GROSS: 21 Emergency Medical Technicians Share Disgusting True Tales Of Patients With EXTREMELY Bad Hygiene

16. She ended up with necrotizing fasciitis on her labia. They had to pretty much cut it all off and then some.

“I took care of an obese woman who had had uncontrolled diabetes. As a result, she had an abscess on her labia that had to be lanced and drained surgically. Between that bacteria and the yeasty foul stuff coming from her vagina, she ended up with necrotizing fasciitis on her labia. They had to pretty much cut it all off and then some. She told me she couldn’t wait until she was healed so she could have sex with her boyfriend again. I wanted to barf.”

Grjaryau


17. Patient seems puzzled but then yells ‘Oh! I lost a tuna sandwich a long time ago?!’

“Nurse here. Had an extremely obese female in her 50s come in (took a neighboring hospital’s gurney and ambulance to get her to our ED) for a fever and infection. I could smell her before I saw her as they wheeled her in. After much inspection, we found a rotten mass in an abdominal skin fold that had caused a recessed infection and was surrounded by the worst yeast infection I’ve ever smelled. Patient seems puzzled but then yells ‘Oh! I lost a tuna sandwich a long time ago?!’ Excellent.”

SheWhoComesFirst


18. I go in there and catch him pulling a cheeseburger from underneath his man bosom wrapped in tinfoil.

“Working in a nursing home we had a 500lb patient. He would stash food for later. One night I go in there and catch him pulling a cheeseburger from underneath his man bosom wrapped in tinfoil. This is at about 2am, dinner was at 6. The cheese was melted and the burger was warm.”

desertofdirt


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