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Originally Posted by Ford Prefect
My wife is an RN and has worked a fair bit of ER. This kind of thing is actually not that uncommon. Among the things she's seen or heard about coming out of people's butts are shampoo bottles, incandescent light bulbs, earth worms, various fruits and vegetables ... I'm sure she's mentioned other stuff too but I forget. The usual story is that the person fell on whatever object got shoved up his/her butt. Not sure how you'd fall on a light bulb and get it shoved up your butt without breaking it.
Apparently the incandescent light bulbs are a bit tricky to extract because if ER staff try to pull them back out they tend to shatter, causing the patient a certain amount of discomfort for awhile whenever something either exists or enters their whazoo. I guess the method they use to extract light bulbs is to somehow removed the threaded metal base and then inject the bulb full of cast plaster. Once that hardens they can safely remove the bulb.
I guess another thing that ER staff see somewhat is guys come in who have been in MVAs and they're wearing ladies lingerie.
People are so weird.
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I had a room-mate who was a Nurse in Vancouver's West End. Every weekend, there was a surge in "foreign object removals". Tubes of mousse, bristle brushes, and even a softball. Seems a lot of people "slip and fall while nude", thus getting impaled by household items.
One poor feller was too embarrassed to go the hospital to have the tube of mousse removed. He waited a few days, but when the pressure became to much, he finally went for the procedure. When the tube was removed, the operating theater was sprayed with excrement.