[ARCHIVED THREAD] - Wow - the weirdest/saddest night I've had at my job tonight - just . . . wow (Page 2 of 2)
My HS Sweetheart was a nurse back in Ohio and contracted the same thing at work. I went home for my Uncles (101st Screaming Eagle) funeral, and ran into her Mom. She told me everything and that I should call her. We talked a few times on the phone, once she talked to me right after a surgery. The nurse answered, said my name and she woke up and talked to me. The nurse was amazed. They had taken her legs and were moving up. It finally killed her. RIP Florence. |
I heard a similiar story except it was a 2 tanks in Germany. Told by a TC who was supposedly in the same company. |
Just don't read threads about Madonna and you will be safe. /just damn.  Since I work in operating rooms all over the country, I would say he probably contracted the virus in an operating room.......
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Actually, it was a "Homicide: Life on the Street" episdoe. The show used to be filmed in Baltimore about 10 years ago, but it got cancelled. |
Back in the 70s I heard the same thing had happened to guy who worked at the warehouse where I'd just been hired. He somehow got pinned between a trailer and the dock, and he lived for a while, until they concluded there was nothing left to do but have the truck pull forward.  I heard a similiar story except it was a 2 tanks in Germany. Told by a TC who was supposedly in the same company. I heard the same thing...I was there around the time it happened. It's all anyone could talk about...
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I remember an episode of Squad 51 in the '70s where a guy was pinned by a truck against a dock. MRSA is a resistant strain of staph the was, originally, only found in hospitals. It has since been found "in the wild". My wife does surgery and when our daughter came down with MRSA in her ears we thought it had come home with my wife. The Dr. that treated her said it may not have, that it was cropping up outside the hospitals especially in kids. A very aggressive treatment cured her and saved her hearing. Jim |
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Yeah, you'll see bad shit more and more. I'll never forget going into a wrong room looking for a patient and seeing what looked like a alien from another planet. This guys face was so fucked up, I almost froze in my tracks before turning around and muttering "holy shit" under my breath. I looked at his chart and found that he'd tried to commit suicide with a shotgun, but really only blew his face off. Disturbing. Overall though, working in surgery made me pretty tough about what I saw. Even in the beginning, I never had any problems seeing fucked up shit. |
was also a scene in 'Faces of Death'
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+1 Nothing like acute care to make you realize how lucky you are compare to others EPOCH |