An OR Nurse Talks About The Most Gory, Disgusting Thing They’d Ever Seen At Work

By Eric Redding,
via Flickr - Vancouver Coastal Health
via Flickr – Vancouver Coastal Health

Found at AskReddit by banzaipanda- this is very gross and you have been warned.

OR Nurse here. This is kind of a long one…

I was taking call one night, and woke up at two in the morning for a “general surgery” call. Pretty vague, but at the time, I lived in a town that had large populations of young military guys and avid meth users, so late-night emergencies were common.

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