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Post by clyde on Jan 24, 2015 9:55:20 GMT -5
I just watched the episode where Curt performs a tracheotomy on Martha Rose, and Mary Ellen faints dead away. Is anyone here a fainter - especially at the sight of blood? I might shake and quiver, but to date have not passed out.
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Post by patriciaanne on Jan 24, 2015 10:29:34 GMT -5
I have never fainted. The closest I came was when I was a teenager and I was working on a Sunday. We had a very brief break because we only worked 12 to 5. I didn't have lunch on my little 15 min. break. Shortly after I was ringing up someone at the counter and the whole department went sideways (although I was still standing). I had someone grab the register, I went and sat down and someone got me a hot dog.
I'm not squeamish, although I've never witnessed a trach, esp. not someone I knew. I can give shots to cats, dogs, and horses. Although I draw the line at IV shots--IM and subcutaneous only.
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Post by Brenda on Jan 24, 2015 10:40:18 GMT -5
I'm squeamish about things like that. I could never be a nurse. As a mother and a teacher, I saw enough gory things. My son broke both of his arms one time. One of the arms was really bad. You could see the bone sticking up from it. I thought I was going to be sick just looking at it.
I did actually pass out once when I was a teenager and my dad was in the hospital. I was in the room when they were sticking the IV in him. They were having trouble with it, and I passed out. I could barely hear my dad saying, "Help that child!" as I passed out. Next thing I knew, the nurses who were supposed to be taking care of my dad were putting smelling salts under my nose to bring me back. That's the only time I ever passed out because of watching some medical procedure. The only other time I can remember passing out was when I was in labor with my first child. It wasn't because I was squeamish about something, though. My blood pressure dropped suddenly, and I passed out. Again, they used the smelling salts. That time I kind of wished they had just left me passed out. It was a few seconds without the pain.
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Post by awesomemixtape10 on Jan 24, 2015 11:28:30 GMT -5
I had a friend who passed out when his wife's Cat gave birth.
We have never let him forget it.
He is a big gun loving redneck but he cant stand stuff like that
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Post by ForeverWaltons on Jan 24, 2015 13:10:39 GMT -5
Thanks to my brother I'm not squeamish about blood and gore. Growing up he was always getting hurt. He got his shoelace caught in his bicycle chain - blood, stitches, concussion. Tried jumping from a car bumper to a truck bumper - only his chin and lower lip made it - blood and stitches. He was helping our daddy with a tree, daddy's chainsaw slipped and got my brother's leg - lots of blood, lots of stitches. He was chasing me through the house, fell against a piece of furniture - blood and stitches. He had a dirt bike accident - lots of blood and road rash and I could go on. I was there for it all.
Because of my brother, whenever one of our foreverettes have gotten hurt I remain calm. Our oldest daughter had a very serious bicycle accident when she was twelve. One of my brother-in-laws was here when it happened. He couldn't believe how calm I remained. He wasn't handling it very well. I told him if he had grown up with my brother, he would understand. We had to take her to the emergency room for stitches. Later on she had a sports accident that again required the emergency room and stitches plus a visit to an oral and Maxillofacial dentist.
I had a weak stomach when it came to vomit until our second oldest daughter came along. She threw up at least two times a week for over two years at the supper table during the meal (yes we had her checked out by a doctor). In no time I could just keep on eating my meal. Definitely got a strong stomach because of that. Now I can be in a room with everyone throwing up and it doesn't have any effect on me at all.
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Post by clyde on Jan 24, 2015 13:22:32 GMT -5
Hey Forever - is your poor brother still alive? Still accident prone?
I was feeling queasy just reading about the vomit queen!
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Post by ForeverWaltons on Jan 24, 2015 14:01:08 GMT -5
Hey Forever - is your poor brother still alive? Still accident prone? I was feeling queasy just reading about the vomit queen!
Yes, he is still alive thankfully! He had several more accidents while growing up.
Years back Mr. Forever's best friend had a four wheeler accident and died from it (it flipped on top of him and busted his liver and he bled out). Just a few days later my brother flipped his four wheeler on top of himself and broke his back - he was lucky! He's a general contractor/carpenter and he takes pride in his work and he is great at it...but he's had a few accidents from that occupation including falling off a roof and out of a barn.
I have never seen him as accident prone. I have just always thought that he lives life with Gusto. LOL! He definitely lives a charmed life.
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Post by Deleted on Jan 24, 2015 15:24:35 GMT -5
I use to work for a veterinarian that spend some time in WWII. Man surgery makes me hungry. I could eat a sandwich and spay a cat no problem.
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Post by Deleted on Jan 24, 2015 15:52:40 GMT -5
I used to watch operations on TV (Heart, kidney, etc..) on the learning channel or whatever channel it was, and I used to eat my lunch while watching it. Never bothered me. I wonder if I'd feel the same if I watched it in person?
I have seen a couple of people die, right in front of me (one in a hospital and one when their car crashed and man flew out of a car and smashed against a fence. ) I felt so sad for them and wish I could revive them, but never felt squeamish and never fainted in my life, so far.
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Post by carol on Jan 24, 2015 16:06:53 GMT -5
I'm not squeamish at all. I've watched surgeries on TV and would love to watch one in person as long as I am not the patient! LOL I've drawn blood and given injections and I've seen bed sores where the patient's hip bones were visible.I had to deal wi th the drainage from my husband's hip when he had it replaced back in 2008. I also watched when they stitched up my husband's leg and eye brow after a fall a few years ago.That was right before he got sober.
My mom told me her great aunt used faint at the sight of blood even just a tiny cut. Mom said she always wondered what Aunt Julia did when she was a younger woman at that time of the month.LOL If she couldn't handle a tiny bit of blood from a small cut how did she handle that?
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Post by Kathy Lee on Jan 24, 2015 16:08:09 GMT -5
Fainted one time when I was sixteen. My older brother had a pineal cyst on his butt crack removed. He could only come home if someone knew how to clean it. I was all brave and said NOTHING bothered ME! Well, I was watching them clean the wound, which was all red and yucky, and....bam! Down I went! All I remember was a humming sound and my vision going black!
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Post by daniela on Jan 24, 2015 17:21:56 GMT -5
I am so squeamish! It's riduculous actually, and very embarrassing. One time I was watching ER, and the doctors were all on the roof of the hospital. A helicopter was landing to take a patient away, and Dr. Romano pointed up at something, and off came his arm from the propeller...well....I was not expecting that. I turned completely white, and had to go outside and almost threw up. I was taking a shower once, and was washing my leg. I looked down, and saw this huge bruise on my leg. Wow! Oh boy...not good. I remember saying out loud to myself, " huh, that's a big bruise". Then I turned all white. I had to get out of the shower and sit on the floor. I was going to throw up and pass out. I sat there a long time before I got my wits about me. I went upstairs, and my mom looked at me, and she said, " Daniela, you are so pale!" I said, " I'll tell you later mom " Not very long ago, I was at the gym. I was putting the Dumbbells back on the rack, and was too busy talking to my trainer, and my hand slipped, and I caught my finger between the rack and dumbbell. I fully expected to see a red knuckle. I looked, and I peeled a chunk of skin off. I looked at my trainer, and I said, " ohhhh....look". He started laughing, and said, " next time pay attention Daniela". I laughed a little, then I started feeling sick. This other guy there felt sorry for me, because he saw the pasty white colour appear on my face. I went to the bathroom, and sat on the floor, because I thought I was going to throw up and pass out. They still laugh at me about that. There are more stories. I don't like getting hurt, which is too bad since I'm a clutz. Everyone who knows me, knows if they lose a finger or something, don't come looking to me for help I get a cold feeling run through my whole body when someone, especially myself gets hurt. I also am not good with vomit. One day I'm walking with my bff Lisa, and we walked by a plastic bag. She said, " haha..look..that bag is full of puke" Oh boy, she ruined my whole walk. I said, " seriously....you had to show me?" She laughed, but my stomach was upset for hours. hmmmm.....maybe there is a good reason I am still single? I think I'm a full time job!
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Post by clyde on Jan 24, 2015 17:43:12 GMT -5
Daniela you are too funny! If you ever have kids, you will be like my Mother. Whenever I got hurt as a kid, I would run to her with my bloody lip, scraped knee, etc., and she would turn and run away in the opposite direction as fast as she could! I learned early to bandage up my own wounds!
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Post by Deleted on Jan 24, 2015 21:40:36 GMT -5
Squeamish? Not really - Although I don't watch as the tech takes blood from my arm, I don't mind the site of blood. In fact I usually go into a very calm mode when I see injuries or blood. I do what has to be done - THEN I go into another room and wince and shake my hands and get all grossed out about what I've just witnessed.
I passed out once. I was a teenager and an old TV had sparked a fire in my house. I thought it was still small enough to try and stop it with the help of some neighbors. Apparently, a window broke as I was running past it and I inhaled the smoke and the next thing I knew, I was on my neighbor's couch with an oxygen mask on.
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Post by weezer29 on Jan 25, 2015 4:23:34 GMT -5
I just watched the episode where Curt performs a tracheotomy on Martha Rose, and Mary Ellen faints dead away. Is anyone here a fainter - especially at the sight of blood? I might shake and quiver, but to date have not passed out. Not squeamish much. I am a nurse, so I see tons of stuff. Snot and mucus does bother me at times, but I get over it. I have to laugh at my daughter though, she is an advanced practice nurse. She used to be a NICU nurse, she would start IV's on premies, using the feet or heads, whatever she could access. But if you go to draw blood from her or start on IV on her, she will pass out. LOL
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