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1. "A household was successful a precise atrocious car mishap connected an interstate. The car was banged up beauteous badly. The occurrence rescue got the household out, and the ma realized her kid and her car spot were gone. They searched the mishap country and recovered the babe and bearer astir 75 ft down the road, upright, with the babe happily watching them. No harm to the kid astatine each from being ejected. I admitted the kid for observation, but they didn't person a scratch. The full household was ok; the ma and the older kid were banged up badly, but thing serious. It was the astir unthinkable happening I person ever seen successful the ER."
2. "ER caregiver here. We had an ambulance travel done the doors with a pistillate holding a newborn, looking precise shocked. The 1 medic who I cognize mouthed, 'She didn't cognize she was pregnant,' to maine arsenic they went by. About 5 minutes later, we heard, 'Code Pink to OB,' which means the OB squad amended get up determination now! EMS came backmost down a spot later, looking shocked. I asked what was up. He said, 'That Code Pink? She had ANOTHER BABY successful there.' How bash you not cognize determination are 2 heads, 4 arms, and 4 legs wrong of you??? Unimaginable."
3. "We got a telephone for an incoming trauma, and EMTs connected the vigor told america it was an impalement injury. Here's the story: A 20-year-old kid got caller skis for Christmas. It was astir 2 a.m., a fewer days later, and the streets were covered successful respective inches of caller snow. So, the kid strapped connected his caller skis; his dada hopped successful the car and towed him on done the snowy streets astatine 30 mph. Big surprise, the Toyota mislaid traction and started to skid. The skier, seeing what was happening, didn't privation to beryllium anyplace adjacent the car and bailed. Of course, helium was flying and needed to stop, truthful helium aimed for a large heap of snowfall connected the curb and slammed into it. Turns out, it was not a heap of snow. It was a heap of operation debris, covered by a bladed furniture of powder. The kid came into the trauma bay with a five-foot agelong portion of alloy rebar entering his thigh, exiting astatine the groin, past re-entering his abdomen astatine the crest of the pelvis and exiting again astir 5 inches later."
"The kid was afloat oriented and awake, and too the rebar skewer, was uninjured. After the survey and imaging were complete, the trauma attending made the determination to caput consecutive up to the OR. I enactment successful the ER, truthful everything from determination connected successful was secondhand.
Three firefighters scrubbed into the OR, and they brought a peculiar saw that tin chopped the alloy without creating sparks and igniting the oxygen. The saw instantly malfunctioned, and the trauma surgeons decided that alternatively than chopped the metal, they'd chopped the patient. They 'de-roofed' the rebar, fundamentally slicing the apical disconnected the tegument tunnel, and lifted the barroom out.
This five-foot alloy spike missed each bone, each large humor vessel, and each organ, not to notation missing his gentleman's sausage. The kid spent 2 days successful the infirmary and walked retired connected his own."
5. "Two guys were doing tract care. The hedge trimmer broke, and they didn't privation to spell backmost different time to decorativeness the hedge, truthful they figured they could clasp the tract mower up and get a consecutive borderline that way. They hoisted it up by holding conscionable nether the rim, and erstwhile they turned it on, it chopped disconnected each 4 of the fingers connected some hands for some men, conscionable supra the 2nd knuckle. They gathered the fingers up successful a container and went to the ER. The occupation was that they enactment each the fingers successful the aforesaid bag."
6. "My dada is an ER doctor, and my ma is an ER nurse. Well, 1 time this 90-year-old woman conscionable flatlined, and aft 7 minutes of trying to resuscitate her, helium called it. He went to archer each the household assembled that their grandma had passed distant erstwhile a caregiver sheepishly came retired of the country and asked him to spot something. He walked into the country to find this woman sitting up and talking arsenic if thing had happened."
"The household was capable to person 1 past goodbye earlier she really died."
8. "I worked arsenic a portion caput successful the ER of a level 1 trauma halfway successful Florida successful the '90s. When the telephone came successful that we had a gunshot coiled to the caput en route, we acceptable up everything and had the full squad acceptable to outpouring into enactment arsenic the ambulance pulled up to the bay. Shock didn't adjacent screen it, arsenic the EMTs wheeled successful an older antheral sitting up connected the gurney, alert and talking. We thought this was the incorrect guy, and the gunshot coiled unfortunate went to different hospital. Nope, that antheral enactment a .22 pistol to the apical of his head, reasoning helium couldn't miss. The small slug was lodged betwixt each the ventricles and missed everything. I wouldn't person believed it if I hadn't seen the X-ray with my ain eyes."
10. "One older woman, 1 younger woman, and 1 younger antheral travel successful for the aforesaid symptoms: burning sensation connected the genitals. Examine them — each person chlamydia. I asked what the woody is. Turned out, the younger pistillate was the wife, and the older pistillate was the wife's mother. They some had enactment with the younger man, and they were each good with that. Weird household dynamic."
11. "My woman was a CNA for a portion successful Post-Operation. She utilized to travel location with each kinds of grisly stories. My favourite was a feline who got castrated portion pitchy skiing. Dude was retired pitchy skiing and crossed a tuber's enactment without knowing it. He caught his junk connected the line, and it castrated him, dick and balls afloat stop. Anyhoo, this dude proceeds to food his fucking junk retired of the stream helium was in, thrust his pitchy skis home, enactment his bundle connected ice, telephone an ambulance, and telephone successful to enactment the adjacent day. They managed to reattach the full kit and kaboodle, and it worked conscionable fine."
12. "Once successful the ER successful agrarian Australia, I spent a full displacement looking aft a antheral who'd been attacked with a machete. The communicative went that determination was a chap connected the tally from the constabulary who'd jumped a obstruction into his backyard. The antheral had conscionable changeable up immoderate meth and thought that the feline successful his backyard represented a menace to his three-year-old daughter, truthful helium grabbed a machete and went retired and whacked this different feline successful the caput with it. The on-the-run feline reached up, pulled the machete retired of his head, and started going to municipality connected the meth man."
"Meth antheral ended up with hundreds of heavy lacerations each implicit his body. Head, arms, torso...You could spot fat, muscle, and bone. On-the-run feline chopped his tendons; meth antheral couldn't determination immoderate of his assemblage anymore. Yet someway helium made it to the infirmary conscious and ok. The lone arterial bleed helium had was if helium flexed his near wrist; suddenly, there'd beryllium a spurt of blood.
It was conscionable a coppery stink of humor each done the exigency room. Meth antheral ended up waiting for an aerial ambulance for astir six hours, past got lifted out.
On-the-run feline ended up with a depressed skull fracture, but was truly good successful the end.
13. "We had a young miss successful her teens, obsessed with swallowing thing that was metal/metallic. It was not overmuch of a astonishment to spot her each fewer months, having to retrieve a spoon oregon a brace of scissors from her stomach. Hell, this benignant of intelligence wellness contented is much communal than radical mightiness think. What shocked the hellhole retired of maine was the precise past clip she came in, we recovered an full acceptable of cutlery, 40 bobby pins, 3 metallic watches, and weirdest of all, a metallic necklace with the engraving 'I yet did it.' It inactive freaks maine the fuck retired erstwhile I reminisce."
14. "An big antheral diligent was brought into the ER by his member due to the fact that helium 'didn't look right'. He was conscionable sitting successful his recliner watching television, but not doing overmuch else, and lone minimally interacting with others. Still, helium was conscious, ambulating without issue, etc. The radiologist work the CT and said, 'Well, that's astir apt due to the fact that he's got a slug consecutive done his brain.' Sure enough, upon further examination, he'd been changeable successful the caput (random gunfire/stray bullet) and had fundamentally been lobotomized."
"He died soon thereafter."
21. "I was coming disconnected a 24-hour displacement successful the ICU erstwhile I was an intern. A pistillate had met up with immoderate friends for book survey and decided to walk the nighttime astatine her friend's place. At immoderate constituent successful the night, the person checked connected the woman. Upon opening the door, she recovered the woman, 2 items, and a decent magnitude of blood. I'll intermission the communicative for a infinitesimal for you to see what those 2 items mightiness beryllium earlier continuing."
"The 2 items adjacent to her were her eyeballs…both of them, implicit enucleation. She had forcibly removed some her eyeballs. No different objects were found. We deliberation she did it with conscionable her fingers.
The paramedics brought her eyes with her, successful small saline bottles. You could spot the optic nervus coming retired the back, and the small attachment points of the extraocular muscles that assistance crook the oculus successful antithetic directions were disposable arsenic well.
A wide liquid was seen moving down her cheeks. I initially thought the liquid was tears, but it was cerebral spinal fluid leaking retired of the small holes successful the backmost of the oculus socket wherever the optic nervus enters the brain.
Turns retired she had schizophrenia and (we believe) work a book transition that mentioned thing astir 'if your eyes origin you to sin, you should gouge them out' (or thing similar)
She survived, but was unsighted for the remainder of her life."
22. "When I was a pupil nurse, I had a placement successful insignificant injuries. We had a diligent travel successful who had superglue successful his eye. Completely covered. He said it squirted up astatine him erstwhile helium utilized it. When I was unsocial with him, helium admitted that helium had confused it with his oculus drops and squirted it straight into his eye. While examining it, I held the eyelashes unfastened to unfastened the eye, and they each came disconnected successful my hand. I was shocked that this mistake was truthful easy made."
24. "Doctor here. I erstwhile had a psychotic diligent leap successful beforehand of a lorry; helium beauteous overmuch broke each rib connected his close broadside and collapsed his lung. Here's the thing: helium didn't die, and helium really managed to locomotion home, wherever helium past sawed disconnected some of his ain feet and partially his close hand. He was lone recovered due to the fact that the neighbour recovered 1 of the feet successful his garden."
"Never underestimate what idiosyncratic volition bash successful extremes of intelligence health."
25. "Well, the grossest happening I've seen truthful acold has been a diabetic antheral with necrotizing fasciitis and a ridiculously uncontrolled maggot infestation of his close leg. Dude's full close little extremity beneath the genu was achromatic and smelled similar a rotting carnal carcass, with uncounted maggots boiling astir inside. You could perceive them from the doorway to his room. After helium went upstairs to the ICU, we had to adjacent that country for aggregate days and person it sprayed for bugs due to the fact that determination were thousands of flies successful there."
26. "A antheral intentionally threw his manus down connected a railroad way arsenic a bid passed 'to wage for the sins of his childhood.' When we got to him, his thumb and scale digit had been severed, and his mediate digit was flat. I'm talking Looney Tunes paper-thin flat. His ringing and pinky had been degloved, truthful helium had Skeletor's fingers adjacent to that Looney Tunes mediate finger. The feline was sitting determination with what remained of his manus arsenic if helium was conscionable sitting successful immoderate shadiness nether a tree. No screams, nary grunts, nary wincing, nary anything. The feline was chromatic cold. We asked him if helium was successful immoderate pain, and helium casually said, 'worst symptom of my life,' and continued to look consecutive ahead."
27. "My member dated a nurse. She assisted successful a lawsuit wherever an unhoused feline had been wearing jeans, and erstwhile they wore out, helium conscionable enactment a caller brace connected implicit the apical of them, and past again later, truthful helium had 3 pairs of jeans on. He ne'er took them off, ne'er bathed unless helium jumped successful a water oregon whatever, and his limb hairs had grown done each 3 sets. They had to surgically region them."
28. "A feline carted his testicular wide into the session with a cart (he was a farmer). It was benign connected pathology: a uncommon stromal-type tumor. He had been wearing a sling to transportation it each this time, until it got excessively large for the sling, and present helium couldn't enactment with the cart successful the way, and 'the woman told him helium looked ridiculous.' I had to support my poker look connected during the full visit."
30. "I chopped into a guy, and the bones successful his assemblage were green. Like a moss green. Turns retired he'd taken a batch of tetracycline [an antibiotic for a assortment of bacterial infections, including acne, UTIs, chlamydia, and Lyme disease] arsenic a kid, and that's what did it. Absolutely wild."
32. "I had a diligent that was intubated and sedated (can't retrieve the reason). His woman slept successful his country astir the clock. One night, 1 of the nurses caught her masturbating. We kicked her retired for the night, but she came back. When the diligent woke a fewer days later, helium said, 'What the hellhole is she doing here? That chick has been stalking me!' We kicked her retired for the 2nd time. For good."
36. "A mates had twins. The babies were astir 34 weeks old, truthful not ace premature. One boy, 1 girl. Mom wanted to breastfeed due to the fact that she had done truthful with her 3 different children. She was possibly precocious 20s, aboriginal 30s? So we got her acceptable up successful a rocking seat and pulled the curtains to hole to get Baby Boy retired to effort first, arsenic helium was awake and his sister wasn't. Dad was lasting down Mom's seat and said, 'I accidental I tin stock with you, boy. But don't get utilized to it.' Turned out, Dad often 'assisted' Mom with initiating pumping/hand expression. Many of america had to locomotion distant erstwhile we heard that."
37. "Ex-med surg nurse. This young pistillate (in her aboriginal 30s), whom I took attraction of, started doing heroin erstwhile she was 11 successful her leg. When she came to me, her limb was necrotic to the bone. No skin, lone achromatic bony holding the ft and thigh together. She refused amputation. She started walking astir the floor, and it snapped off. She near against aesculapian proposal aft yet agreeing to the amputation."
38. "Once, I had a pistillate who kept complaining of a 'tingling' sensation successful her back, but alternatively of getting it seen, she kept scratching the country to relieve it, but to nary avail. She was yet brought successful arsenic an exigency due to the fact that she had the large thought of gouging retired the country utilizing a saw and industrial-strength chemicals (no 1 knows wherever she got them from). So present she has a monolithic crevice moving on her backmost that, erstwhile she turns over, you tin spot consecutive wrong her, vertebrae and all."
39. "I led a Code Blue, trying to revive idiosyncratic from a cardiac arrest. Resuscitative efforts were prolonged trying to scope the patient’s family, but we couldn't get a clasp of them, and we conscionable couldn't get this guy's bosom started again. After immoderate time, everyone was successful statement to terminate the resuscitation. We held a infinitesimal of silence, and afterward I did my decease exam. It includes listening to the bosom and lungs and confirming the diligent does not person a pulse. No pulse, heartbeats, oregon lung sounds; the diligent was unresponsive. I officially pronounced this antheral dead. I helped the nurses cleanable up the scene, which took astir 20 minutes oregon so. At 1 point, I was tucking the patient's limb arsenic we were astir to enactment him successful the assemblage container erstwhile I thought I saw the covers implicit him move. I stepped back, evidently a small freaked out. I pulled the covers backmost and saw this man's thorax emergence and instrumentality a tiny breath. And past different breath. And past another."
"I enactment my stethoscope to his chest, and successful the midst of each the unsuspecting nurses talking astir me, I thought I heard heartbeats. I had different caregiver listen, and she confirmed it too! We instantly brought the diligent to the ICU, wherever helium unluckily ne'er woke up oregon recovered. Still, though, I'll ne'er hide astir sending a unrecorded assemblage to the morgue."
40. "A idiosyncratic had an accident. When their apparel came off, determination was a hook screwed into their sternum. This idiosyncratic had a concave thorax from commencement and couldn’t respire good lying flat, truthful they utilized the hook and immoderate apparatus to bent from successful bed, to grow the ribcage. Said they self-inserted the screw years ago, and it worked great."
41. "A feline got some of his legs caught successful a nutrient grinder. They were demolished to ribbons, missing up to his mid-thigh. He managed to service crawl himself retired of the instrumentality and tourniquet the legs himself portion screaming until a coworker recovered him. He survived and, from what I heard, really did precise well."
42. "I person worked successful a infirmary pharmacy for implicit 15 years. I've seen a batch of stuff. I've seen a batch of radical who were a batch of colors. I don't mean ethnicity. I mean bluish tegument of choking, cherry tegument from c monoxide poisoning, a assortment of hues for antithetic ailments. The 1 who made maine double-take was a idiosyncratic who politely asked maine for h2o successful the hallway. My backmost was to them, I was resuppling a medicine cart, and my go-to reply for that is always, 'Let maine cheque with your nurse.' (I americium not allowed to conscionable get anyone water/food due to the fact that they mightiness beryllium connected restrictions.) I turned around, and the woman was greenish. I was startled. I aboriginal recovered retired she had crab successful the liver and a buildup of bile was causing her to beryllium greenish-yellow."
43. "At a children's hospital...it was the parent who freaked retired implicit something. Not rather definite what, but she was upset. So, similar astir rational upset people, she took disconnected each her apparel and was screaming astatine the apical of her lungs astir however the doctors were fucked-up. She's stomping astir the ward conscionable starkers. Naked screaming woman isn't a happening sick kids should beryllium seeing, truthful information came and took her into an isolation country (that's utilized for atrocious psych cases). Whenever idiosyncratic approached the reflection window, she'd dispersed her legs, constituent astatine her vagina, and go, 'What bash you deliberation of this?' She got taken to an big psych unit. Not definite what happened to her oregon her kid."
44. "An older woman came by with a canine covered successful bumps (flea bites?) and said we should dainty her dog. I specified to her that this was a hospital, not a vet's office. Even if I could dainty the dog, I don't cognize if the medication/doses are right, and I could marque it worse for her dog. She storms retired of the ER, saying however useless doctors are. Fuck you, lady."
46. "ICU caregiver here. Some radical archer maine they don't retrieve thing aft waking up from a coma. Some radical tin perceive what's going connected but are conscionable incapable to respond. Some radical person delirium, and it feels similar a constant, scary dream. I had 1 diligent who was not technically successful a coma, but had delirium. He was waiting for a lung transplant. I admitted him into my country 3 hours aft a pistillate died, and we removed her body. The delirious antheral asked me: 'Who's that pistillate lasting by the window?' 'Why is determination a dormant assemblage here?' 'Can you delight inquire the squad of radical to permission truthful I tin sleep?' (No 1 was determination but him and me.) And assorted different periods of talking to 'other radical successful the room.'"
"He yet got his lungs and healed 100%. Afterward, helium told america each sorts of things that helium thought were going on. Says it felt similar existent life, but helium knows it was conscionable a dream. Many radical really get PTSD from being successful an ICU patient."
47. And finally, we'll extremity connected this agelong 1 that's worthy a read, I promise: "I was a nonmigratory successful the ER. In an concern accident, a feline was utilizing a board; thing happened, and it got changeable backmost astatine him. This 3-inch-wide committee entered done the extremity of the guy's chemoreceptor and exited done the little close skull, close astir wherever the cervix and skull meet. Initially, this feline had been seen astatine immoderate small agrarian hospital, and immoderate implicit fable of an ER doc had gotten a breathing conduit successful and past shipped him to america with the committee inactive in, arsenic nary 1 dared region it. When helium got to america astatine the trauma center, they’d rigged up this chaotic stabilization rig to support the committee successful place, but determination was inactive a bully 3 feet of committee retired of the beforehand of his look and a possibly three-inch splinter poking retired the back. His look was swollen to each hell, and looking astatine him, you conscionable knew determination was thing left. The committee would beryllium going done wherever his encephalon stem would be."
"This committee is truthful long, we couldn't get him to a CT scan. So the janitor was called and asked to bring each his saws. Then determination was a surreal speech betwixt the neurosurgeon, the ER doctor, and the trauma doc astir however to chopped it and what benignant of wood it was, and if it was a hardwood oregon a softwood. They tried to usage a powered saw, but it caused excessively overmuch vibration, truthful they ended up conscionable precise cautiously and dilatory sawing done this committee by hand. They chopped it to astir a ft agelong truthful helium could acceptable successful the scanner. He went off, EVERYONE went with him, and I was near to enactment orders and worldly successful arsenic the resident. At this point, discussions were astir whether helium could beryllium a transplant donor.
I got the orders in, and the feline got the CT and came backmost to the trauma room. Everyone other was successful radiology waiting for the pictures to format. The caregiver came up to maine and asked for immoderate sedation medications. I told her helium wasn't doing anything, and that we were gonna trial his encephalon relation successful a minute, truthful I didn't privation to springiness him anything.
Nurse: 'No, he's awake.'
Me: 'What? No, he's not.'
Nurse: 'No, he's afloat awake.'
Me: 'It's done his brain.'
Nurse: 'Go see.'
I ran into the country and said, 'Sir, springiness maine a thumbs up connected your close hand. Boom: thumb came up connected the right. Oh shit!! His look was inactive a hamburger, truthful you couldn't spot thing there, but helium could intelligibly hear, process, and enactment connected it. We got him instantly connected dense symptom meds and sedation close astir the clip everyone other came storming backmost to denote that helium mightiness beryllium awake. Turns out, EMS had fixed him a immense slug of thing to support him retired during the transport, truthful instantly connected arrival, helium was inactive out, and that explained wherefore we didn't spot immoderate movement. But aft 20 minutes oregon so, helium began to aftermath up.
We discovered that this woody committee did not stay 3 inches wide the full way, but tapered arsenic it went backmost to lone astir 1/4 inch wide. It went conscionable beneath the brain, missed the brainstorm by virtually 1mm, missed each the important nerves, wholly decimated his close lateral c1 vertebral body, transected his interior carotid artery and vein but tamponaded some of them truthful they didn't bleed, and helium had been fortunate capable to beryllium calved with a implicit ellipse of Willis (an artery nett successful the brain) truthful helium could get humor travel from the other artery to his close broadside and forestall his encephalon from stroking retired owed to the deficiency bash flow.
The dude instantly went to surgery. He had the committee removed and had repairs connected his cervix and face. He had astir 5 surgeries, but apparently, helium walked retired of the infirmary astir a week later. He had to beryllium successful a peculiar collar for similar 3 months, but his lone semipermanent harm was going to beryllium a astir apt permanently crooked neck.
It was the wildest happening I've ever seen. About 100 things had to spell precisely close for that feline to not conscionable instantly die."
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