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Originally Posted by BTFLCHLD
hi...i dont know if you missed this
or chose/choose not to respond
but i didnt think it would be
'right' not mentioning/bumping
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I missed it! So thanks for the bump.
Hmmmm....lemme think. I work in a college health office, so I don't get too many really urgent or scary things, but here's some gross stuff.
*One girl complained of eye pain. We put dye in her eye (the dye will be darker on injuries/scratches) & looked at it under the special lamp - there was a straight line going right down the center of her eye. Turns out she had an eyelash bothering her so she tried to remove it. WITH A STRAIGHT PIN.
A-Hole.
*Kid came in with a pulse of about 160 & abnormal EKG. Didn't want us to send him to the ER cuz he had been doing coke all night & thought we would call the cops. Idiot.
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Warning against wearing flip-flops - girl came in with blood gushing from her toe. She had flip flops on, and when she opened a door, the bottom of the door caught on her big toenail & tore it partway off. So it was ripped off the nailbed, but still attached enough that it wouldn't come right off, sticking straight up in the air. The provider had to numb the area by injecting lidocaine under the nail
*shudder* and go under the nail & cut it off the bed with scissors. They always taught us in school not to let a patient know that something's grossing you out or upsetting you. I had a really hard time with that one.
*We get lots of kids that cut off the tips of their fingers, or accidentally stab themselves with knives. It's usually while cutting food, but the architecture students work with utility knives a lot when building models so it's pretty common for them. It's a running joke that an arch. student won't have any fingertips left by the time they're done with school.
*Oooh! Nice recent one - some kid got drunk & passed out one night. So his friends decided to heat up a fork with a lighter & brand his arm with it.
Gross. 2nd & 3rd degree burns, it's not healing at all, the kid thinks it's funny. Yeah, you'll be laughing your ass off when you go through skin grafts, jerk.
*Girl got elbowed in the face playing field hockey & bit her tongue. It bifurcated (sp) & looked like a snake tongue. Yeah, we sent her to the ER.