Today, we had a patient projectile vomiting in our ambulance. I didn't know she had puked on our cot until I found it with my bare hand at the hospital. FML
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Dead leaves, the first cold of the season and an umbrella flipped inside out: fall, the season of grace.
Today, I had a ride along in an ambulance. Being observant, I thought it was funny that a patient had to vomit. That was until I realized they couldn't control where they had to vomit. I spent the rest of the ambulance ride holding a vomit bag in front of the woman's face. Not so funny anymore. FML
Today, I held a container while a patient tried to throw up in it. She missed. FML
Today, working as an EMT on an ambulance, we had a patient who refused to accept that he had a massive GI bleed, despite the fact that bloody stool was flowing from his anus all over my ambulance. To make things worse, my EMT ride-along student puked all over the patient. FML
Today, I was volunteering at the hospital. This lady was calling the Nurses' Station, and I had to go see what she wanted. When I asked her what she needed, she mumbled something. As I leaned in closer to hear what she was saying, she threw up all over my face. Apparently, she was nauseous. FML
Today, while working at the hospital, I had a patient with a blocked bowel. It was so bad, feces were entering into her stomach. While leaning down to talk with her, she threw up. I was both vomited and defecated on at the same time. FML
Today, I was helping this girl to the nurse’s office because she was so sick that she could barely walk. About halfway there, she stopped and vomited on me. My jaw was dropped in shock when she threw up on me again. A little went into my mouth. FML
Today, I got projectile-vomited on while trying to administer meds to a patient. Twenty minutes later, a patient with schizophrenia threw his shitty diaper at my face. All this happened in the first hour of my 12-hour shift. I didn't bring any extra scrubs and I live an hour away from work. FML
Today, a mother and son were in my office. The kid wasn't feeling well and threw up. Mom covered his mouth with her hand, creating a vomit nozzle and covering me in puke. She yelled that I deserved to be sprayed on because I was not quick enough in getting a bucket for her son. FML
Today, I was at my job as a dental assistant and I was told to take an X-ray of a woman's teeth. As soon as I put the foam piece into her mouth, she projectile-vomited all over me and the floor. I had just started my 5-hour shift. FML
Today, at work at daycare, this kid was coughing really bad, so I put my hand in front of his mouth in case he was choking on something so he could spit it out. But nope he wasn't choking, he was sick. He puked right into my hands. FML
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BurnInDemonFire 39
Nature of the beast. Although, if that's the worst thing that's happened to you since you became an EMT, you ain't seen nothin', yet.
yeongji 31
EMS once rolled a patient into the ED who managed to projectile vomit past the mask they had on her. The mask made it worse since is sprayed in every direction, and that was not even the worst part. The worst part was that most of it landed onto the paramedic in front of her (head to toe) and the patient was diagnosed with meningitis.
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BurnInDemonFire 39
Nature of the beast. Although, if that's the worst thing that's happened to you since you became an EMT, you ain't seen nothin', yet.
yeongji 31
EMS once rolled a patient into the ED who managed to projectile vomit past the mask they had on her. The mask made it worse since is sprayed in every direction, and that was not even the worst part. The worst part was that most of it landed onto the paramedic in front of her (head to toe) and the patient was diagnosed with meningitis.
distortedcognition 17
And why weren’t you wearing gloves until the cot was sanitized? YDI
Peaches1914 13
Weren’t you wearing gloves?