Vote Now: Things Found in the Vagina (That Shouldn’t Be)

Whatsup, MuFKRs! 🐾

Welcome back to Is It an Emergency? —  where healthcare workers share the moments that make you laugh, cringe, and question humanity.

This week’s theme: Unexpected treasures from the vagina.

Garlic… old tampons… forgotten condoms… you truly never know what you’ll find. Ah, the adventures of ER life.

👉 Cast Your Vote: Which of these vaginal discoveries left you the MOST speechless?

Working in the ER, I had a patient come in for a ‘funny smell down there’. She thought she had a retained tampon. I did the pelvic exam and found a rolled up wad of bills. Turns out she was a sex worker, and had been hiding money from her pimp, and ‘lost track’ of it for about a week. The part that grossed me out was that after the exam was done, she rinsed off the bills in the room sink, and laid them out on the bed to dry them out. Those bills went back into circulation.

A homeless patient came into the ER with an overdose. They ended up coding and being intubated. With every compression a new item fell out of their vagina. It was like a Mary popping bag full of items. First was some cocaine. Second was her keys. Another item was some syringes. And last but not least her most prized possession was her bag of skittles.

Patient came in for abd and vaginal pain. Upon doing a vaginal exam we extracted a potato. Not just any potato, a russet potato....growing roots. I asked my pt why....she said to use as a pessary...and that she changes them out "every so often" and that she must have forgotten this one 😭 not sure how to describe the smell of yeast cooked potato but I'll never forget

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Cheers to another week of ER adventures, MuFKRs!

— Steven