November 1, 2011
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You go Squish now!
At one time I thought I could never be grossed out.
I think most guys believe this due to our fragile egos. We must stay macho until we die (most likely from our rocked powered Spree colliding into a brick wall at 200 mph because we added a jet pack onto the back).
I don’t mind gore, I don’t mind broken bones or bloody dismemberment. It’s part of the job from time to time. However, I have discovered my Achilles Heel. So what bothers me? Let’s give you a few examples and see if you can figure it out
#1 Heebie-Jeebies
I go to a kids room who is presenting with a rash. Mother stated that it’s probably a diaper rash. I check out the kiddo and take a look at his diaper area. It looks fine, maybe some scratch marks. Then I separate the butt cheeks and look directly into 239478239847 pinworms squiggling everywhere. You know the scene in Indiana Jones’ face melts. Yeah that was me. They squiggled all over this kid, while I excused myself from the room… and then got the heebie-jeebies
#2 Blech
A very nice, but very fat lady had dropped a pumpkin on her toe. It was a big pumpkin, she was a big girl. About a month later, her blacked toe, which had not been hurting, began to hurt again. She thought there was some white pus in it. Her black toenail flopped back and fourth loosely over her toe. Gross? Not yet… I push and prod over the nail, expecting to express some pus. No pus was there, however I did find several maggots crawling under there. Excuse me a minute, I think I heard my name called outside… Blech!!!
#3 Gleerrb
He said a cockroach crawled into his ear and got stuck. As it turns out, a cockroach crawled into his ear and got stuck. Gleeeeerrrrrb!!!!
#4 Itchy
I took care of a patient who had pneumonia. It was later found out that she had lice. I spent the rest of the day itching, and actually went out and bought the shampoo out of hypochondriasis.
So did you figure it out.
Yeah, things that crawl inside of me and live off of eating me, that’s the thing that gets me grossed out.
What grosses you out?
Comments (5)
Maggots actually serve a beneficial purpose in preventing gangrene. But they’re an unpleasant surprise if you didn’t put them there. The worms… yeah, that’s just gross.
I had a type of maggot under my nails briefly in Honduras. They call them “niguas” and apparently they’re chigoes in English. I once had a maggot in my scalp, too, in Costa Rica. Had whipworm throughout my childhood and youth in Colombia but never saw the worms. Finally got rid of them when I was 19.
Wow wtf that woman definitely lost her toe, fucking nasty. Holy fuck and what are pinworms doing in your asshole?! PLEASE TELL ME THAT IS PREVENTABLE I THINK I THREW UP AT THE IDEA.
Being a female I think I am entitled to have irrational fears that seem, well… irrational.
I fear roaches.
I know that they are mostly harmless, and simply are a creepy crawly type insect (aren’t most?)… but the idea that said insect can survive what we humans, of any super kind, can… is beyond that “creepy crawly” factor.
Chop off its head? No problem.. it will live for 3 more days… ONLY to die of starvation…
Flush the monster.. No problem, it will hold its breath the entire way down the pipeline, only to emerge and hunt me down while I sleep at night…(to crawl in my ear and get stuck)..
EWWW…. I need to go decontaminate now.
Mucus. I can “stomach” blood, vomit, gore, and the smell of c-diff. The sight of someone shooting a wad of mucus out of their nose in public or seeing it on the pavement. That makes me gag.
Wow that is some messed up stuff! <gag> God bless you for doing what you do everyday for people.