Appreciate the Absurdity of Reality Week
this week's event of amusement occured after a relatively normal night at meridian park hospital. the schedule included a routine cystoscopy (an inspection of the interior of the bladder). well, the patient gets so disoriented and grouchy on the drugs given to sedate him and he attempts (and succeeds) to pull his foley (a catheter that's inserted into your urethra and ureter in order to help drain the bladder of urine) out with this little balloon at the tip fully blown up. it turns out that he needs to have his prostate removed due to it being extremely enlarged, and so he rips the cathether through his swollen prostate and through his urethra anyway, causing so much blood to engorge in the penis, that the massive hematoma (bruise) migrated down into his scrotum.
well, there was so much blood in his penis and scrotum that the simple pressure of reinserting the foley caused the scrotum to SPLIT OPEN RIGHT DOWN THE MIDDLE, SPILLING BLOODY TESTICLES AND EPIDIDIMOUS EVERYWHERE.
the funniest part of this is the circulating nurse, who said about the whole thing, "usually when something like that happens, you start to brainstorm, you know? 'i'm going to need this pan, and these instruments, and i'll call so-and-so' etc. i couldn't do anything but stand there in utter disbelief! it was like i expected KITTENS to come out next!"
in other news, i'm flying out in two days and i'm completely unprepared to deal with this, but thank you to all of you with your supportive comments.. it's really made a difference knowing i can call someone if i need it..
well, there was so much blood in his penis and scrotum that the simple pressure of reinserting the foley caused the scrotum to SPLIT OPEN RIGHT DOWN THE MIDDLE, SPILLING BLOODY TESTICLES AND EPIDIDIMOUS EVERYWHERE.
the funniest part of this is the circulating nurse, who said about the whole thing, "usually when something like that happens, you start to brainstorm, you know? 'i'm going to need this pan, and these instruments, and i'll call so-and-so' etc. i couldn't do anything but stand there in utter disbelief! it was like i expected KITTENS to come out next!"
in other news, i'm flying out in two days and i'm completely unprepared to deal with this, but thank you to all of you with your supportive comments.. it's really made a difference knowing i can call someone if i need it..