If you work in a hospital, you're bound to see your share of gnarliness. In a world where blood and guts are an everyday occurrence, it takes a lot to shake a medical professional. We scoured the internet for true creepy stories from hospital workers. These scary, real stories will make your skin crawl and your heart race. These tales are not for the weak of stomach and faint of heart.
Hospital Staff Tell Their Most Upsetting Stories on the Job,
Colostomy bag gets infected
"This story will forever haunt me. I recently took care of a woman who was in her mid 40s, paraplegic, and had a colostomy. For those not familiar, a colostomy is a pouch that is attached to your colon from the outside of your body that catches your stool. These are for people that have serious issues with their gastrointestinal tract that require an alternative channel for feces to leave their body. Well this patient was a very sick lady to begin with, but she also had a strange infection originating from her colostomy site. She was to the point of sepsis, which again to simplify, is just not good.
Turns out, her husband was very seriously addicted to heroin and needed money in the worst way, so he rented his wife out... meaning that people would pay to come over to their house and have sex with his wife in her stoma... the hole from which the feces left her body."
Woman births Cabbage Patch Kid
"Paramedics brought in a 'woman in labor', accompanied by boyfriend. I performed a quick visual check and found something quite unsettling. She appeared to be SEWN SHUT. Like, with thick yarn. Her boyfriend was removed as it appeared to be some sort of abuse issue. The woman was showing signs of infection and is screaming that she needs to push. The home-made stitches were quickly cut, and a small head soon starts crowning. Sadly, as more of the baby protrudes, it appears very still, stiff, and ...plastic-y...? It turned out that this mildly psychotic woman so badly wanted to have a baby, that she shoved a Cabbage Patch Doll up her hoo-haa and sewed it shut to keep it in."
Man comes in who "cut [his] private area"
"I worked the night shift in ER admissions. I have seen lots of craziness in my day but the worst was a schizophrenic man who went off his meds.
When he came in he looked normal. There wasn't anything obviously wrong with him. He asked to see a nurse, so I paged triage. The nurse was with a patient but came out to ask him why he needed to see the nurse and he just said, 'I cut my private area.' So she finishes with her patient and comes back for him. When she gets him to the triage room she asked to see the wound. He drops his pants and HIS PENIS WAS GONE.
This guy had really no idea what he had done. He didn't bring it in. He didn't even know where it was. He had waited way too long to come to the ER. His penis was found in a cemetery later on. All of the men looked pretty pale."
Man's body decays
"A guy came into the ER. Apparently he had been found living in his car basically rotting away. The guy was at least 500 pounds, and had to be cut out of the car. He stunk so bad the whole ER and ambulance bay smelled like dead flesh. There were maggots inside of his open wounds and the sores were so big that man's hip bone was visible."
Doctors remove abscess, find treasures
"I thought it would be a good idea to work at the ER while I started pre-nursing school. I love to pop pimples and stuff so I thought I would be okay with gross stuff. However. A tech had this nickel-sized welt on the back of his neck that was driving the Physician's Assistant nuts. Finally the tech gave in and allowed the PAs to remove it. I asked to watch and the PA agreed. He sterilized and numbed the skin and began to cut around the welt. The welt was a hard abscess, and the PA dropped it in a steel basin. It hit with a 'chink' sound. We look at each other and begin to dissect the abscess. Its full of curly black hair, blood, tissue and then, what looks like a little baby tooth. We quietly bandage the guy up in shocked silence."
Woman claws out own eyeball
"My dad is in nursing school, told me one story where they brought in a mentally disturbed woman who was behaving violently. She kept on flailing about and then started attacking herself. At one point he said she literally clawed out her eyeball. It was dangling out of the socket by the optic nerve and everyone tried to restrain her so they could help but one of her arms broke free so she reached up, grabbed her eyeball, and squished it."
Man carves himself a vagina
"A fellow ER nurse told me this one.
She was sitting in the triage when a man walked up, looking slightly uncomfortable.
Nurse - 'So how can I help you?'
Man - 'My vagina is bleeding.'
The nurse suspected that the patient was transgender, but the only reply she could muster is 'Vagina?'
Man - 'Yes, my vagina has been bleeding for some time now and won't stop.'
Then he goes into story-telling mode and explains that he is male, and for years he's been using disposable plastic cutlery to carve a vagina between his anus and balls. By scraping just a little bit everyday and then stuffing the wound with paper/cotton/something, to keep it from sealing up. By this point his "vagina" is several inches deep, but after his last carving session it started bleeding and wouldn't stop."
Woman stuffs herself with leaves
"A woman came in complaining of foul vaginal odor. A fellow med student asked her what medicines/herbs/supplements she was on, and she pulled out a huge bag full of different sized mason jars and prescription bottles. One of the jars contains raspberry leaves, which the woman said were used to improve vaginal odors. The doctor asked how long she kept them in there, and she replied, 'They're natural, they just decompose and disappear.'
Cut to woman in the stirrups. Her vagina is loaded with rotting, brown-red mush. Ugh."
Woman stores dead bird inside herself
"My friend is a nurse and working in Melbourne and a well-known patient (frequent flyer with mental health concerns) came in throwing up, her skin was yellow and clammy. She was very disoriented. The nurse proceeded to do a full body check with another nurse and they just happen to see a small string hanging out of the lady's private parts. They asked the woman about it and she wouldn't answer. So the nurses slowly pulled on the string and out came a dead, decaying sparrow. When asked what it was doing in there, the patient claimed that she was planning on eating it later.The decomposing bird was causing blood poisoning."
Couple tries to remove lost condom with spoons
"There was the young couple who had tried to remove a 'lost' condom unsuccessfully with a pair of spoons (don't ask!) They had failed, they told us, and were worried. In we went, the doctor and I. There was no condom - they had been trying to pull out the cervix with the spoons."