Keep in mind folks, that the people doing your bowel surgery are the ones who do them all day every day. So, no need to be embarrassed in the OR. We really just think about the job we have to do, and are not bothered by the everyday human anatomy and/or function. Keep in mind that we are really there to help.
As someone who has recently had bowel surgeries, this makes me feel better about stinking up the place. My surgery saved my life, and all that hard work and care is very much appreciated. ❤
I had to have 2 bowel surgeries this year. My last one was almost a month ago now. My poor surgeon 😢 my first surgery involved a large bowel abscess. Imagining what he had to go through to save my life makes me even more appreciative than I was before. Then we had to do it again to reverse my colostomy. Bless that man and his operating team
@@limabima77 Absolutely! It depends though, there are some cases where the Colostomy/Ileostomy cannot be reversed, and some people even choose to keep it because they have a better quality of life with it. In my case, thankfully it was able to be reversed and I’m doing a lot better now ever since.
I have had 3 surgeries for ruptured small bowels due to obstructions. I've almost died because of these. I was septic. I continue to have bowel obstructions, and there's nothing to stop them.
My dad’s a surgeon and was working on a patient with Uterine complications. One of his workers farted in the room and they thought they punctured her colon……… he had to let everyone know he farted, or else they would’ve pulled a drastic move.
Just one more reason to thank and truly appreciate these people. Thanks to everyone in the health care network. Right down to the guy or lady who mops the floors. Hats off to everyone and we all need to be thankful to have these types of people ❤👍👍👍👍👍👍🇨🇦
So true! Thanks for your comment. I even took flowers to the lady in the cafe cause she came personally to ask me about my food choices and made sure it was right. When I was released, I took flowers to her and the ER. Why? They saw me at my absolute lowest.
Wow i know this is true, because I worked at Starbucks for 2 years. I got all the free espresso I wanted, and took well advantage of it. My clothes had a coffee after-smell for months afterwards, just because it was still coming out of my pores lol. Let me tell you, the caffeine withdrawal symptoms my first week post Starbucks were brutal! I think I may have been legally handicapped that entire week lol 🎉
For sure. I had a lower GI bleed. Like really low in my system basically at the edge of the colon. It was varices. So just enlarged veins bursting into a fountain of blood. Anyway it smelt like DEATH. Seriously it doesn't just smell bad. You instinctually just know it is bad. I don't know how to explain it really, but it is like your body just knows that something is horribly wrong. Almost like you've known that smell, and it is the smell of disease. If that is what a lower GI bleed smells like. I can't imagine an upper one as I hear they are even worse.
Getting my pilonidal cyst drained , really made me understand this.... and I was so embarrassed but the docs seemed to find it normal. Thank you all amazing docs who soothed me
@victoriastod9328 Same, the doc didn't even prescribe me pain meds cause I said I partake in the w33d 🤣 it was a month of hellish uncomfortable events , but at least I could sleep on my back without my upper-a$$ leaking 🥲😇 lmao. Hope you healed well , too
True. When my ex husband had several surgeries after being shot in the abdomen, his room would smell awful when his bowels would tear from time to time. I can only imagine how the OR smelled. It's an odor you can't forget. Shoutout to the doctors and nurses for giving him incredible care.
It's the smell all of us have. That's why the WC has water to keep the fecal matter gas maybe 50% less stinky, besides water also clean the WC. But in the operation room, doctors have to manage waste in other way. To be a doctor you must have tolerance to very disgusting odors, in addition to see unpleasant situations. 🥇🏆👍
@@lauratarango8225 Absolutely. Growing up I would think to myself that our insides have to smell horrible. From his situation, I found out it was true. Lolol
My apologies to the surgical staff at Cleveland Clinic 33 years ago! Due to Crohns Disease, my colon was removed, and a psoas abscess drained. While I was blissfully unaware, the staff was exposed to the worst smells known to man! Happy to report that I am 62 yo now and thanks to a biologic medication, in remission. 😊
Yay! Very happy for you. I wish this Dr would mention the fact that they have, & utilize, several ways to effectively block even the most intense odors from their sense of smell. They know its there, but they don't smell it.
Having worked on many wards for Haematology, the worst is bowel surgery wards. The smell hits as soon as you enter but everyone from nursing to clerical staff go about as if it’s the norm. I had four children and had difficulty changing their nappies after a number 2.. my ex husband did them! Blood and body parts hanging off I have no problem. Isn’t it strange what we can and can’t tolerate??
I get it. I cannot handle loose teeth. My kids knew there was absolutely not a tooth fairy because I would pay them their $5 to go see their Dad! Nope! I'll drive to the dentist before I'm pulling that! 😂
@@OriginalMeanGirl gosh I loved pulling my children’s baby teeth out… again I started life as a dental nurse/ technician so in a creepy way I felt a sense of relief getting their teeth out! 😳The going rate has changed since my children were young.. it was about 50p a tooth plus ice cream!! 😁
@@Spectorbladethat’s just it though. OR’s have good ventilation. But even the best ventilation can’t take care of the odor of rotting flesh from an infection. Or even burnt flesh.
I'm sure it does have good ventilation, but even the best ventilation systems can't remove the smell of your bowls being operated on till the surgery is over.
Or rooms are designed with all of these things in mind. They're set at certain temperatures for a reason,the air blows for certain reasons.Plus theirs regulations as well.I'm pretty sure they designed it correctly.
I couldn't breathe through my nose for like 20 years. Saw a bunch of doctors. They put me on antibiotics,told me to use tylenol.... i got to the point my friends told me I smelled like dog breath !. One day, i realized my face felt heavy. I also developed vertigo. Then I had a stroke at 33. I tried to see up my nose, but could not. I tried to put something into my nose,to find an opening, but couldn't. After that, I wasn't having any more. I demanded a doc. check it out. She said I may have MS, so sent me for an MRI !. Long story short, I had a cyst in each sinus, not a polyp. The ENT had never seen the like !. It took a surgery to drain & remove them. They were stuck to the very bone.....UGH ! It was so tender & the taste was awful ! Ugh !!!
Maybe. But it might save you from feeling humilited by bodily problems & odors, if heaven forbid one day you ever experience bowel issues that require surgery.
I was an xray tech for years. Gangrene was one of the worst things I have ever smelled! And of course, having to go to the morgue was horrible, especially if it was a body that had been dead for a while, and we were looking for a bullet or whatever! No amout of Vicks, you'd shove up your nose would help!!
@nosferatadentata965 Yes, absolutely! Sometimes we would have to take a shower and change clothes! But it's like you could still smell it for the rest of the day! Gangrene is the same. It sort of just floods the whole department, and the smell lingers forever!
@beverlypeterson291 Bless your heart! I don't have to make anything up! I worked at several hospitals! Just because you haven't experienced it does not mean it isn't true! I have seen horrible things! I had to work trauma in the ER for years! Also, I had to work in the OR as well. I have a ton of crazy, unimaginable stories from my career as a radiologic technologist! I hope you never have to experience what I have seen! Best wishes, buddy!
I am a retired Care Manager from Agency on Aging. I did a lot of Older Adult Protective Services investigations. Always, always put the old Vicks on my upper lip and around nasal openings, tea tree oil along my hairline (lice deterrent) sprayed my pants and shoes with bed bug repellent because we usually had some idea of what we might be walking into!
@@marshataylor3703 Wow, that’s a lot of work just to go into someone’s home. I work in child welfare and have to do monthly home visits for about 40 kids and I’ve never done any “prep” and I’ve been in some pretty nasty homes. The only issue I ever take out with me is the cigarette smoke that seems to stick to me. I always have to drive home with my car windows down.
You have gift of expressing yourself yet soooo properly. Your body language is hilarious. Thx you for helping ME. Intelligent, compassionate and humor.!!! Merci'
We can really be nasty on the inside. My son had a cyst removed from his back and that was really hard to watch and smell. My hat goes off for all the amazing medical staff!
Was it an epidural abcess? I'm asking because I had that and needed emergency surgery. Five and a half months in hospital. Well, three different hospitals and my pain was never addressed because, as I found out two weeks before going home, the emergency doctor that I saw first at that time deemed me to be a drug seeker. That was a Friday. On Monday my friend insisted we go back and they found a mass on my back. I couldn't do anything for that weekend before my friend came over and took me back to the hospital because I couldn't really move and I looked so terrible. That was a few years ago and I'm not really much better. I hope you son faired better than I did. Wishing him and you and your loved ones well!!!😊
@@HappyMomma412 Aww, thanks! I just noticed that I wrote access instead of access! I just edited it now. I wouldn't have noticed if you hadn't replied which was very sweet of you, so here's a big hug thank you!!! I love your pp of your kitty! The first friend was worried about me and convinced me to go on the Friday. Too bad I got that quack of a doctor!! By Monday another friend, another doctor, and quite a different outcome!! I am always going to get another opinion or 2 more from now on, and I advise everyone to do the same! Notice they call it an opinion and not diagnosis. They're CTA and that makes it seem that your health is secondary. They don't have to confirm an opinion, so getting it right isn't highly important to them. Anyway, thanks for your kind thoughts and words. I sincerely hope that you and your loved ones keep well. Health and time are so precious and I wish you the best of each!!!
@@Unknownentityfelineall doctors think we are drug seekers. No matter who I go to. I now have kidney disease because I took Celebrex for my pain. It’s an NSAID. That wasn’t even a narcotic.
First off...God Bless ALL the Surgeons for what you do. Second...God Bless ALL of you that have these things going on...my heart breaks for you...I pray, that you don't need anymore surgeries, and you all heal...I can't imagine it 🙏
I had C-diff twice! Smell of death, it was awful! My whole house would smell when I used toilet until the antibiotics kicked in! Thank heaven it was spring and warm enough out to open windows and run fans!
GI smell hurts just thinking about it and that was more than 15 years ago. And at the time I was only patient registration. Oh and c-diff was amazing too the smell lit up both Pods of the ER.
I remember a staph infection that I had a few years back and man! It stunk so bad when I had to pull out gauze every day, a foot of gauze per day for about a week or more. I also had a nasty spider bite on the middle of my back once, and my poor roommate had to help me drain the fluid. It smelled a lot like the infection too. Just awful! Our bodies can produce some things that will make flatulence smell like damn roses!
I had a nasty hobo spider bite on my lower leg. It necrotized my tissues and made a crater in my leg. It took 1 whole year to heal the wound. It now is level with the leg, no more crater, but a have a 50 cent sized scar that's dark Grey. What a painful ordeal!! Wound care, dermatologist, antibiotics... nasty, nasty wound. I hate spiders!! 😢
I had a root canal on a molar that had been loooong infected. Had argued over and over I needed antibiotics for it, but my face wasn't swelling up so they didn't believe me >.> THE SMELL when they started digging, coming from my own mouth T.T that whole thing took twice as long as necessary because they had to clean it out. (And that void caused problems down the line too)
@@sabias3932Idk how similar it is but I just got these insanely infected, impacted wisdom teeth out, and it was nothing relief! No swelling either, but getting that nasty tooth out is soooo nice, you'll be great!!!
@@sabias3932don’t be scared, usually there isn’t a bad smell. And even if there was a smell they would quickly clean you up and don’t think about it anymore 🤗
Agreed. I did an emergency bowel resection at 2 am. This person had not had a bowel movement in 2 weeks. They went to sleep and immediate started to vomit fecal material. It smelled just like chicken crap. I have a pretty strong stomach but at 2 am we were all gagging.
I don't know how you would even deal with that situation when the person is anesthetized. That sounds absolutely horrifying. Did you at least clean out their mouth before waking them up? The fact that it had even backed up into the stomach sounds really dangerous.
Pharmaceutical pain "medicine", and many "medicines" for that matter, need to be replaced by natural medicine (real medicine, as was intended) as they cause terrible constipation (that's how Elvis died). But, as this dr has fessed up to, our medical system is completely broken. There's absolutely no desire to heal anyone. Only a desire for profit and depopulation (in the process of making their money) exist.
@@emiliaa8132my grandpa got increased dosage of pain meds recently... no fiber and over the table laxatives have helped him. Its only when he takes less that its resolved. This alongside other medical difficulties proves that fiber isnt always the solution.
Also another place that can stink so bad is a woman’s bathroom!! Even thou I’m a woman I still never thought women could smell as bad as they do at times. I really try to avoid public bathrooms for this reason. If I have to go I’ll use them but I’ve seriously smelled some God awful smells in a woman’s bathroom.
Are you a JW? 😂😂😂 Because assemblies are the only time I've ever truly gagged from the smell of a women's bathroom... My mom and I were tasked with cleaning it. (I didn't allow anyone in when we were done! They could go to the one up front)!
Many women are also puking in their due to rampant bulimia (guys have it too but higher in girls). It's also a function of cleaning or now and ..ventilation. If the pails are not emptied regularly and have the nasty old pads and tampons
I taught my ex husband to look at things differently when he would be dating again. Women are dirtier than men a lot of times. He's seen the contrast and has thanked me repeatedly. Thanks for being brave to mention.
😂 I’m a Nurse and a fart is nothing compared to what we come up against in the hospital! If you have been around a person with a Gastrointestinal Intestinal Bleed or C-DIFF you know what I mean. That funk permeates your hair, scrubs, skin, your nostrils. You only get that smell off of you is when you take a shower and blow your nose.
😲😲😲 😖😖😖 😝😝😝 I'm sorry! 😔😔😔 😳😳😳 🥺🥺🥺 Would keeping our entire intestinal tract clean help... like hydrocolonic or herbal colon cleansing?? 🤔🤔🤔 🤷🏽♀️ 🤷🏽♀️ 🤷🏽♀️ I know you can do nothing to lessen the odor when it is an infection. 😝😝😝 ☹️☹️☹️ 😬😬😬
So in veterinary medicine there are a few very distinct smells that you can tell as soon as the dog comes in…. Fly strike (maggots eating their flesh somewhere), parvovirus, and HGE (hemorrhagic gastroenteritis). Also there is a woman who can smell Parkinson’s. Pretty interesting stuff.
Dude wasn’t around to smell the barn when we had to pull a dead calf out of its mother. It was so rotten that it’s hooves fell off and it’s teeth came out while trying to get it out. Even with gloves on, our hands smelled for days. It was horrific.
@@ukmedicfrcs of course we knew she was pregnant. The calf died sometime before birth, days to probably a week or more. We had no idea it had died until she went into labor and had trouble.
@@RoyalBlue4486 If you knew she was pregnant why didn't you know about the calf? It had to be a lot longer than a week for the calf to come out the way you described.
Whew! Let’s hope I never need bowel surgery because my farts alone can not only peel pain off walls but burn every piece of furniture inside that building in under 30 seconds 🤣
OK, that means something is wrong. Either your diet is not right for your body, or your body is not functioning properly. I hope you will get diagnosed and healed.
As an OR nurse I can tell you that you can smell some horrendous things for sure; open bowels, decubitus ulcers, abscesses from anywhere, bloody, fleshly c-sections, laps (towels) and sponges, all kinds of stuff! The worst for me was the decubitus ulcers and poop! Plus the ulcers were horrendous to look at with dead flesh and holes eaten into someone’s flesh. The biggest one I ever saw was on someone’s bum and you could probably have placed a basketball inside because of how deep it was. I always wondered if that person lived or not after leaving surgery. Thank God, I believe the surgeon washed that out and I didn’t have to. It would have been difficult not to vomit.
A dab of Vics Vaporup under the nose, or a few drops of oil of wintergreen on the mask help cover up the awful smells one encounters during surgery or autopsy.
I watched this video the night before my surgery, I couldn’t sleep thinking I was going to poop all over the OR! 😅 I even apologize to everyone in the OR as I entered in case it happened 😮😢😢😅😂🎉
I went septic going on 3 days because my bowels perforated after a bowel resection. And i was eating for half of that time, everything ended up making it so much worse. They said they used over 120L of warm saline to clean me out and even then i had to get an ileostomy and 3 drains because of the bad infection.
Here in NYC there is some homeless guy who walks around the streets half naked and with whatever clothing he is wearing smeared with feces and he has his red ostomy apparatus showing on his abdomen but it is not attached to any colostomy bag so the guy has all his excrements smeared all over him and it seems he is proud to expose himself this way.
And yet another reason why I would never work in the medical field. The blood, smelly stuff, Bylou, patients, etc. Big up to anyone else willing to do it.
For years I saw what they are capable of,@@Diarrheagod. Never had to deal with bodily waste or fluids. I did get to know & care about them and saw them get better. I'll take it any day over another hospital/institution/facility with beds for patients. I was around those enough to know I had a strong preference.
True, but psych patients are mostly ambulatory and you aren't cleaning GI bleed c diff. They are also not on a vent in a psych unit, so suctioning sputum, etc...@@Diarrheagod
I've had nearly twenty surgeries in my lifetime, But that bowel resection... that was the worst thing I ever had to heal from. I pray nobody ever has to experience that!!! The tube alone that goes in your nose down into your stomach to suction out the gastric juices, man, that was the worst thing I've ever experienced!!!!!
I can relate,in 2021 I was shot three times and Rob, I had gotten a colostomy bag, and it was placed in a though spot due to were I was shot.and it came off while I was asleep.Omg,the sell was something that Ive never smell, I was so imbarrus , depression PTSD and anxiety, kick in.😮😂
I insisted my surgeon save my gallstones 🪨 for me. Day after surgery i got curious and opened specimen container 😮 the stink gave me whole new appreciation for surgeon 😷 so much for my 🤔 thinking about making a necklace out of the gallstones 😂❤
One of the worst smells as an NP is having to drain a Pilonidal cyst (base of the spine cyst). Dear God, I wear a mask but the smell of infection just permeates through the room and into the nostrils. Myself and my nurse silently gag every time.
As an ER/OR/ICU/CCU/Trauma Nurse, I can attest to this statement. I used to spray my expensive cologne on the inside of my OR Mask, for times like this.😅 I actually had 7" of my large intestine removed, as it was necrotic, massively infected, and getting ready to rupture, as it had a complete twist on itself. I had a doctor mess up my Hysterectomy 6 months prior, where she had impaled my small bowel with a Trocar, closed me up without checking. The next day I was rushed back into surgery for a small bowel excision with reanastamosis. The surgeon who saved my life left my original doctor to close. Huge mistake, as she just threw my bowels back into my abdominal cavity, thereby, twisting my large bowel. I kept having to take Antibiotics for 6 months due to the huge hot spot under my left breast. Oh....I was in ICU, where I worked, for 7 days the first time. I had Peritonitis & Septicemia Six months later....yep....emergency surgery...7" of LG bowel removed, in ICU for 6 days. My surgeon filed complaint against the first surgeon for almost killing me....TWICE in 6 months. The pathology OR report described my surgery and the findings, Including the smell.....perfectly. Embarrassing, but I am so grateful to that surgeon! I fired my Doctor, never filed a suit. But received a nice settlement from her, as my surgeon is the one who filed on my behalf. The Board took her Surgical credentials away....revoked and limited her hospital licensure. Last time I heard, my ex doctor was retaking her Surgical rotation in an internship. Hope she does better 😊
From one nurse to another, I will pray for you and any c-ptsd most of us have, including our own medical trauma which lights the match. I'm out of the system as a nurse and patient now. I am glad you are okay, and you had support.
You are lucky that you survived. Was having high fevers on the way home from Mexico. I had an appointment with my neurologist and he took one look at me and asked if I wanted an ambulance or could I get to the ER on my own. I said I have a car so I will drive there. I got lost in my own neighborhood. I had called my husband and he called our next door neighbors and asked them to take me to the ER. In the end I got admitted to the ICU because I take immune lowering medication. I don’t remember being in ICU for about 8-9 days, then step down unit for 2 weeks, had a PICC line placed and was on IV antibiotics for a month at home, and was put on oral antibiotics for 2 months. The ER doctor came to see me (I’m a PA that worked in ER) and he said they were seriously worried about my survival when I showed up with a fever of 105. I was delirious. It was salmonella septicemia big time. Even the after care was to see a cardiologist because the valves in my heart looked infected to the radiologist. It is very different experience being a patient rather than a provider.
Omgggg what an experience you have. Glad you pulled through. Was operated in February 2024 I’m still recuperating and it wasn’t easy. CA had a total Hysterectomy.
As someone whos had many GI bleeds requiring emergency surgeries, i can tell you that bloody poop is some of the worst smelling things. You never forget it once you've smelled it!🤢
I worked for a podiatrist that rented "after hours" space in an OB office. Prior to us coming in for "foot" patients one day, a woman had a prolapsed uterus... I'm here to tell you, the smell was horrifying! We sprayed, cleaned, etc...everyone was wretching !!
I read a story about a surgeon who was performing surgery on a woman who had an EXTREMELY LARGE ABCESS to her abdominal area. He said that upon lancing the abcess, EXTREMELY LARGE AMOUNTS OF HORRIBLY SMELLING PUS immediately shot out, with so much force, that it sprayed onto the wall...it made a coating on the floor and they were walking in it. It smelled so bad, that a nurse had to go throw up into a sink. He said that they keep a small container of this smell neutralizer in a cupboard,(you take some and stick it in your nostrils) and when one of the techs went to get it, IT WAS EMPTY! No one bothered to replace it or tell anyone that it was empty! He said it took everything in him to not vomit or walk away. (The guy telling the story was more descriptive and detailed regarding the story) I honestly felt bad for them! Lol I have smelled pressure wounds that are vomit inducing. Smells way worse than diarrhea or other forms of shit!!!
I believe you are referring to the medical story known as "The swamps of Dagobah" I have read the full story regarding the incident and it was caused by that woman putting an illicit drug injection to her taint.
@UBNsoldier I believe that was the case, regarding drug use, but it was on reddit. I don't remember the title, but I DEFINITELY remember the description!
Having had 4+ sm bowel resections (multiple obstructions from adhesions) in the past 8 yrs, 10/23, I was scheduled for another & put myself thru a bowel prep prior to it, hoping it would make things easier for the surgical team. As a retired nurse I know there are smells you just never forget.
Yessss. I'm a RNFA , and had a total colectomy,,, so I have been on both sides of the table. Yess stinky is right. I personally like like to put Vicks vapo rub in my nose in a shiny surgery. I hate the peppermint oil trick.
I worked in a hospital, and I'll never forget the time the OR nurses sent 10 lbs of necrotic, impacted bowel from the OR to the lab through the tube delivery system (think bank drive-thru vacuum tube) that was meant for small biopsies. We heard it pinging all the way thru the hospital. The bowel got there before the tube did, but when my coworker opened the door to retrieve the tube, it blew that literal gut rot all over her, the counter, the wall behind her. We all puked. They had to call out a maintenance team to clean and sterilize the whole vacuum system. It was absolutely the worst shid I've ever seen. No pun intended.
Fun story 2 years ago i got a sleeve operation where they open your stomach and cut in half so you loose wait slowly right after i woke up i felt a lot of pain i told my doctor he didn’t believe me because i was on lots of pain meds 2 days later couldn’t move mi right side my mom took me to another hospital right away after some test turns out i had a serious lung infection on my right side and could loose it because of bacteria in the operating room 😊
I don't know, man. My farts have woken me up out of a dead sleep while gagging & everything. Eyes all bloodshot and teary. It's been so bad that I've cried! Have you guys cried because these smells were so bad? I quit eating for a bit just to give myself a break. 😶 🤭
@@Sara-wv3ms Ohh, it's alright! It's not deadly... 🤭 Feels like it sometimes waking up under the covers! 😅 Some of us just love the things we probably shouldn't have. No harm, no foul. Have a nice day! 😉
Once had a patient come through with some form of bowel cancer and a full stomach, they ended up cutting them open because waste was leaking into their abdominal cavity, stunk up the ENTIRE floor trying to rinse it out, it was slightly disturbing to see someone’s hand moving around intestines like they were. Your farts smell fine, your guts smell HORRIBLE.
My uncle passed away in a hospital and nobody was saying anything about the smell. So I had to ask them to please clean him up and then we can all come back in. When you die, your bowels release and he was an opiate addict too so you can only imagine how blocked he must've been.
Well smells calm down when refridgerated! But yes when you open a pus cavity or similar it would stink. But cold better than heated. And the room can be kept way colder while working without worrying about the patient!
I have to agree. The worst is a three week old corpse found in water. 🤮🤢 in school our classroom was next to the autopsy suite and above the exhaust for the state coroner’s autopsy suite. Windows closed you could still smell that sweet sickly odor…. Or the smell of acidosis in a patient with kidney failure. TB…. TB lungs have a distinctive smell like rancid moldy food and old hamburger. Bowel contents is nothing in comparison!
I am going in for an upper GI procedure , thank you for this info , will be apologizing to the medical staff ahead of it just in case I have anything of a not so pleasant smell. Have worked on the ventilation system for surgery rooms, they vent the air only they are designed to eliminate odor
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Keep in mind folks, that the people doing your bowel surgery are the ones who do them all day every day. So, no need to be embarrassed in the OR. We really just think about the job we have to do, and are not bothered by the everyday human anatomy and/or function. Keep in mind that we are really there to help.
As someone who has recently had bowel surgeries, this makes me feel better about stinking up the place.
My surgery saved my life, and all that hard work and care is very much appreciated. ❤
Right...😆
That’s very re- assuring,
I suppose the advantage for the patient is they don’t care when they are under a general!
So nice of u to ease the minds of people that may to embarrassed to even seek help. So THANK YOU👍✨💪✨
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I could not be a doctor.
Blessings to all medical doctors and staff.❤
You get used to everything to be honest. By the time you’re graduating and doing internship you would have been strong
My aunt is one and she became vegan 😂😂😂😂😂 cus meat remind her of her patients inside lmaooooo
@@saimanda_ lmao fair enough
I had to have 2 bowel surgeries this year. My last one was almost a month ago now. My poor surgeon 😢 my first surgery involved a large bowel abscess. Imagining what he had to go through to save my life makes me even more appreciative than I was before. Then we had to do it again to reverse my colostomy. Bless that man and his operating team
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You can reverse a colostomy surgery??!! I never knew that.
@@limabima77 Absolutely! It depends though, there are some cases where the Colostomy/Ileostomy cannot be reversed, and some people even choose to keep it because they have a better quality of life with it. In my case, thankfully it was able to be reversed and I’m doing a lot better now ever since.
@@Suenami89good for you. I wish you lots of health. I cant be reversed but i have better qua of life
I have had 3 surgeries for ruptured small bowels due to obstructions. I've almost died because of these. I was septic. I continue to have bowel obstructions, and there's nothing to stop them.
My dad’s a surgeon and was working on a patient with Uterine complications. One of his workers farted in the room and they thought they punctured her colon……… he had to let everyone know he farted, or else they would’ve pulled a drastic move.
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How funny 😂😂😂
Good story but you'd know immediately before you could smell if it you hit the colon...
That is hilarious 😂
Another BS RUclips story...
Just one more reason to thank and truly appreciate these people. Thanks to everyone in the health care network. Right down to the guy or lady who mops the floors. Hats off to everyone and we all need to be thankful to have these types of people ❤👍👍👍👍👍👍🇨🇦
That’s nice of you, thank you 🥰
@@tracyloftus3237 you as well for taking the time to respond. Ty for that 👍 🇨🇦
So true! Thanks for your comment. I even took flowers to the lady in the cafe cause she came personally to ask me about my food choices and made sure it was right. When I was released, I took flowers to her and the ER. Why? They saw me at my absolute lowest.
@@autumnsmom1117 very nice and I'm certain she appreciated it. What this world needs is more people like you in it 🙏👍🇨🇦
when i had a c section i drank so much coffee the operating room smelled like starbucks my doctor was like u have to ease up on the coffee lol
😂😂😂😂😂😂 You're killing me! LMBO!
Wow i know this is true, because I worked at Starbucks for 2 years. I got all the free espresso I wanted, and took well advantage of it. My clothes had a coffee after-smell for months afterwards, just because it was still coming out of my pores lol. Let me tell you, the caffeine withdrawal symptoms my first week post Starbucks were brutal! I think I may have been legally handicapped that entire week lol 🎉
If you smelled like that after a C-section, something is VERY wrong! They would've had to cut into the bowel, kidney, or bladder to smell anything.
I found someone speaking of caffeine withdrawal disaster, 😵💫ppl near me think it doesn't exist, tat headache 🤌🤌🤌
Why u drinking starbucks while prego hopefully decafe
I have a whole new respect for all surgical staff!
For sure. I had a lower GI bleed. Like really low in my system basically at the edge of the colon. It was varices. So just enlarged veins bursting into a fountain of blood.
Anyway it smelt like DEATH. Seriously it doesn't just smell bad. You instinctually just know it is bad. I don't know how to explain it really, but it is like your body just knows that something is horribly wrong. Almost like you've known that smell, and it is the smell of disease.
If that is what a lower GI bleed smells like. I can't imagine an upper one as I hear they are even worse.
Getting my pilonidal cyst drained , really made me understand this.... and I was so embarrassed but the docs seemed to find it normal. Thank you all amazing docs who soothed me
Google does say that having an infected spot on a bum is common…
ME TOOOO
@victoriastod9328 Same, the doc didn't even prescribe me pain meds cause I said I partake in the w33d 🤣 it was a month of hellish uncomfortable events , but at least I could sleep on my back without my upper-a$$ leaking 🥲😇 lmao. Hope you healed well , too
I'm seeing mostly girls here saying they had one. GOOGLE LIES when it tells its more common in men!
What did it smell like? I have no idea.
True. When my ex husband had several surgeries after being shot in the abdomen, his room would smell awful when his bowels would tear from time to time. I can only imagine how the OR smelled. It's an odor you can't forget.
Shoutout to the doctors and nurses for giving him incredible care.
It's the smell all of us have. That's why the WC has water to keep the fecal matter gas maybe 50% less stinky, besides water also clean the WC. But in the operation room, doctors have to manage waste in other way. To be a doctor you must have tolerance to very disgusting odors, in addition to see unpleasant situations. 🥇🏆👍
@@lauratarango8225 Absolutely. Growing up I would think to myself that our insides have to smell horrible. From his situation, I found out it was true. Lolol
Former anesthesia tech here. He's right. Most important item on the anesthesia cart? Oil of wintergreen. 😖😵
Vicks vapor rub.
Where do I buy that?. Seriously.
Amen! 😊
Eucalyptus oil
Mastisol if you have nothing else
I never thought about that. Thanks medical folks for your service to the rest of us.
My apologies to the surgical staff at Cleveland Clinic 33 years ago! Due to Crohns Disease, my colon was removed, and a psoas abscess drained. While I was blissfully unaware, the staff was exposed to the worst smells known to man! Happy to report that I am 62 yo now and thanks to a biologic medication, in remission. 😊
Me too, said they had all my intestines laid out to clean, then took out affected area
@@pennyhochhalter3065Wow!
Yay! Very happy for you.
I wish this Dr would mention the fact that they have, & utilize, several ways to effectively block even the most intense odors from their sense of smell. They know its there, but they don't smell it.
Been there… done that! LoL
But my motto is…”He who smelt it, dealt it! Aka Queee frap’pe? Translated into English is “ Who Farted?”
33 years sounds awful like a traveling sir
Massive respect for GI docs and anyone in those surgeries 😷
Having worked on many wards for Haematology, the worst is bowel surgery wards. The smell hits as soon as you enter but everyone from nursing to clerical staff go about as if it’s the norm. I had four children and had difficulty changing their nappies after a number 2.. my ex husband did them! Blood and body parts hanging off I have no problem. Isn’t it strange what we can and can’t tolerate??
I get it. I cannot handle loose teeth. My kids knew there was absolutely not a tooth fairy because I would pay them their $5 to go see their Dad! Nope! I'll drive to the dentist before I'm pulling that! 😂
@@OriginalMeanGirl gosh I loved pulling my children’s baby teeth out… again I started life as a dental nurse/ technician so in a creepy way I felt a sense of relief getting their teeth out! 😳The going rate has changed since my children were young.. it was about 50p a tooth plus ice cream!! 😁
May God bless those that know how to fix that problem. Surgeon and anesthesiologists are angels ❤
That room has a serious ventilation problem. If they are going to do bowel surgeries in there, they need good engineers to re-design the ventilation.
It wouldn’t matter, because as long as you are open up the smell just keeps going, and venting out doesn’t stop the smell it just moves it
@@Im-From-the-starsso we don’t want to move it? That’s the point of the ventilation bruh🤦♂️
@@Spectorbladethat’s just it though. OR’s have good ventilation. But even the best ventilation can’t take care of the odor of rotting flesh from an infection. Or even burnt flesh.
I'm sure it does have good ventilation, but even the best ventilation systems can't remove the smell of your bowls being operated on till the surgery is over.
Or rooms are designed with all of these things in mind. They're set at certain temperatures for a reason,the air blows for certain reasons.Plus theirs regulations as well.I'm pretty sure they designed it correctly.
I love you tube makes sure I know this is from a licensed doctor.
😂😂😂 I thought the same thing 😂😂😂
I couldn't breathe through my nose for like 20 years. Saw a bunch of doctors. They put me on antibiotics,told me to use tylenol.... i got to the point my friends told me I smelled like dog breath !.
One day, i realized my face felt heavy. I also developed vertigo. Then I had a stroke at 33. I tried to see up my nose, but could not. I tried to put something into my nose,to find an opening, but couldn't.
After that, I wasn't having any more. I demanded a doc. check it out. She said I may have MS, so sent me for an MRI !.
Long story short, I had a cyst in each sinus, not a polyp. The ENT had never seen the like !. It took a surgery to drain & remove them. They were stuck to the very bone.....UGH ! It was so tender & the taste was awful ! Ugh !!!
Where? Is it just in the US? Like I don’t have any pop up
Yes, and the smell is still in your nose long after the surgery has been finished.
@annakopyl269 no, I can see it from Russia. İt's right at the bottom of the video ⬇️
i could’ve gone my whole life without this information
😂
AMEN
Maybe. But it might save you from feeling humilited by bodily problems & odors, if heaven forbid one day you ever experience bowel issues that require surgery.
But now your life is complete! 🤣😊
True. 😮
I was an xray tech for years. Gangrene was one of the worst things I have ever smelled! And of course, having to go to the morgue was horrible, especially if it was a body that had been dead for a while, and we were looking for a bullet or whatever! No amout of Vicks, you'd shove up your nose would help!!
Yeah, I've heard that the smell of dead body kinda clings onto all the surfaces, hair in your nostrils included
@nosferatadentata965 Yes, absolutely! Sometimes we would have to take a shower and change clothes! But it's like you could still smell it for the rest of the day! Gangrene is the same. It sort of just floods the whole department, and the smell lingers forever!
Good grief, if you’re gonna make things up, at least try to sound educated 😩
@beverlypeterson291 Bless your heart! I don't have to make anything up! I worked at several hospitals! Just because you haven't experienced it does not mean it isn't true! I have seen horrible things! I had to work trauma in the ER for years! Also, I had to work in the OR as well. I have a ton of crazy, unimaginable stories from my career as a radiologic technologist! I hope you never have to experience what I have seen! Best wishes, buddy!
Ah yes, the ol' cadaverine and putrascene dead body smells... 🙄🤢🤮😵
Good job all you doctors, nurses and other medical staff
Keep up the good work you are doing. 😊
We used to put vicks vapor rub under our hospital masks when need be. 😅
Yess that's my hack when changing my baby's diapers lol
We used oil of wintergreen in our masks in endoscopy, for lower GI bleeds in particular.
I am a retired Care Manager from Agency on Aging. I did a lot of Older Adult Protective Services investigations. Always, always put the old Vicks on my upper lip and around nasal openings, tea tree oil along my hairline (lice deterrent) sprayed my pants and shoes with bed bug repellent because we usually had some idea of what we might be walking into!
@@marshataylor3703Dear Lord!! Your job sounds positively ghastly, but God bless you for doing it.
@@marshataylor3703
Wow, that’s a lot of work just to go into someone’s home. I work in child welfare and have to do monthly home visits for about 40 kids and I’ve never done any “prep” and I’ve been in some pretty nasty homes. The only issue I ever take out with me is the cigarette smoke that seems to stick to me. I always have to drive home with my car windows down.
You have gift of expressing yourself yet soooo properly. Your body language is hilarious. Thx you for helping ME. Intelligent, compassionate and humor.!!! Merci'
We can really be nasty on the inside. My son had a cyst removed from his back and that was really hard to watch and smell. My hat goes off for all the amazing medical staff!
Was it an epidural abcess? I'm asking because I had that and needed emergency surgery. Five and a half months in hospital. Well, three different hospitals and my pain was never addressed because, as I found out two weeks before going home, the emergency doctor that I saw first at that time deemed me to be a drug seeker. That was a Friday. On Monday my friend insisted we go back and they found a mass on my back. I couldn't do anything for that weekend before my friend came over and took me back to the hospital because I couldn't really move and I looked so terrible. That was a few years ago and I'm not really much better. I hope you son faired better than I did. Wishing him and you and your loved ones well!!!😊
@@UnknownentityfelineI am so sorry to hear about that. Also, what a good friend. 👍🏾👍🏾💜
@@HappyMomma412 Aww, thanks! I just noticed that I wrote access instead of access! I just edited it now. I wouldn't have noticed if you hadn't replied which was very sweet of you, so here's a big hug thank you!!! I love your pp of your kitty!
The first friend was worried about me and convinced me to go on the Friday. Too bad I got that quack of a doctor!! By Monday another friend, another doctor, and quite a different outcome!! I am always going to get another opinion or 2 more from now on, and I advise everyone to do the same!
Notice they call it an opinion and not diagnosis. They're CTA and that makes it seem that your health is secondary. They don't have to confirm an opinion, so getting it right isn't highly important to them. Anyway, thanks for your kind thoughts and words. I sincerely hope that you and your loved ones keep well. Health and time are so precious and I wish you the best of each!!!
@@Unknownentityfelineall doctors think we are drug seekers. No matter who I go to. I now have kidney disease because I took Celebrex for my pain. It’s an NSAID. That wasn’t even a narcotic.
First off...God Bless ALL the Surgeons for what you do.
Second...God Bless ALL of you that have these things going on...my heart breaks for you...I pray, that you don't need anymore surgeries, and you all heal...I can't imagine it 🙏
❤
It sure does! The smell of pseudomonas, c-diff or gi bleed. Three smells NO ONE in healthcare can ever forget.
I had C-diff twice! Smell of death, it was awful! My whole house would smell when I used toilet until the antibiotics kicked in! Thank heaven it was spring and warm enough out to open windows and run fans!
GI smell hurts just thinking about it and that was more than 15 years ago. And at the time I was only patient registration. Oh and c-diff was amazing too the smell lit up both Pods of the ER.
@@marshataylor3703I thought it just caused diarrhea. I imagined that the diarrhea smelt the same as it ever does, in that case. lol
Heard plenty of stories from hospital staff that knew C diff was happening by smell before lab tests came back!
It colonizes in your nasal pharyngeal track....showers don't fix it haha. Maybe we have better flora for it..?! ;)
Wow. Things you never think about. Now can't unhear it.. Eeeeesh
Love that you’re just candidly waving around a syringe of what looks to be propofol.
Always propofol in his videos!
Mother's milk
Michael Jackson's milk!
I love propofol!!!
Sincere respect for health care workers I could not do what they do!
I remember a staph infection that I had a few years back and man! It stunk so bad when I had to pull out gauze every day, a foot of gauze per day for about a week or more. I also had a nasty spider bite on the middle of my back once, and my poor roommate had to help me drain the fluid. It smelled a lot like the infection too. Just awful! Our bodies can produce some things that will make flatulence smell like damn roses!
I had a nasty hobo spider bite on my lower leg. It necrotized my tissues and made a crater in my leg. It took 1 whole year to heal the wound. It now is level with the leg, no more crater, but a have a 50 cent sized scar that's dark Grey. What a painful ordeal!! Wound care, dermatologist, antibiotics... nasty, nasty wound. I hate spiders!! 😢
Great you giving us all something else to fret over like our health concerns aren’t enough! Thank you all for the nice previous comments.
Right! 😂he sounds like an Ass….pun intended
I had a root canal on a molar that had been loooong infected. Had argued over and over I needed antibiotics for it, but my face wasn't swelling up so they didn't believe me >.> THE SMELL when they started digging, coming from my own mouth T.T that whole thing took twice as long as necessary because they had to clean it out. (And that void caused problems down the line too)
My heart goes out to you❣️
Oh no I have a root canal in 2 days that’s pretty bad… no swelling so I thought I was fine but now I’m scared!
@@sabias3932if you’ve had antibiotics for any infection, you should be fine. Everyone’s experience is different.
@@sabias3932Idk how similar it is but I just got these insanely infected, impacted wisdom teeth out, and it was nothing relief! No swelling either, but getting that nasty tooth out is soooo nice, you'll be great!!!
@@sabias3932don’t be scared, usually there isn’t a bad smell. And even if there was a smell they would quickly clean you up and don’t think about it anymore 🤗
I don't fart while surgery. And If I do it smells Like roses and Prozac.
😅😅😅
Agreed. I did an emergency bowel resection at 2 am. This person had not had a bowel movement in 2 weeks. They went to sleep and immediate started to vomit fecal material. It smelled just like chicken crap. I have a pretty strong stomach but at 2 am we were all gagging.
I didn't think you can vomit under anaesthetic? How can you tell the patient is about to vomit when they are sleeping?
I don't know how you would even deal with that situation when the person is anesthetized. That sounds absolutely horrifying. Did you at least clean out their mouth before waking them up? The fact that it had even backed up into the stomach sounds really dangerous.
@@GlenAnderson71you can, which is why you're not supposed to eat.
@@littleboots9800
Not supposed to eat...fecal matter??😦
You can only imagine how BAD it is when shit is coming out the mouth. Just the very thought of it…!!! 🤮
He's so real, cute, and endearing lol😊
I love to watch you Doctor and learn something new every day thankyou ❤️
This is why constipation should be taken seriously ... to prevent needing manual removal ...
Pharmaceutical pain "medicine", and many "medicines" for that matter, need to be replaced by natural medicine (real medicine, as was intended) as they cause terrible constipation (that's how Elvis died). But, as this dr has fessed up to, our medical system is completely broken. There's absolutely no desire to heal anyone. Only a desire for profit and depopulation (in the process of making their money) exist.
How hard is it to eat fiber tho…self fixing issue
@@emiliaa8132fixed doesn't fox the issue like you think it does
@@emiliaa8132 almost like theres other reasons people get constipated and fiber isnt a 100% foolproof cure for constipation
@@emiliaa8132my grandpa got increased dosage of pain meds recently... no fiber and over the table laxatives have helped him. Its only when he takes less that its resolved. This alongside other medical difficulties proves that fiber isnt always the solution.
Also another place that can stink so bad is a woman’s bathroom!! Even thou I’m a woman I still never thought women could smell as bad as they do at times. I really try to avoid public bathrooms for this reason. If I have to go I’ll use them but I’ve seriously smelled some God awful smells in a woman’s bathroom.
Are you a JW? 😂😂😂
Because assemblies are the only time I've ever truly gagged from the smell of a women's bathroom...
My mom and I were tasked with cleaning it. (I didn't allow anyone in when we were done! They could go to the one up front)!
Many women are also puking in their due to rampant bulimia (guys have it too but higher in girls). It's also a function of cleaning or now and ..ventilation. If the pails are not emptied regularly and have the nasty old pads and tampons
I taught my ex husband to look at things differently when he would be dating again. Women are dirtier than men a lot of times. He's seen the contrast and has thanked me repeatedly. Thanks for being brave to mention.
I've been there during a lung transplantation. The smell of those black lungs was insane! My respect for surgeons became enormous.
😂 I’m a Nurse and a fart is nothing compared to what we come up against in the hospital! If you have been around a person with a Gastrointestinal Intestinal Bleed or C-DIFF you know what I mean. That funk permeates your hair, scrubs, skin, your nostrils. You only get that smell off of you is when you take a shower and blow your nose.
😲😲😲 😖😖😖 😝😝😝 I'm sorry! 😔😔😔 😳😳😳 🥺🥺🥺
Would keeping our entire intestinal tract clean help... like hydrocolonic or herbal colon cleansing?? 🤔🤔🤔 🤷🏽♀️ 🤷🏽♀️ 🤷🏽♀️
I know you can do nothing to lessen the odor when it is an infection. 😝😝😝 ☹️☹️☹️ 😬😬😬
Couldn’t pay me enough 😮much respect sir
That’s why surgeons get paid the big bucks. 😁
And get treated like the gods of the hospital. They can do almost whatever they want
How about a shout out to nursing home care givers, Bless you!
@helendropinski3754 I couldn't work in a nursing home. I was a housekeeper at the hospital, and that was OK. I loved working in E.R.
And nurses who often save their &%%$, don't.
So in veterinary medicine there are a few very distinct smells that you can tell as soon as the dog comes in…. Fly strike (maggots eating their flesh somewhere), parvovirus, and HGE (hemorrhagic gastroenteritis). Also there is a woman who can smell Parkinson’s. Pretty interesting stuff.
Yes I just heard about the woman who could smell Parkinson’s now that is amazing to me
Us humans just smell like death🤣🤣🤣 blood, intestines, pee... sweat... it's the smells 😮
So much of us is straight up bacteria!
which protects us big time@@lulumoon6942
It's not that big a deal bruh.
@@ohmielevisope4237 why do you people keep calling women bruh or bro... I'm not your bruh... And it's more funny then a deal.. yikes
Dude wasn’t around to smell the barn when we had to pull a dead calf out of its mother. It was so rotten that it’s hooves fell off and it’s teeth came out while trying to get it out. Even with gloves on, our hands smelled for days. It was horrific.
You should write books
You didn't know the cow was pregnant?
@@ukmedicfrcs of course we knew she was pregnant. The calf died sometime before birth, days to probably a week or more. We had no idea it had died until she went into labor and had trouble.
@@bexmw I have lots of material lol
@@RoyalBlue4486 If you knew she was pregnant why didn't you know about the calf? It had to be a lot longer than a week for the calf to come out the way you described.
Whew! Let’s hope I never need bowel surgery because my farts alone can not only peel pain off walls but burn every piece of furniture inside that building in under 30 seconds 🤣
Me too😂😂🤣🤣🤣🤣
OK, that means something is wrong. Either your diet is not right for your body, or your body is not functioning properly. I hope you will get diagnosed and healed.
Sounds like my son when he farts my eyes burn! 😂
@@famouskate9071 I had surgery, my body is functioning perfectly well, thanks! 😉
@@120-l3l Great! I am glad to hear that! 😊
Well, thats really reassuring to those patients 😢
It can get bad in the ambulance too!
I STRONGLY BELIEVE 💪 IT. I FEEL FOR YOU GUYS
As an OR nurse I can tell you that you can smell some horrendous things for sure; open bowels, decubitus ulcers, abscesses from anywhere, bloody, fleshly c-sections, laps (towels) and sponges, all kinds of stuff! The worst for me was the decubitus ulcers and poop! Plus the ulcers were horrendous to look at with dead flesh and holes eaten into someone’s flesh. The biggest one I ever saw was on someone’s bum and you could probably have placed a basketball inside because of how deep it was. I always wondered if that person lived or not after leaving surgery. Thank God, I believe the surgeon washed that out and I didn’t have to. It would have been difficult not to vomit.
For those certain GI cases, we used to go to your peds cart and choose the flavor we wanted to dab inside our masks.
A dab of Vics Vaporup under the nose, or a few drops of oil of wintergreen on the mask help cover up the awful smells one encounters during surgery or autopsy.
We have truck drivers walking around our place who can trump your Open Bowel stench. 😎
Hello from Erie Michigan. LOVE TO Watch and learn somethings😊
I had an infection drained yesterday. I was awake for it, and nothing, I kean nothing, compares.
I MISS WORKING IN SURGERY ITS WAS ONE JOB I REALLY ENJOYED HELP PEOPLE AND ASSISTING SURGEONS AND ANESTHESIOLOGIST.
Absolutely
There are some things to put under your nose and the sprays they use for people during recovery and such.
Thank you
Gratitude
I can’t smell I would be perfect for a job like this 😅
So funny
I watched this video the night before my surgery, I couldn’t sleep thinking I was going to poop all over the OR! 😅 I even apologize to everyone in the OR as I entered in case it happened 😮😢😢😅😂🎉
LOL, that's soooo funny!
You should not feel badly for bodily functions! This is what’s angering me about this guy.
I’m blown away 😮 Thank you God Holy Spirit for the wisdom given to these men ❤️
Wow. Way to make a stressful situation even more so 👏👏👏
I went septic going on 3 days because my bowels perforated after a bowel resection. And i was eating for half of that time, everything ended up making it so much worse. They said they used over 120L of warm saline to clean me out and even then i had to get an ileostomy and 3 drains because of the bad infection.
Glad you survived it all.
Glad you’re here.❤
@@Anon-ed1bb was it permanent? I was able to get my ileostomy reversed
I had a reverse it was wonderful for about a month. I became septic and fever of 104.5 almost died got my ileostomy back again.
Here in NYC there is some homeless guy who walks around the streets half naked and with whatever clothing he is wearing smeared with feces and he has his red ostomy apparatus showing on his abdomen but it is not attached to any colostomy bag so the guy has all his excrements smeared all over him and it seems he is proud to expose himself this way.
And yet another reason why I would never work in the medical field. The blood, smelly stuff, Bylou, patients, etc. Big up to anyone else willing to do it.
Wow never knew that .
GOD Bless all the doctors and med staff !!!🙏🙏🙏
Man, that's why I went into psych. Can't deal with strong fecal smells, etc. (and getting to wear regular clothes is a bonus).
How is psych better? Have u not seen what psych ward patients can do?!
For years I saw what they are capable of,@@Diarrheagod. Never had to deal with bodily waste or fluids. I did get to know & care about them and saw them get better. I'll take it any day over another hospital/institution/facility with beds for patients. I was around those enough to know I had a strong preference.
@@Diarrheagodexactly what I was thinking! lol
True, but psych patients are mostly ambulatory and you aren't cleaning GI bleed c diff. They are also not on a vent in a psych unit, so suctioning sputum, etc...@@Diarrheagod
I had to do a bowel prep for my hysterectomy and endometriosis excision last week. I was very cleaned out before surgery 💩 🎉
I've had nearly twenty surgeries in my lifetime, But that bowel resection... that was the worst thing I ever had to heal from. I pray nobody ever has to experience that!!! The tube alone that goes in your nose down into your stomach to suction out the gastric juices,
man, that was the worst thing I've ever experienced!!!!!
This is why they need to make pills that make your farts smell like flowers 😂
I can relate,in 2021 I was shot three times and Rob, I had gotten a colostomy bag, and it was placed in a though spot due to were I was shot.and it came off while I was asleep.Omg,the sell was something that Ive never smell, I was so imbarrus , depression PTSD and anxiety, kick in.😮😂
Can testify to this fact. Passed out from it during my first surg rotation.
I insisted my surgeon save my gallstones 🪨 for me. Day after surgery i got curious and opened specimen container 😮 the stink gave me whole new appreciation for surgeon 😷 so much for my 🤔 thinking about making a necklace out of the gallstones 😂❤
Just had bowel resection surgery last Monday…my apologies to everyone involved in my care!
I’m with you! Hope you are having a speedy recovery! Just had my second surgery for reconnection almost a month ago
I had this surgery 3 years ago and now I’m feeling bad about the poor medical staff 😂
One of the worst smells as an NP is having to drain a Pilonidal cyst (base of the spine cyst). Dear God, I wear a mask but the smell of infection just permeates through the room and into the nostrils. Myself and my nurse silently gag every time.
What does it smell like?
As an ER/OR/ICU/CCU/Trauma Nurse, I can attest to this statement.
I used to spray my expensive cologne on the inside of my OR Mask, for times like this.😅
I actually had 7" of my large intestine removed, as it was necrotic, massively infected, and getting ready to rupture, as it had a complete twist on itself.
I had a doctor mess up my Hysterectomy 6 months prior, where she had impaled my small bowel with a Trocar, closed me up without checking.
The next day I was rushed back into surgery for a small bowel excision with reanastamosis. The surgeon who saved my life left my original doctor to close.
Huge mistake, as she just threw my bowels back into my abdominal cavity, thereby, twisting my large bowel. I kept having to take Antibiotics for 6 months due to the huge hot spot under my left breast. Oh....I was in ICU, where I worked, for 7 days the first time. I had Peritonitis & Septicemia
Six months later....yep....emergency surgery...7" of LG bowel removed, in ICU for 6 days. My surgeon filed complaint against the first surgeon for almost killing me....TWICE in 6 months.
The pathology OR report described my surgery and the findings, Including the smell.....perfectly. Embarrassing, but I am so grateful to that surgeon!
I fired my Doctor, never filed a suit. But received a nice settlement from her, as my surgeon is the one who filed on my behalf. The Board took her Surgical credentials away....revoked and limited her hospital licensure. Last time I heard, my ex doctor was retaking her Surgical rotation in an internship.
Hope she does better 😊
....so glad you made it ❤
From one nurse to another, I will pray for you and any c-ptsd most of us have, including our own medical trauma which lights the match. I'm out of the system as a nurse and patient now. I am glad you are okay, and you had support.
You are lucky that you survived. Was having high fevers on the way home from Mexico. I had an appointment with my neurologist and he took one look at me and asked if I wanted an ambulance or could I get to the ER on my own. I said I have a car so I will drive there. I got lost in my own neighborhood. I had called my husband and he called our next door neighbors and asked them to take me to the ER. In the end I got admitted to the ICU because I take immune lowering medication. I don’t remember being in ICU for about 8-9 days, then step down unit for 2 weeks, had a PICC line placed and was on IV antibiotics for a month at home, and was put on oral antibiotics for 2 months. The ER doctor came to see me (I’m a PA that worked in ER) and he said they were seriously worried about my survival when I showed up with a fever of 105. I was delirious. It was salmonella septicemia big time. Even the after care was to see a cardiologist because the valves in my heart looked infected to the radiologist. It is very different experience being a patient rather than a provider.
Omgggg what an experience you have. Glad you pulled through. Was operated in February 2024 I’m still recuperating and it wasn’t easy. CA had a total
Hysterectomy.
I thoroughly enjoy having all kinds of medical questions answered. Thank you!
Surgeons do not care about what kind of a patient they are dealing with. They are there to Help.
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As someone whos had many GI bleeds requiring emergency surgeries, i can tell you that bloody poop is some of the worst smelling things. You never forget it once you've smelled it!🤢
I worked for a podiatrist that rented "after hours" space in an OB office. Prior to us coming in for "foot" patients one day, a woman had a prolapsed uterus... I'm here to tell you, the smell was horrifying! We sprayed, cleaned, etc...everyone was wretching !!
Brilliant. We can now all have so much faith being treated for serious illnesses
This guy appears and we get some wild stuff we never knew making us more scared and disgusted about surgery. We know to much already this is to much
I read a story about a surgeon who was performing surgery on a woman who had an EXTREMELY LARGE ABCESS to her abdominal area.
He said that upon lancing the abcess, EXTREMELY LARGE AMOUNTS OF HORRIBLY SMELLING PUS immediately shot out, with so much force, that it sprayed onto the wall...it made a coating on the floor and they were walking in it.
It smelled so bad, that a nurse had to go throw up into a sink. He said that they keep a small container of this smell neutralizer in a cupboard,(you take some and stick it in your nostrils) and when one of the techs went to get it, IT WAS EMPTY! No one bothered to replace it or tell anyone that it was empty!
He said it took everything in him to not vomit or walk away.
(The guy telling the story was more descriptive and detailed regarding the story)
I honestly felt bad for them! Lol
I have smelled pressure wounds that are vomit inducing. Smells way worse than diarrhea or other forms of shit!!!
I believe you are referring to the medical story known as "The swamps of Dagobah" I have read the full story regarding the incident and it was caused by that woman putting an illicit drug injection to her taint.
@UBNsoldier I believe that was the case, regarding drug use, but it was on reddit. I don't remember the title, but I DEFINITELY remember the description!
as a biomedical scientist, I can safely say we get some stinky samples from theatres😂😂
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Then to the surgeons that did my bowel obstructions and resections😅my bad. I guess i am truly a little stinker😂
You and me both! 😂
We all are 🤣
Lol
😂😅😅😮😅😂
new fear unlocked: surgical embarrassment
Wow, way to make folks feel at ease. Did you forget about the spray we have that literally makes the💨 go away & overrides it.
Sheesh
Having had 4+ sm bowel resections (multiple obstructions from adhesions) in the past 8 yrs, 10/23, I was scheduled for another & put myself thru a bowel prep prior to it, hoping it would make things easier for the surgical team. As a retired nurse I know there are smells you just never forget.
Oh honey, they have my gas locked up in USAMRIID as a bioweapon. ❤
Wwhen you gas even *the dog* out, you've got something. /l
Lol
Good to know ...
Yessss. I'm a RNFA , and had a total colectomy,,, so I have been on both sides of the table. Yess stinky is right. I personally like like to put Vicks vapo rub in my nose in a shiny surgery. I hate the peppermint oil trick.
I worked in a hospital, and I'll never forget the time the OR nurses sent 10 lbs of necrotic, impacted bowel from the OR to the lab through the tube delivery system (think bank drive-thru vacuum tube) that was meant for small biopsies. We heard it pinging all the way thru the hospital. The bowel got there before the tube did, but when my coworker opened the door to retrieve the tube, it blew that literal gut rot all over her, the counter, the wall behind her. We all puked. They had to call out a maintenance team to clean and sterilize the whole vacuum system. It was absolutely the worst shid I've ever seen. No pun intended.
😮ewww
This video made me feel all the emotions.
Fun story 2 years ago i got a sleeve operation where they open your stomach and cut in half so you loose wait slowly right after i woke up i felt a lot of pain i told my doctor he didn’t believe me because i was on lots of pain meds 2 days later couldn’t move mi right side my mom took me to another hospital right away after some test turns out i had a serious lung infection on my right side and could loose it because of bacteria in the operating room 😊
I don't know, man. My farts have woken me up out of a dead sleep while gagging & everything. Eyes all bloodshot and teary. It's been so bad that I've cried!
Have you guys cried because these smells were so bad?
I quit eating for a bit just to give myself a break. 😶
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That seems super abnormal, maybe try eating some natural yogurt or probiotics.
@Sara-wv3ms I've tried it all. Lactose intolerance and I love dairy. There's not much that can be done. Lactaid doesn't help. It is what it is. 🤷♀️
@@whomeye2168 oh my goodness 😞 I am sorry.
@@Sara-wv3ms Ohh, it's alright! It's not deadly... 🤭
Feels like it sometimes waking up under the covers! 😅
Some of us just love the things we probably shouldn't have. No harm, no foul. Have a nice day! 😉
Girl wtf you've got atomic farts
Once had a patient come through with some form of bowel cancer and a full stomach, they ended up cutting them open because waste was leaking into their abdominal cavity, stunk up the ENTIRE floor trying to rinse it out, it was slightly disturbing to see someone’s hand moving around intestines like they were.
Your farts smell fine, your guts smell HORRIBLE.
Bad smelling particles can do harm when breathed in; its not just an olfactory issue!
Thats so sweet to say honey. I take courage, as when i had wisdom teeth out, the surgeon broke wind like thunder and long. I was embarrassed
My uncle passed away in a hospital and nobody was saying anything about the smell. So I had to ask them to please clean him up and then we can all come back in. When you die, your bowels release and he was an opiate addict too so you can only imagine how blocked he must've been.
An Autopsy Room must stink like mad then
Well smells calm down when refridgerated! But yes when you open a pus cavity or similar it would stink. But cold better than heated. And the room can be kept way colder while working without worrying about the patient!
I have to agree. The worst is a three week old corpse found in water. 🤮🤢 in school our classroom was next to the autopsy suite and above the exhaust for the state coroner’s autopsy suite. Windows closed you could still smell that sweet sickly odor…. Or the smell of acidosis in a patient with kidney failure. TB…. TB lungs have a distinctive smell like rancid moldy food and old hamburger. Bowel contents is nothing in comparison!
@@triciaschumaker6407 🤢🤮 lol
Maybe that’s why the students or police (I can’t remember which) faint around the table at the beginning of the 70s show Quincy, M.E.!
I am going in for an upper GI procedure , thank you for this info , will be apologizing to the medical staff ahead of it just in case I have anything of a not so pleasant smell.
Have worked on the ventilation system for surgery rooms, they vent the air only they are designed to eliminate odor
Thats why I admire healthcare workers!
Ive smelt cellulitis! Its soooo bad! Cant imagine the bowel surgery! PeeUUUU
Medicine has some tricks for this, Vicks vapor rub under the nostrils or cotton rolls in each nostril under ur mask. I also love essential oils
Why I never had you as my anesthesiologist ☺ super cool!