compassion) and grabbed an instructor so we could have that discussion with the client. We brought them into a private room to discuss the health concerns, but the individual was mortified and that emotion was channeled into contempt, accu...

    Sometimes cancers are still   Hot Blessed To Be Called Grandma Summer Shirt  curable after metastasis (I think testicular cancer is), but most aren’t. By the time there’s distant spread, many cancers are terminal.  Metastatic" cancer is when cancer that originates from one place goes to another. They're called "metastases" and commonly end up in the lungs, brain, liver, and bones. Its a late-stage condition so your outlook is bleak, which is why the earlier commentator said "unfortunately"  Its the most curable type like 99% at stage one. 90% stage two which is lymph nodes. 75% or higher for stage 3 I think?. No stage four. I had stage one s. I had to have surgery and then ten weeks of iv chemo Maggots in the abdominal/genital skin folds of a morbidly obese woman who refused to let her daughter take her to the doctor until the smell was so bad the neighbors complained Saddest, grossest patient issue I ever saw. And she was impatient for weeks, with...

  A lot of times young men will come in complaining of a cough that won’t resolve. Usually, the doc will ask if either testicle is swollen and the guy will say  Good Blessed To Be Called Nana Summer Shirt   “well yeah, now that you mention it.” They won’t come in for a swollen testicle but they will come in for the cough. Unfortunately by that time, cancer has already metastasized to their lungs.  Edit: Ok guys, please touch your balls on the regular! Especially if you’re a young guy. Don’t be shy and speak to your doctor if something feels amiss.  Hold your penis out of the way and examine each testicle separately. Hold your testicle between your thumbs and fingers with both hands and roll it gently between your fingers.  Look and feel for any hard lumps or nodules (smooth rounded masses) or any change in the size, shape, or consistency of your testicles.  Yes. Many cancers metastasize to the lungs, like osteosarcoma, colon cancer, and breast can...

  That leg is necrotic, you'll lose the leg if not your life" and the guy goes "Ha, that's what my doctor back home said too. But the leg feels fine, I'd know if it was dying. You are wrong. Besides, I'm not gonna ruin my vacation by seeking medical treatment. ",  Happy Luxury Go Jesus It’s Your Birthday Christmas Shirt  which left me wondering why he asked in the first place. He goes to sit at the bar and over the course of the evening both the nurse and the doctor leave the table to try to get this guy to understand that he may not have 10 days until he's back home, that he needs to have this looked at NOW without success.  pretty sure that if that guy made it to a hospital, they asked themselves that question.  I’m not in medicine at all and even my potato battery of a brain knows that if your skin is turning black that is a DEFCON 1 emergency  cousin is a Pathologist Assistant and was telling me how about how she had to dissect a testicle that was...

  This nearly happened to my MIL.  Funny Coronavirus Covid 19 Virus 2020 World Tour Shirt   My FIL was her caregiver and after he passed, she tried to make a go of living alone. We were 60 miles away, as was my wife's brother. We had a daytime caregiver coming in to cook and clean, but it became clear in very short order that she needed more care than that. It was a relief for all involved when we finally got her into a nursing home.  I was sitting in a hostel with an emergency nurse and an emergency doctor that had just found out that while they worked on different continents, they did similar work. We were happily chatting along and this older guy walks in. He overhears that they're in the medical field and comes up to see if he can ask a question. He shows them his leg, that's got large black spots on it everywhere below the knee. Both the nurse and the doctor look at it and immediately go "you have to go see emergency services. Buy it:  Funny Coronaviru...

  Mobility is a huge factor in senior health.  Nice Basketball Find Your Strong Shirt  Lose that and things can go down quickly. Watch for loose cords, unstable rugs, worn down shoes. Clear their yard of leaves; this time of year is   horrible   for older people as things are getting slippery. I am currently sitting and waiting on my 4th patient who has fallen and broken something to come out of their OR. It’s not just the shower and the dog that trip people up.  Like I said, everyone is different but you have to pay attention and not be afraid of addressing something and “making a big deal” out of something you know is off. No, talking about how Grandpa’s breath smells like death and his teeth are caked in breakfast&lunch&dinner is uncomfortable  and you don’t want to hurt his feelings, but it could be he forgot or he just isn’t caring anymore. Things that can be hard to talk about  the  need   to be talked about with old folks....

  I hate this because half the time,  Nice Birthday Boy Jesus Christmas Shirt   the family is trying their best and simply overwhelmed with the level of care their family requires, then sometimes they visit mama once a day and say “you good?” and act like they’re infallible.  It’s a complex answer that’s different for everyone. From what I’ve seen as a nurse, it’s the little things.  Not taking a shower every day, finding them in the same clothes they wore the day before, losing weight because they don’t feel like eating/the food they eat is garbage, medication mishaps (forgetting to take them, taking too many/not enough).  Keep an eye on their teeth, their skin, their hair. Listen to what they say (“I think I stepped on something the other day, but I looked at I couldn’t see anything ” 3 days later you notice a large sore on the bottom of their foot where they couldn’t bend over to see).  Watch their elbows and heels, the place right above their butt ...

  Had a patient brought in by her son who “took care of her,”  Good Wolf To My Son Never Forget That I Love You Life Is Filled With Hard Times And Good Times Shir t  when she arrived at our unit I performed a skin assessment...took off her socks and found a fallen off the gangrenous toe? Seems fake and I wish this was but it was by far the nastiest thing I’ve witnessed. Son said he had no idea when his mother’s foot became “that bad.” No words.  Our x-ray prof told us this happened to her once too when she removed a person’s sock to X-ray their foot. Hasn’t happened to me yet tho.  When I read gangrene or diabetic foot or osteomyelitis in the medical history for any foot Xrays, and the patient has socks on, I don't take the sock off. The image is just fine with the sock on. The smell usually tips you off regarding how bad it is. Also if it looks wet. I don't want to remove the socks and find out that chunks of skin are going to come off with the sock. Buy it: ...

  People who have had a stroke are (obviously) not thinking right. When my grandad had one, his biggest concern was not wanting to go to the hospital before he put his socks on. He slowly put on one sock, got the other sock, and put it  Good  Ho Ho Ho Merry Christmas Light Shirt  on the same foot. He realized that was wrong and took the socks off. Then he started again, with the same result. He repeated this multiple times until we had to beg the ambulance dudes (who were standing there watching) to just take him regardless of if he said he was ready or not.  At the time I thought he was doing the sock thing because he was just so confused. But now I wonder if he was doing it because he knew he had two socks to put on, but didn't recognize the other foot as his.  My mom had a stroke browsing in a store with my dad and me. I just happened to go looking for her and found her sitting on the floor next to my dad; she was a very dignified woman and would never s...

  So I talked with the patient for a little bit and ran into the same problem. So I touched the patient's good leg and asked her if she could feel that. She said yes.  Happy Sorry I Missed Your Call I Was On My Other Line Vintage Shirt  Then I touched her bad leg and asked if she could feel that. She said no. I asked her if she could tell me why she couldn't feel it, and she replied that it wasn't her leg. I knew she needed to be transported, and that reply was all I needed. I told the medics that they could transport her because obviously her mental acuity was impaired to the point that she was unable to make informed judgments on her own care. I made sure they knew that that was the way to write the report, too. And once we started to load her up, she provided no resistance at all, which is pretty much what I expected. Never got any word back on how she did, but also never had that decision come back and bite me in the ass. Buy it:  Happy Sorry I Missed Your Call I...

  This happens all the time...  Hot Delicate Christmas Health Care Worker On Duty Reindeer Nurse Funny Shirt  People have a big stroke at home and can't move an entire side of the body. They wait several days thinking it's the flu or something. Nope, not the flu... Just a large clot in the brain that could have been reversed if you came in right away.  In the case of a stroke, they might also not be able to even recognize the severity of the symptoms or even be able to appreciate that the paralyzed body parts are their own.  I was an EMS supervisor for a while, and once ran on a patient with classic stroke symptoms--sudden onset one-side paralysis. She was still able to talk, though, and insisted that she neither needed nor wanted to go to the hospital. That was why I, as the supervisor, had been called. The paramedics on the scene, good paramedics, knew they were treading that thin line between necessary transport and the patient's stated desire to not be trans...

  Former medic here.  Top Cool Merry Christmas Quarantine Dabbing Santa Shirt  Called a patient who had cut their leg while chopping wood about a week prior and now it was really itchy. Old gentleman, didn’t drive, lived alone. Got to his house, unwrapped the ungodly swollen leg to find that he’d tried to superglue the wound closed and maggots had commenced to growing inside. The itching he was feeling was the writhing maggots under his skin.  Guy came in with a dead leg. Waited until it turned black and then decided to head to the ER. They tried an angiogram to open up blood flow but it was way late for that. Guy had several clots in his lungs and legs. Undiagnosed atrial fibrillation. He couldn't believe we were going to amputate, kept asking me what else I could do.  Go back in time a week ago and come in. Kinda around when it turned blue.  It's amazing a person can have a dying leg, blood clots(which I get he might have never noticed that one) plus a he...

  Imaging guy here. I have a million of these,  Nice Attractive Christmas Medical Assistant On Duty Reindeer Nurse Funny Shirt   I work with vascular patients and wounds. Had a guy whose foot was completely broken sideways at the ankle. he had it still wrapped from when he left the hospital. He would use the stumpy part to move around in his wheelchair and leave little blood sponge prints on the floor.  Another guy with bad ankle and foot wounds decided to stop going to wound care and was afraid to take the wraps off even after his foot started to stink. By the time I saw him his skin had kinda liquified.  Earlier on in my career, I saw a guy with necrotizing wounds to both legs that had eaten to muscle in multiple places below the knee. I asked him how long they looked like that and he said about two years. The next time I saw him he was bilateral above knee amp.  Stump wounds. Just... Stump wounds.  Take care of your feet people. If you're diabe...

  I'm going to be downvoted for this - I am not a   Nice Merry Christmas 2020 Quarantine Toilet Paper Xmas Tree Shirt  Trump supporter, I'm also a Canadian. But this question was kind of a trap. There is no way for her to answer this honestly without being criticized. I bought fucking Heely's during quarantine- does that make me tone deaf? Ivanka is an out of touch spoiled brat, but we already knew this. A sad  reminder of the sub you’re posting on, where only opinions that relate to the overall political bias will be recognized. I’m somewhat aligned with that position too, but it doesn’t mean anything when I try to approach things with an open mind.  I despise Ivanka, but is it so horrible to learn to play guitar a couple hours a week? I'm sure everyone complaining has spent every waking hour for 8 months working or fighting for freedom or whatever they think she should be doing.  What’s wrong with doing something normal like learning an instrument du...