Message #191041

[Cajunjag]

While on the topic........True story from Lake Charles Memorial Hospital in 1989, I was there conducting my clinicals while in the process of completeing my paramedic training. I was working full time for the local ambulance service, so the ER staff was very familiar w/ me, and my capabilities. On a very busy Sunday afternoon, I has just finished starting and IV and was documenting my case on my clinical sheet when the charge nurse asked me to go to triage. A patient walked in and needed triage, but everyone was busy and the elderly male refused to tell the clerk what was wrong, he would only speak to a male attendant.

I arrived at the admit desk to see a man in his late 60's that was extremely pale, sweating, and in obvious distress. I immediately got a wheelchair and asked him to get in. When he stood, his trousers were dripping blood from his crotch. I wheel him in a room and remove his pants to find a small towel completely soaked in blood. Upon exam, his penis was "degloved" of skin. The story he told me, as he cried like a baby was that his buddy told him that the hose of a vacumn cleaner was as good as a woman. As he became excited, he filled the sides of the hose, then the pain of the constant suction became too much. Without thinking and in a panic, he ripped the hose off of he penis, pulling the skin of the shaft with him.

I was composed and attentive throughout his care..........until my good friend Dr. Pittman came in to begin his work! You see, as Dr. Pittman forcefully pierced his penis with a 21ga needle to inject a Lidocaine solution, he made the man promise to keep from getting an erection for 6 weeks. He was still crying when we discharged him to follow up with a urologist! I will never forget that case as long as I live and everytime I hear a vacumn cleaner going I bust out laughing!!!!