what did you do?: embarrassing biological accidents

[shootingstar]

Wow, GLC your menstrual crime scence stories take the cake so far. (Or whatever expression is appropriate. ) As the the ob-gyn, he should be understanding no matter what.

I feel vaguely comforted --this is the first time in my life after ..4 decades, I even discussed accidental gushing, accidents, etc. And I grew up with 4 sisters. Keep in mind, we had overflowing bathroom garbage as a result of many females in the household and box stacks of feminine papers in the closet. And I bathroom.

[emily_in_nc]

Oh GLC, I am so sorry that happened to you -- how horrible! I would have just died. I had some near misses, but nothing that bad, thank the gods.

Talking about this oh-so-appetizing topic reminded me of another embarrassing incident. When my DH, my mother and step-dad, and my brother were all visiting my grandparents in Florida years ago, the entire house worth of toilets backed up and a plumber had to be called in toot-suite.

When he ran his long fish down to determine the obstruction, it turned out to be a tampon. Being the only female of menstruating age, I could blame it on no one but myself. And with my grandfather in the room witnessing the whole thing, I was MORTIFIED. Needless to say, they went into the garbage after that, which was also interesting since I was sharing a bathroom with my brother, my DH, and my g-father. I used a LOT of tp, let's just say!

[FlyingScot]

Light blue scrubs, dysfunctional uterine bleeding and CPR are not a good mix. The thing is, I was doing compressions so it's not like I could stop and take care of the problem and not only that every time I pushed on the patients chest it caused me to bleed more. As in running down my legs and soaking my socks bleeding. Fortunately my scrubs were about 3 sizes too big and I miraculously avoided soiling them but my socks were a lost cause. I had to wear patient slippers in my clogs! Oh and that puddle of blood on the CPR stool well that was from a "disconnected IV" let me clean that up!!