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[Valor55]

Valor, are you sure that you didn't accidentally walk onto the set of The X-Files?:D

It could have been candid camera and he had a camcorder in his belly.

[HappyCitizennSC]

I took to this scenario to some nurses, and while disturbing, it IS a possibility for this to happen. As much as it truly does SUCK, it's possible to be unable to permanently repair a hernia. Extremely unlikely, but possible. The BEST possible thing was for the man seek a pain management doctor...which I'm hoping eventually happened.

[smokenmirrors1]

I once strip searched an inmate coming into a State Correctional facility in North Carolina from the County Jail when another inmate noticed dollops of feces on the floor where he had been standing.

I called the medical officer in because I suspected he had suitcased some drugs in his rectum.

The officer called me over to take a look at him and we found that he had a hemorhoid the size of a baseball....

We sent the poor S.O.B. to the prison hospital ... Batter up.

[Valor55]

I took to this scenario to some nurses, and while disturbing, it IS a possibility for this to happen. As much as it truly does SUCK, it's possible to be unable to permanently repair a hernia. Extremely unlikely, but possible. The BEST possible thing was for the man seek a pain management doctor...which I'm hoping eventually happened.

Um yeah, I saw it first hand. That's what I'm talking about here. I didn't actually make it up. :rolleyes:

[mpd145]

That is pretty nasty....

[Upandatem]

The officer called me over to take a look at him and we found that he had a hemorhoid the size of a baseball....

He should be a spokesmodel for 'Preparation H'. :D

[HappyCitizennSC]

Um yeah, I saw it first hand. That's what I'm talking about here. I didn't actually make it up. :rolleyes:

Valor, I certainly didn't think that you would make this up. Forgive me if that's what it sounded like.

From the background that I am working to build, I was wondering about the competency of this poor man's care providers. It would certainly seem that SOMETHING could be done medically to help someone like this, but I've been told that, as much as it sucks, there aresome people with hernias that simply cannot be repaired. The only thing that CAN be done is pain management.

Not questioning your observation at all...I questioned the medicine behind it. 'Nother forum, I guess.....

[scarlet_tunic]

I have one to add to the list of the gross and disturbing (props to the thread starter though, that was really gross :eek: )

My uncle's friend is an officer in Edmonton, and he told us about a guy he brought in for drunk in public. Typical street person, layers of clothing, etc. No shoes. When the guards searched him, they asked him to take his socks off...that's how bad they smelled. He said he couldn't. So they proceeded to take them off, and couldn't. What's the problem, you might ask? His skin, tissue, toe nails and hair had grown through layer upon layer of sock! They actually had to get surgical shears to slice them off, with all of the dead skin intact. Sort of like a cast I'm guessing. I guess up here in the colder climates, it's a lot cheaper to buy or find socks than shoes. They just layer 'em up until they get holes in them, and then add more.

When my cousins refuse to change their socks, I just remind them of this story. Works every time! :D

[Creeker]

This tears it. If someone ever questions my "Fanny Pack" holster, I'm tellin' 'em its a hernia retainer!! Previously it was going to be a Colostomy bag...

One that still stays with me is the old guy, living alone who died while he was watching tv, wearing a bathrobe with nothing else. He apparently tried to get off of his couch and was found sitting up on the floor leaning against the couch. He'd been dead about 2 weeks, had A/C and a decent house, so no real stench, flies, etc. until we opened the door.

The thing that "stood out" was that when you die, all of those fluids go somewhere to settle and it usually results in swelling of soft tissues at the lowest part of the anatomy.

Can anyone think of a soft tissue that may have been affected?

Yep, his scrotum was the size of 3 basketballs, since he hadn't yet deflated in some manner...OK maybe 2 purple basketballs, but you get the picture. I would have thought they would have burst.

The fun part was moving him, since his scrotum weighed so much, it didn't want to lift with the rest of the body and we were afraid it was going to pop any second like an IED you want to disarm...

The best thing about the call was that the Football game I was missing at home was playing on his TV... Hey, it was a playoff!!

BTW, masks are for "Woosies", and sometimes keep you from smelling the things you should know about and be running from... explosive vapors come to mind :D

[prowlassignment]

My instructor told me a story about where there was a fatal accident that he responded to.

The victim had his head removed from his body, the officer in his sick humor decided to check for a pulse and call for an ambulance "just to make sure"

The problem was that his head couldnt be located and it was the middle of the night.

The head turned up about 30 feet away on some lady's front doorstep and there was no way to clean up all the brains and blood. Bet she wasn't too happy in the morning