The Strangest Thing You've Seen In A Body (Doctor Stories r/AskReddit)

doctors medical examiners morticians of Reddit what is the weirdest anomaly you've ever found on in a body a mummified foetus I was working in Africa and the usually very stoic Congolese surgeons called me into theater gagging the patient was an elderly woman with a protruding abdominal mass when they opened it they found that it was a long long dead mummified foetus which as a result of an ectopic pregnancy had somehow managed to both wore off after it died and somehow avoid killing the mother her body had encapsulated the alien tissue and over the years it had slowly eroded her anterior abdominal wall to the point where it finally caused her to have enough symptoms to get something done about it it was horrific and the smell was worse happily though the patient survived the procedure and just left the surgical team with her the memory when my mom was a mortician I would hang out in the mortuary watching TV her boss showed me a guy who had retained water and drowned his balls were the size of a grapefruit not the most pleasant thing to see at age 15 when you poked him he moved like a waterbed in med school I had to do a pelvic on a woman during my e/m rotation and found her in pipe she forgot she put it there during a traffic stop I also had to remove a nail from a guy's head he figured it must have went off while reloading he had intractable tooth pain so he got sent by his dentist for a CT and lo and behold there was a nail in his cranium guy came in for an outpatient MRI of his cervical spine on the form where it asks if he ever had any metal and his body specifically asks if any injured by a metal object he selected no same with a verbal questionnaire also we do a keyword search in the patient's heart chart for the term foreign body in case it's documented nothing came up he lays down and I start taking images while talking to him though the speaker during one of the image sets he starts pounding on the inside of the scanner and screaming figured he was claustrophobic so I stopped the Machine and get him out immediately he jumps up and starts talking nonsense and runs into the wall screaming he needs to get away from the ocean I call overhead for emergency room staff to come down in security as easily continues screaming and running into the wall before we restrained him the staff rushed down and he's talking a mile a minute and explaining how he is inside of the poster of the beach that covers the entire wall in the room he's in scared out of his mind and hallucinating security restrains him and he's taken down to get an x-ray of his skull there was a BB in his frontal lobe it had just enough ferrous metal left in it to travel a few millimeters in his brain in the emergency department he kept trying to escape and was very fast while unrestrained he got up somehow convinced the guard he was better patient belted out of his room into the main hallway a code was called for a lost patient for over an hour nobody could find him until the nurse looked into a large storage closet poor guy was found in a pool of blood he crashed into a large mirror that was leaning on the wall and had severe lacerations of his neck face and arms efforts were made to transfuse him but it was too late still haunts me how a simple baby from 40 years earlier could do that discovered his brother accidentally shot him with a BB gun when they were kids did an autopsy once where the patient's plasma separated from the blood one giant plasma ball it was really weird the weirdest thing I've ever faced as a doctor is also by far the saddest and I still think about it every now and then five-year-old kid with oropharyngeal cancer caused by human papillomavirus warts she had been sexually abused since she was two years old or even younger by her father which was now in jail and got the cancer because of continuous oral abuse that caused papilloma to grow on her throat but no mother in a sight was being raised by foster family when she arrived to us the growth was already blocking her trachea and eventually she underwent surgery to remove the tumor then chemo then other five different surgeries when I stopped working there she was breathing through a tracheostomy hole and still under treatment a bad prognosis it's been five years since I left and she is probably dead by now and it warns me because no one told me in college that my profession would make me see the worst part of mankind doctor here general prac and young sir not many experiences I had this kid 8 and his mother come to the Petrich about a cold as soon they came in they filled the room with stench like a wound festering that humid and rancid smell a kid had a runny nose but secretions were coming from a single nostril upon examination we found the sinus or cavities filled with cotton apparently the kid had this funny idea of stuffing one nostril with cotton and shoving it up inside with a stick as far as he could we had to call the specialist to remove a lot of very deep cotton that was of course a picnic field for bacteria kid probably isn't going college but he won't be lacking new ideas neurologist here we don't get as many cool stories as the ER Doc's however when I was a medical student we had a cadaver with a very large and very tiger-stripe tattoo dong this was the only tattoo this man had and was very unexpected when it came time to genital dissection obviously this was saved by the stuff for use on all of our Anatomy exams you walk around the room to different parts bodies and identify whatever has tagged and this specimen was always identifiable by the only laughing medical student as they kept rotating around the room imagine donating your body to science only to get your dong cut off and laughter fears more after your death father owns a crema Tori we once cremated a man with no clothes and not in any container and along with his ashes came a massive belt buckle I kid you not we have no idea how it got in him that it was definitely there you can take the man out of Texas but you can't take Texas out of the man teratoma consisting of a couple motors as an incidental finding in a pelvis x-ray it was in the patient's uterus guy in his 20s who had a neck x-ray it was discovered that the peg holding his head onto his body was congenitally absent sana don Toit it's probably a good thing he never played football my dad had a patient that slipped and fell on a whole mayonnaise jar weirdest thing was in a woman's intestine a dead mouse tiny little thing obviously never got the chance to ask how the mouse got there as this was postmortem definitely unexpected though she probably swallowed it to catch the spider my colleague was embalming an autopsy bail and found two hannett's numerous plastic tissue sample slides a plastic urine container with another person's name on it and over 27 latex gloves within his abdominal cavity a nurse man comes in after a car accident we do a brain scan for safety and find a three-inch nail embedded in his brain ask man about it he says he has no idea admits he was once shot where the nail gun but had no idea a nail had been lodged in his head had been there for well over four years interned with an Emmy and we had a case where the death was very very sudden he didn't really complain about any pain or anything and then was gone we opened him up and there's blood behind the kidney almost an entire liter of blood in the cavity with no sign at all of internal bleeding not really fitting with the question posed but a medical oddity just the same my mother-in-law miscarried twice before she had my husband and his twin brother she had some kind of cysts or protrusion in her uterus that once one of the previous fetus got to a certain week of growth it would rub against the protrusion and rupture the sac and the fetus would not be at a point of viability and would perish so when she became pregnant with twins she knew inevitably she would sadly lose them at that stage the timeframe comes and goes fetuses are still okay and growing normally comes time to have them early as with twins and lo and behold not only are they in the same amniotic sac but the other twin sac is around the one they shared they were double bubbled they had twin transfusion syndrome so no one at the time had a moment to think about it life-or-death emergency at that time but the fact that they were double wrapped is more than likely the only reason they made it that far it both survived the twin transfusion very rare in the early eighties for one if not both to die just an amazing story I think a real grub inside a tooth an old patient came to us with a long-term and several pain in her tooth the doctor extracted the tooth and put it into a tray after one minute we saw a grub crawling out from the tooth this woman had lived with it for at least six months one of our cadavers had two spinal cords aka split spinal cord malformation I worked in medicine as an x-ray tech medical assistant one day we had a patient come in complaining of a stomach ache considering the time of the year it wasn't an abnormal complaints to have come in our family practice so we run him through the normal tests urinalysis and an abdominal x-ray KUB for those medically inclined well he was a shorter fella so I had a lot of room on the film this kind of x-rays one large shot centered on your belly button it's mostly used to see how full of crap you are I went to the dark room to process his film when something weird could be seen near his butt there was definitely a lot of poop backed up that I couldn't tell what was causing the blockage I showed the doc the film and she busted out laughing the doctor I worked with was usually stone-faced and serious about these kinds of things so it was odd we were all confused she asked me to go into the room with her while she asked him some questions the first thing she asked him was what he shoved up his butt I was so taken aback by this statement I almost missed what he said you see this 40 year old man has diarrhea of the week before and decided to shove a tampon up his butt to stop it he tried to take it out but the string got caught and then he simply forgot about it we had to remove it it was disgusting and I never did another procedure ever again in my anatomy lab my groups's Qaddafi had died from systemic complications of stage 4 lung cancer and when we got to the lungs they were too rock-hard necrotic blackened masses that looked nothing like the other cadavers pink and spongy lungs my anatomy prof took one lung out and wrung it resulting in this putrid black goo flowing out of the lung as he was draining the lung he mentioned in an Indian accent this this is what happens when you smoke heard a story from a urologist when I was in medical school about a guy who came in for a vasectomy during the procedure the urologist has trouble finding the vas deferens stereo ders a few tests turns out the guy has bilateral congenital absence of the vas deferens CA VD but the guy had three kids and Lucy had some splainin to do she isn't dead but this week I saw a patient with endometriosis in her lungs somehow wound lining cells had traveled to her thorax and colonized on the lung she previously had symptoms of coughing up blood while menstruating good because the endometriosis was so severe was on the pill to stop her periods entirely then she came off it to have a baby and after the birth with her hormones all over the place she developed two pulmonary embolisms blood clots in the lung and a few weeks after that three successive pneumothorax collapsed lung the womb cells had tried to shed and made a hole between the Airways and the SAC surrounding the lung letting air escape she's deciding now whether to let the surgeons cut out the part of her lung with the endometrial cells to go back on the pill for life or to have a full hysterectomy and remove her ovaries tough choice at 32 I was the combat medic in the army not super super uncommon about one in 10,000 people have it but I had a buddy with citizen vs. all of his major internal organs were reversed hot on the right side instead of the left for example as soon as he got to the unit it was the first thing he told me wanted to make sure if he got hurt I wasn't curious as to why he had no heart I guess here's another weird one three golf balls in a man's stomach his cause of death was lung cancer still trying to figure out how he ate golf balls how long they were in there considering he was on life support for two weeks before he died during an autopsy we found a plastic shamrock that was about three four inches big and some guy's stomach another guy had the biggest piece of steak in his throat cause of death was obviously choking pretty memorable to me I'm a doctor was working in OT anesthesiology an emergency came in the afternoon apparently the patient is a fisherman and got into a fight with his fisherman friend patient was impaled by a spear gun the spear entered just lateral to his bellybutton and came out just above his right hip he actually held this six featuring long spear going through his body and walked into the emergency room by himself when it was time to put him under he wasn't scared anxious he said just fix me up so I can go find that guy I was a nurse for the year and a dude came in with a big vibrating plastic dong stuck in his butt and it was still on and we had to wait for the batteries to die before we could even do anything there were two big DeeDee sized batteries he was there for like three hours laying on a table but vibrating not a pathologist but I work in a coroner's office on more than one occasion we have directed a post-mortem on someone who has died abroad often due to heart related issues I once got a phone call from the pathologist after he had opened the body to examine the heart this person died from a heart attack yes apparently so you want me to examine the heart yes please , where is it some other countries routinely remove organs when they are determining a cause of death then the body is in bombed and sent back to their home country we still often have to confirm the cause of death so I've spent a lot of my time chasing missing organs around the world worked in a funeral home had a friend at the medical examiner's office a father was thought to have died of a heart attack and he came to our funeral home next morning the pathologist comes in and looks at the notes calls us in a panic we rush the body to the medical an honors office a few weeks later I asked my friend what happened the guy was actually murdered and was shot had a kid Amos imperforate not that uncommon basically his intestines ended in a blind pouch what was odd though is that his genitals were rotated when you took off his diaper the scrotum sat on top the dog was under it pointing back young man comes in complaining of headache I work in radiology we ask for history nothing to report he says we scan his head CT shows a bullet rattling loose inside his sphenoid sinus kind of between the nasal cavity and the brain I asked the guy have you ever been shot in the face oh yeah I guess I forgot to mention that I'm a paramedic I had a 9-1-1 call for a woman with a quad stone in her lady bits during the ride to the hospital I asked why she put it up there she said she hits it with her vibe to had pleasure and every now and then I can't get it out I'm a carer for the elderly at a hospital and this asked me to help her insert a catheter into a lady with dementia but when we prop her legs open there was a horrific smell and we could see something dark in the vaginal cavity it was a teddy bear we think it was there a while I work as a statistician in a major hospital so I see and catalogue a lot of weird things worst thing had seen was someone come in complaining of leg pain and showing signs of septic shock after examination doctor orders scans and there's two metal rods one in each leg that weren't on their file turns out the patient has been to se Asia to get a height altering surgery and the doctor have used items you'd pick up from the local hardware store to fix the bones after breaking after extensive surgery patient lost the lower part of one leg and was lucky to keep the second I saw a patient with endometriosis lining up in her uterus cells in her nose meaning that she would get epistaxis bleeding from nose every month or so related to her menstrual periods I was a mortician for a religious organization and I have to say that the butt-plug conundrum of 2013 was among the more difficult issues I've faced in the field a dissident arrived in my morgue with a bejewelled bus plug firmly in place within the rectum which led to a very interesting issue if the family had known that the deceased was likely to have had such an item we'd be screwed if we didn't listed amongst personal effects to be returned to the family but if there were as vanilla as most of the relevant religious community claimed to be such an item would probably be considered a slanderous perversion but fortunately my boss was a member of the relevant clergy so I simply removed the item and popped it into a biohazard bag for him to decide upon not me but my boyfriend's mom is a doctor for people with special needs one of her patients an older man with Down syndrome among other diagnoses appeared to have extreme abdominal pains that lasted for weeks they did several tests and tried some medication but the pain wouldn't stop he also suffered from constipation and stopped eating altogether at some point the source of his trouble remained a mystery for almost two weeks and the doctors were starting to get desperate then suddenly one afternoon my boyfriend's mom got a call from her clinic she's the head of the department so they let her know when something important happens while she's not on duty that this man had finally been able to go to the toilet and among some still was a blow latex glove over the following days he passed about 20 of these in total and he felt better and better and luckily started eating again most likely he had somehow been able to steal the gloves from the cleaning lady's cart and aids them without anybody knowing seeing causing the gloves to get stuck in his intestine while absorbing his digested food filling up like little poop the looms in his stomach if this really is one of the weirdest stories I've ever heard but my boyfriend's mom said he had been known for eating weird stuff like this one time he ate a t-shirt you have been visited by the holy dog yo like this video and subscribe for a good luck I publish new videos every day until then check another video or don't either way have a great day you magnificent people [Music]

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