That vomit cake one is the first thing that's made me physically gag in over a year. Prior to that it was the stench of a patient with gastrointestinal bleeding and anal seepage. What the **** is wrong with people.
We picked up an upper GI/Heart attack victim. In her 80's, last seen at 5 PM previous night, we arrived on-scene 11 AM next day.
Walked into the house and it smelled like one of those houses where animals **** everywhere and it doesn't get picked up.. Turns out it was the patient. She was two rooms over laying in a puddle of her own..Ah.. Evacuations..? That, and she had vomited up about 3/4 liter (probably more) of the "coffee grounds" that are associated with an upper GI bleed. Estimated down for at least 8 hours (likely more) by the amount of fluids soaked into her pajamas. All this, and she was still breathing.
Transported her on a beautiful sunny day, appx. 84 degrees (Fahrenheit) and a 20 minute run to the hospital. The smell damn near evacuated the ER. Couldn't get that smell out, and even now I'll get a whiff of something that brings me back.. Out of all of the blood I've seen, she was the worst medical that I've been to.
EMS. My case was a 40- year old male who, in a misguided effort to clear his own constipation, drank a homemade cocktail of pepto-bismol and sand.
When we got to his home, we could smell his waste from the door, and he was upstairs in his bathroom. I won't ever forget that smell as long as I live, and the guy's bathroom floor was covered in granulated *********** . We estimate he lost about half a unit of blood through his ass and he needed help badly.
I almost vomited all over him after a few minutes in the back of the truck.
Yeah. That was in my "trial" period, during one of my ride-alongs. Horrible smell, and all of us almost vomited multiple times. We also hit the top speed in the ambulance, so there's that.
That ******* guy you know which ******* guy . That was some classic cringe right there, and he almost threw me off by not being white or having a neckbeard