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

2. She lifts one of the patient’s breasts to clean underneath, and several cockroaches scurry away.

“Working as a hospital security officer, I was called to help control a mentally challenged woman who wouldn’t cooperate with an examination. She’s overweight but not ‘reality TV’ overweight. I’m holding her arm so she won’t slap the nurse again, my partner doing the same on the other side, trying to ignore the smell, when the nurse says something like ‘Screw this! Guys, try not to look!’ and pulls the patient’s gown off. She starts sponging down the women’s neck and chest, removing layers of caked on filth. She lifts one of the patient’s breasts to clean underneath and several cockroaches scurry away, some of them burrowing under the other breast. After wiping that area down, she lifts the other breast and several more cockroaches scurry out, some going back under the first breast. Like they’ve played this game before or something. The nurse went back to the first breast, and I can’t tell you how the story ends because I left at that point to go vomit for a while.”

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