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What is your Most embarrassing medical moment?

Embarrassing? Fun maybe but embarrassing?

Well I had to do the "Get Hip Back In" dance in my neurodude's office...

I broke out in a rash after my gastro made me cry over my stuffed animal

My geneticist was super happy to find that I am a genetic mosaic...like bouncy happy

I needed my mom to help me pee in the ER with an IV line...that was pretty sad

I really don't get embarrassed...I usually burst out laughing because I know the (insert med professional) has seen worse!!!!!

Well this wasnt bad but gave me and my dr a giggle...

Went in for a horrid case of bronchitis and needed to have x-rays done for chest had them done dr comes in and says'well i ha no problem spotting the reason for all the pain(I thought..Oh Sh*t..pneumonia)and he goes "here take a look....you have metal wires growing out of your breasts"...I had forgotten to take off my bra.

And had to go up to the hosp. for hip and lower back x.rays(me and the two women techs in the room.....
Her:lets lay a cover down..you lay here and you can just pull your pants down...a little below your panty line if you dont want to undress..ya da yada..
Me:Oh well I need a cover and have to undress cause I didn't wear any underwear today! ...

She turned a purty shade of red.....me i just went with the flow ...

T

Ok, warning - this is a TMI moment.

I've had bouts with boils - in the last year - hopefully, the recent treatment for staph infection will prevent future breakouts.

But....
I had to switch to a new doc because mine went on a different program.
The first appt I had in the new docs office - it was with the nurse practiioner - who steve had seen and was really great.

She walks in and says "What can I do for you today?".
Me: I have a boil on my butt.

I proceed to drop my pants and show the woman I've never met before my butt with a huge ugly boil on it.
It was on it's way to healing, so she gave me some meds etc. She also commended me for my creative way of bandaging it without having to use first aid tape - I took a panty liner and put meds on it and stuck it to my underwear. She thought it was brilliant!

Later that year - same thing - Hi Nancy - I have another boil - and yes, it's on my butt.
I drop trou, lay on the exam table in a position that is truly not lady like while the poor woman numbs my butt and lances my boil.

I apologize for always having to come and see her with a nasty looking butt. She laughs. Thank god this woman has a sense of humor.

linda

Linda..dont feel bad....I show my A@S all the time...but dont have my pants down!

T

I get really smart alecky when I get hurt. Once, when I was still a teenager, I cut my thumb pretty badly. I was in the ER and had two doctors stitching me up. I noticed that one of them had a woman's name and phone number written on his scrubs. I couldn't help it. I took one look at him and said "So, do all the girls give you their phone numbers before they leave here?!?" My mother wanted to crawl under the table and die. But, the doc was really cool about it. He explained that the girl's name was hard to remember, and indeed her last name had no vowels in it; so, he had her write it down for him. But on his scrubs? I think he deserved my outburst. It was a bit chancey of me to challenge him, being he was sewing me up, though!

I should probably have my mouth taped before entering the ER.

Linda your butt reminded me...

The nurse at school called my GI for constipation...and the word enema came up...and the nurse proceded to tell my GI that i didn't like it when she had put her thumb up there during my exam.

There was me...shushing the nurse so she'd stop telling my gastro about how i don't like stuff up there.

That was horrible

What a great idea Linda!!

Can't think of anything at the moment. The most embarrassing thing I can think of was the time I'd forgotten to take my watch off prior to an MRI and I think they had to redo the first few pictures. Oops.

Not completely medical, but having a soft voice is part of my "package".

Mom drove me to the mall so I could go shopping for a new bra (or two) at La Senza. Being just after Christmas, the place was PACKED, and it was so noisy you couldn't hear yourself think.

Mom: OK< now you're gonna have to talk to me in a *raises her voice* really loud voice if you want something.

(yeah, I am sure gonna yell out that I want a certain type of bra... )

Me: *speechless, points toward appropriate rack and doesn't talk for the next ten minutes*

Well, it was another lifetime ago, it seems, but there is one night that still stands out in my memory.
I was 16 or 17 at the time. I was performing in the local "cast" of The Rocky Horror Picture Show. During the show, I slipped and wrenched my knee. (Tap shoes and uncooked rice and spilled soda make for a dangerous combo, by the way!) I had just had surgery on the knee 2 weeks prior to this, and so it immediately started swelling to inhuman proportions. My boyfriend loads me into his car, and off we go to the ER. Bear in mind, it's about 1a.m., and I am in full costume!

The radiology techs were befuddled over whether they could shoot X-rays through fishnets and sequins! Finally, my mom got there and helped me out of my costume and into comfy clothes. Unfortunately, I couldn't stand at the sink long enough to wash my face and my hair was spray-dyed fuscia! Boy, was I a sight to see!

There was the time I tore my knee up skiing. Dad took me to the urgent care, and they gave me a vicodin. I'd only rarely taken them before, so was still very sensitive to the side effects. I started spouting off in French and translating myself back into English (?!) and thought it was terribly funny.

Heh. And the first time I saw my neuro, well, it's wintertime and I'm very sensitive to the cold, so I'm layered all to heck. I told him I had silk long johns on, could I leave them on? He says sure, goes out, I get into the gown like I'm supposed to, he comes back in and looks at me like I'm nuts and says that no, those can't stay on.

*snort* After I had my LP done, I stayed laying down for half an hour 'cause that's what the doctor who did it said to do. Then I got down off the table, took off a bunch of clothing so I could re-layer myself. Naturally, when I was down to just my underwear, /that/ is when the nurse came in to check on me *facepalm* With my stage background and time doing re-enacting, I'm almost impossible to embarass, but oh was that nurse ever startled and embarassed!

Ok, besides the embarrassing incident that happend today posted elsewhere ......

I cracked my skull on the dyer door (it was a stackable)...passed out and my friend took me to the ER. While there, my brain appearantly was bruised and swelling. The ER doc came in and to me, he looked exactly like Elmer Fudd!

I said, "Hewwoo" in my best Elmer Fudd voice. Then I said, "Are you the Gwate White Hunto?"
I was laughing hysterically...I don't know why...

All he did was say to the nurse, " We need a CT ...Stat!"

And that was that.....

When I went in for suspected preterm labor at 18 weeks- and teh nurses (who had not obviously done the necessary checking) started preparing for a full-term delivery. "So we're having a baby today! Congratulations! Is it a boy or a girl?"

My most embarrassing Dr. moment would prolly have to be when I was getting checked in for knee surgery and my mom was helping me into my hospital gown and as I undressed I just realised 'oh s**t I am wearing a thong and now the doctor is gonna be able to see my a**!' I was mortified and of course my mom thought it was hysterical.

I was in the hospital and got another dose of morphine when a few minutes later one of my friends called. He asked how I was doing and if there was anything he could do for me. I started rattling off my honey-do list at home. Mow the grass, trim the bushes, paint the house, etc. I saw him a week later an apologized.