wrote this as a comment... reposted here.
From the journals of bizarre patientry
We had a patient in our ICU who ate rocks. (Pica is the clinical term for it, what orifice I pulled that info out of I do not know).
She was probably 55 or so and looney as a canadian coin. The screwed up party is not that she had Pica, which is WTFworthy enough, but her bizarre family went out into the back yard (her favorite hunting ground) and brought her rocks to eat to the ICU.
The patient was very distressed when we would not give her the rocks upon request. We never told her that we threw them away, she would have had a stroke or something.
Vitamin infusion for patient, psych consult for family methinks.