Inverting Papilloma

[Jeanette X]

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dqp6ql9DUHg

Some guy gets a polyp removed. They reach into his nose and yank it out.

This is my new favorite medical video on youtube. Even better than the earwax ones. :love

Edit: This one is even better!
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DQDzfSMmMVc&feature=channel_page

[Tadao]

I will never watch this.

[Shrubfest]

OH GOD.

I HAD TO WATCH IT!
Now I'm even more afraid of nasal polyps than I was before!

[darkvare]

reminds me when i got a knee cut all infected they poured some liquid and it was like putting a mentos in soda it was all bubbly

[Fathom Zero]

Hydrogen peroxide does that, a few other things too. It's a debrider/debridant, whatever.

[darkvare]

oh thats what is called on english in spanish is called agua oxigenada

[Jeanette X]

reminds me when i got a knee cut all infected they poured some liquid and it was like putting a mentos in soda it was all bubbly
Did it shoot three feet in the air like mentos do when you drop them in soda?

[darkvare]

no it was only an strange goey substabce in the end. i had skin bridges too it was awesome

[Jeanette X]

i had skin bridges too it was awesome

I thought skin bridges only happened on penises. :confused:

[darkvare]

i dunno what you understand by it lol

[Kitsa]

Couple of years ago I had a nasty fall. I was taking a shortcut home from work and cutting across a waste area between a liquor store and a grocery store. Unfortunately for me, the waste area was a hill, lined with limestone boulders, ending in the back alleyway of the grocery store.

http://i304.photobucket.com/albums/nn199/kitsa_for_imockery/DSCF0425-1.jpg

I was doing well until I hit some birdseed that someone had spread on the rocks:
http://i304.photobucket.com/albums/nn199/kitsa_for_imockery/DSCF0424.jpg

Then I went flying. Fortunately, I landed on my hands and knees. Unfortunately, my knee (and most of my weight) landed on a broken liquor bottle. I also sprained my ankle.

I was closer to my job at the hospital than I was to home, and I didn't have a cellphone with me, so I literally limp-crawled all the way back to the back door of the hospital. The copy repair guy was there, he knew me, and when he saw all the blood he ran and got a wheelchair and pushed me right back to the ER where I'd just gotten off work. He got some sort of customer service award for that.

It looked way worse before they cleaned me up, but here you go:

Hands that hit the asphalt, after they dug the rocks out with tweezers (that was fun):
http://i304.photobucket.com/albums/nn199/kitsa_for_imockery/bloody-hands.jpg

Road rash and hyperextension bruises from the sprained ankle (this was before it swelled up like an inflatable pool toy):
http://i304.photobucket.com/albums/nn199/kitsa_for_imockery/bloody-ankle.jpg

...and my gloriously carved-up knee, sans the chunks of grit and shards of glass that were hanging out of it.

http://i304.photobucket.com/albums/nn199/kitsa_for_imockery/bloody-knee-1.jpg

Anyway, my point is that when you have something that's a big bacteria-compromise situation, they want you to keep up the Manual Debriding even after the hospital fun is over. I got sent home with a scrub brush...actual plastic bristles...and was expected to scrub the mawfugger with superstrong antibacterial soap a couple of times a day.

There is some sort of fundamental self-preservation override you have to achieve to stick a frigging scrub brush in an open wound and scrub "as hard as you can" , per the attending's orders. I nearly puked a couple of times.

[Fathom Zero]

Debriding is not fun, yeh. May as well give me a belt sander, get it through quick.

[Jeanette X]

i dunno what you understand by it lol
I mean this:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Skin_bridge

http://www.circumstitions.com/Restric/Botched1sb.html

REALLY, REALLY NOT SAFE FOR WORK.

So anyway Kitsa, how much did the debriding hurt? Did they give you any topical anesthetic to help with the pain, or did they order you to just scrub it raw?

[Tadao]

OW OW OW OW OW!

[Fathom Zero]

I am not looking at that. Sometimes, you just have to take someone's word for it.

[Kitsa]

It hurt like hell, no anesthesia, I just got in the shower stall, took a deep breath and scrubbed for all I was worth. As I said, almost puked a couple of times. But then again, I literally had chunks of broken glass hanging out of my knee, and who knows what was on or in that bottle before I landed on it.

The sensation of scrubbing was similar to horrible rugburn, but it was many hundreds of times worse than that.

[Jeanette X]

It hurt like hell, no anesthesia, I just got in the shower stall, took a deep breath and scrubbed for all I was worth. As I said, almost puked a couple of times. But then again, I literally had chunks of broken glass hanging out of my knee, and who knows what was on or in that bottle before I landed on it.

The sensation of scrubbing was similar to horrible rugburn, but it was many hundreds of times worse than that.

Jesus. They could've at least given you some lidocaine to numb it up a little. :x

Did it have to wet when you did it? I guess can see not giving anything if absolutely had to be wet to soften up the tissue...

[darkvare]

I mean this:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Skin_bridge

http://www.circumstitions.com/Restric/Botched1sb.html

REALLY, REALLY NOT SAFE FOR WORK.

So anyway Kitsa, how much did the debriding hurt? Did they give you any topical anesthetic to help with the pain, or did they order you to just scrub it raw?

well it was kinda like that except the flesh under it still wasn't healed so it was sticky and fleshy

i once feel on stones like thosse except the thing was my elbow broke and i had to get surgery with 4 nails to keep the bones in place, they took them of without anesthesia

[Jeanette X]

well it was kinda like that except the flesh under it still wasn't healed so it was sticky and fleshy

i once feel on stones like thosse except the thing was my elbow broke and i had to get surgery with 4 nails to keep the bones in place, they took them of without anesthesia
:x

Why no anesthesia?

[Dixie]

I DEMAND MORE!!!

[Kitsa]

For whatever reason I didn't get lidocaine. But then again, I didn't necessarily get along well with that coworker.

When the nurses didn't like someone, they would all fight over who got to give the coldest, thickest tetanus shot from the very back of the fridge. At least I got a room-temperature tetanus shot, so at least the nurses liked me.

And I may enjoy my alcohol, but I never thought in a million years I'd crash in a liquor store alley (the liquor store is that blue building at the top of the hill in the first pic). Even though I wasn't drunk.

[darkvare]

:x

Why no anesthesia?
i was feeling manly turns out it was a bad idea

[Jeanette X]

I DEMAND MORE!!!

There's some more in the guy's profile. None as good as the first two I posted, I'm afraid.

[Big McLargehuge]

i had this (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BWDKFubAwA4) surgery :o

[kahljorn]

Goodness ;o

the craziest health related thing that ever happened to me was when my wrists somehow got cut open and i bled everywhere and threw up a bunch and I could see what the inside of my wrists looked like.

[Big McLargehuge]

i was also dosed with radiation by this (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0Q6YZQiy-S0&feature=related) robot.

[Big McLargehuge]

also how bad did it hurt? i don't imagine there are many nerve endings in the wrists.

[kahljorn]

jesus man. I think if i ever had something like that id be too big of a coward to go through any of the therapies ;\ It seems painful ;\ was that robot as painful as radiation therapy usually is? I've heard that it burns all of your mucous membranes :O

hmm well i was drunk when i did it so it didn't really hurt very much or i dont remember clearly. I think it was stinging like a WHAT IS THAT STRANGE WIND type of way. i did sever a bunch of muscles though. The thing that hurt the worst was when they started stapling it together.
another time when i ODed I was almost deaf for like five days that was crazy ;o

MUSCLES LOOK LIKE POPPLERS

[Kitsa]

Radiation sucks but not as much as dying.

[kahljorn]

Maybe.

[Big McLargehuge]

my radiation wasn't that bad. food tasted weird, i lost a few patches of hair and now i feel like puking every time i smell acrylic paints. also i peed the bed :( it was a weird time.

[Kitsa]

I couldn't taste anything for a long time. I lost all the hair from my ear-level downward. Got pretty bad burns. That was 30 yrs ago...it gets funner with time! :D Wait till you start getting the muscle spasms.

[Dixie]

I didn't really have such issues with radiation.
It made me sick, but I was high as a kite all the time so I didn't notice much.
I remember throwing up at my desk alot though.

[Kitsa]

I think they're getting way better with dosing these days, but it still plays hell with your body.

[Big McLargehuge]

The robot that irradiated me is the most advanced medical robot, IN THE WORLD. It was out patient and only lasted a week. I love the things science does for us.