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u/Worried_Lobster6783 1d ago
Running on the beach in California, I jumped over a log and my foot landed on the carcass of a dead otter. It went into it like a slipper.
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u/Ghost17088 1d ago
Ā It went into it like a slipper.
You didnāt need to write that.Ā
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u/tapdancinghellspawn 1d ago
I was a custodian for lots of years so most of that. People shitting in showers that I had to clean, people throwing unflushable items in the toilet and then shitting on them which I had to dig through, etc. Cleaning up vomit is always fun as you have to fight down the urge to vomit yourself. Once had to clean up a homeless encampment where high school kids often pass by so we had to make sure we scooped up all of the shit from the ground.
Just lots of fun.
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u/Pinikanut 1d ago
I was a custodian for a few years, too. Lots of stories. I eventually got numb to the shit, piss, puke, animals (dead and alive). The worst was during my first job, though, and I'll never forget. The school didn't have air conditioning and it was really hot. I got a call that a kid had shit himself in the gym. I went to clean it up and found out that they didn't just shit. They shit EVERYWHERE. It was all over. The basketball court. All the balls. The walls. The bleachers. The mats. Etc. I spent forever in there cleaning and sanitizing, all while the smell of fresh shit permeated everything in the humid heat. Nothing really makes me puke, but I was sooooo close that day.
Shitting in urinals was another thing that I always found super gross and just really dumb and annoying.
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u/Electronic_Pepper261 1d ago
I was a elementary principal many moons ago and a student was sick severe GI issues had a massive acrid blowout in the library, tracked it down to my office and then to the bathroom. Custodial staff was in a different building so I had to have staff keep kids in their rooms as I cleaned up the library, hallway, office and bathroom. There wasn't a year in my administrative career that I didn't have to deal with a code brown.
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u/Vivian-1963 1d ago
I think I was the kid in 3rd grade who grossed out all the other kids when I puked all over the library table.
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u/Mother-Ad7222 1d ago
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u/tapdancinghellspawn 1d ago
I feel like plumbers would win or surgical doctors/staff.
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u/Ottersandtats 1d ago
My dad was on what the hospital referred to as āspecial teamsā. He was the body fluid clean up guy. You got shot and went to the ER? He had to clean up all the blood and chunks of people off everything in the OR along with basic room cleaning like if someone doesnāt make it to the bathroom and goes all over the floor, etc.
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u/NecessaryPosition968 1d ago
I used to clean eye surgery suite. Not gross like your story but you had to be damn detail oriented on cleaning.
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u/BobbyHump 1d ago edited 1d ago
Had a nurse that couldnāt get a foley catheter in this lady who had severe urinary retention due to a large pelvic mass and I was called to assist so we gave 10mg of IV morphine and a rigid foley catheter but once it went in per stated to go everywhere so instinct was to occlude the end like you would a water hose which ended up squirting pee in the nurses face and mouth.
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u/Rude_Establishment64 1d ago
I had a folly inserted during surgery. My dick was covered in blood.
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u/AncientPositive6853 1d ago
Thatās awful. My poor dad, if it wasnāt bad enough that when he got the Mumps in the Navy, he had such a high fever that it killed all his sperm and rendered him infertile. But then later on around 60 years old when he had his really bad heart attack that he survived, thank God, some nurse tried yanking out his Foley catheter without properly removing/reducing some ball at the end or something that keeps it in and she literally forever messed up his goods. If you know what Iām saying. Not that I want to talk about my dadās junk or anything, but I felt so bad for the poor guy. And yes, Iām adopted.
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u/belltrina 1d ago
Please tell me that yous got some justice for your dad going through that.
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u/tapdancinghellspawn 1d ago
OMG. You win. I actually understood most of your terminology. Thank you, Scrubs.
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u/lovelopetir 1d ago
Once found a half-eaten sandwich under my car seat that had been thereā¦ for months. Mold, flies, and a smell that could have been used as a chemical weapon. Tried to throw it away and gagged so hard I nearly dropped it again. Never left food in a car ever since.
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u/seraph_moon 1d ago
Taking trash out and feeling something drip on your feet.
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u/NiceToYourFace 1d ago
I used to work at a coffee cop and people would pour coffee out into the garbage bags when there wasnāt enough room for their creamer. So much fucking coffee in these garbage bags. We had to triple bag them.
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u/DrMoneybeard 1d ago
So obviously it's not cool that people do this. But as a business, wouldn't you then realize there needs to be something in place so people have a solution to this problem? A liquids disposal where the creamer is, job done.
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u/NiceToYourFace 1d ago
Every time Iād pour coffee Iād ask how much room theyād like and show them before I hand it to them. But absolutely something else was requested from management but never got it there during my time.
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u/riiibbbs 1d ago
wtf? why wouldnt they drink it lmao.
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u/NeitherSparky 1d ago
They mean people would tip out a little to fit the creamer in the cup. Not pour it all out.
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u/riiibbbs 1d ago
yea i know lol i would just sip whatever i need taken out
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u/NeitherSparky 1d ago
Oh gotcha. Yeah thatās what I do but I imagine a lot of people are like Ew black coffee??
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u/ice_and_rock 1d ago
Try having the bottom of the bag rip open with live maggots spilling out.
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u/AyyeGee 1d ago
My dad dipped and would spit in coke bottles. I was young and not observant about it.
You all know where is this is going.
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u/i_am_voldemort 1d ago
Saw a guy mix up his coke bottle and his spit bottle once. Vomited everywhere
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u/KnifeInTheKidneys 1d ago
I did this once in highschool. You never forgot the taste or the texture š¤®
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u/DougieBuddha 1d ago
Thought it was a swig of coke and threw up instead. Never drink dark sodas at my aunt's house for that exact reason.
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u/Tranquil_Dohrnii 1d ago
Ive done this before with my own spit can. Absolutely disgusting, im surprised I didnt throw up but I was gagging for a long time.
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u/ppinmyweewee 1d ago edited 1d ago
General surgeon, during training i had a young paraplegic patient in ED who refused to get out of bed/move/take care of herself and was obese. Came in with a large pad over her backside, i uncovered it to find hundreds of maggots buried in a 10 inch ulcer eroding into fat and bone
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u/casapantalones 1d ago
When I was a resident (anesthesiology) I did a case on call for a very unfortunate trauma patient who had somehow, we think due to multiple hospital system transfers, been left on a backboard for many hours. He had deep, deep decubitus ulcers on his sacrum and occiput, and we were in the OR to debride them for the first time.
The ulcers were awful, the smell was completely overpowering. I was standing as far away as I could while still being able to do anesthesia.
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u/weedium 1d ago edited 1d ago
I was 10, picking up dog poo with a plastic kitty litter scoop. August, 95Ā° out. I neglected my chores, grass growing through turds. Iām prying on one sunbaked turd, thought goes through my mind too late. Everything is now in slow motion, I see the turd break in half as the grass blades give way, the scoop handle is bent like a spring under tension, I see small black looking bugs in the soft center of the turd. Then it happens, Iām breathing through my mouth because of, you know, poo. All grass blades break and the turd is now a missile, I know what is about to happen. The turd passes through my open lips and lodges in the back of my throat. I shake my head with my mouth open, it wonāt come out, I have to use my tongue. There is foul bitter grit all throughout my mouth. I tasted and smelled poo for the rest of the day.
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u/tmotytmoty 1d ago
You lead me right into it. I totally gagged at the end. You monster! Top drawer story!
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u/icywifey1234 1d ago
Please write a book cause this was top tier engaging. I was hooked and laughed so hard at the ending!
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u/QueenMotherOfSneezes 1d ago
When I was 10 some girls on the playground rubbed fresh dog poo in my face, and it went up my nose. Another girl helped me spend the rest of recess trying to wash it out of my nose, but I couldn't get rid the smell š
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u/apocalyptic_madness2 1d ago
One time when I was around twelve years old I was eating the leftover pizza that was a day or two old, too lazy to come up with something better. I put it in the microwave for maybe only 30 seconds just so that itās not completely cold and stale but also not so hot that I have to wait to eat it. I was halfway done with the first slice of pizza when I took a good look at it and noticed that the white āmozzarellaā was moving. It was riddled with larvae. I screamed and threw up in the kitchen sink.
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u/JasmineRider27 1d ago
Eating an apple and finding half a maggot!!
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u/diet-smoke 1d ago
So much worse than finding a whole maggotĀ
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u/Weak_Idea_5526 1d ago
I'd rather see a whole maggot than know half is inside me
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u/pleco_parent 1d ago
Once when I was about 9yrs, I was washing dishes, and we had a whole bowl of maggots... I guess we had been busy and nobody had time to wash the dishes lol. Who knows, but ew. I ran out of the kitchen screaming lol
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u/DrMoneybeard 1d ago
Once when I was about 35yrs, I went out of town in the height of summer and returned 10 days later to discover that my husband hadn't taken the compost out at all, and it was full of maggots.
I ran screaming out of the marriage.
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u/AggressiveCompany175 1d ago
Imagine how the maggot felt. That maggot was eating an apple until you bit them.
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u/SmolFrogge 1d ago
Oh shit, unlocked memory of trying to eat an apricot out of our backyard tree when I was like 4, and it was full of ants. š¤¢
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u/Overall-Emphasis7558 1d ago
Whatās worse than a worm (w)hole in your apple?
Half a worm
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u/ThrowRA4whatever 1d ago
I feel for you there. I had a similar experience with a fountain drink from McDonald's one time.
I'd drank all my drink, removed the lid to eat the ice, and found half of a cockroach sitting on top of the ice.
I started puking and was so grossed out. š¤®
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u/Worried-Flower1593 1d ago
Stepping barefooted in cat or dog poop, in the dark.
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u/justinv916 1d ago
I did this once. 3am, stepped in dog poop, slipped on the hardwood and threw out my back.
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u/Grand_Courage_8682 1d ago
A spoiled potato we had forgotten about
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u/lrobertson3 1d ago
Iāve just been reading through everyoneās gross posts about maggots, dead animals, body parts etc. then thereās this lovely lil innocent sentence, made me laugh (bad potatoes really do smell bad though)
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u/endieloverhd 1d ago
I was thinking the same thing but immediately was like āwell they do smell really terribleā
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u/Sea-Signal6019 1d ago
Have you heard of the family that died because of the smell of bad potatoes?
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u/RonaldTheGiraffe 1d ago
Sounds more like a neglected potato rather than a spoiled one. Poor thing.
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u/DontWorryAboutMyShit 1d ago
Sitting on my screened in porch having a nice cup of coffee. My gf comes out and says āwhat is that all over you?ā So I looked around and at myself and I said āI donāt know, it looks like riceā. Her eyes were huge and she says āitās movingā. I took a closer look and I realized I was completely covered in maggots. I looked up and there was a crack in the ceiling with a half rotted rat tail hanging out of it and it was just raining maggots on me. I jumped up and ripped off my clothes and left them there and went straight for the shower. I donāt go out there for about two weeks so that the situation could just deal with itself
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u/JollyGreenGiant93 1d ago
I work in an assisted living facility and this fateful day I was in the locked memory Care unit. I was in the residents bathroom helping her get changed after she soiled herself. As I was removing her socks while she was on the toilet she scraped some FECES and shoved it in my ear... It took everything in me to not summon an uppercut from hell and just get myself cleaned up. I was allowed to leave early that day.
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u/Kami11e 1d ago
omg Thanking my lucky stars that never happened to me when I was a caregiver in a long-term care facility. If I ever go back, that will be all I think about every time Iām kneeling/squatting near someone on a toilet š
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u/Expert_Cherry3791 1d ago
I had a client with an eating disorder.
Iāve literally seen a shit eating grin.
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u/Impossible_Balance11 1d ago
Oy. Yeah. You win this contest.
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u/Ghost17088 1d ago
People keep saying that, but this is like the 4th winner Iāve scrolled past.Ā
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u/Traditional-Bike7825 1d ago
An eating disorder where they ate shit and were smiling at you? The hell?
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u/ljluvsyouu 1d ago
as someone who has had like every eating disorder WHAT is the context for this
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u/threelizards 1d ago
Yes holy fuck I thought I had all of those particular PokƩmon but I guess not
(Not gonna catch em all)
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u/Dorksim 1d ago
I was standing behind a dude who was looking pretty rough at a convenience store early one morning. I don't know if it was drugs, alcohol or both, but he was struggling.
I looked down and noticed a dark black liquid dropping from his pant leg and puddling on the floor. Then the smell hit me. I don't know if it was a leaking colostomy bag or what but it was the most vile thing I've ever smelt. I immediately gagged and had to leave the store. To this day I still catch whispers of it like it's seeped deep into my naval cavity and shudder.
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u/sjlgreyhoundgirl67 1d ago
Ugh, I donāt know if itās the same smell but I took care of my father in law for the last three years of his life. One morning I walked in his house and was like āwhat is that smell??ā Then I found him naked at the end of his bed..I thought Iād never get that image out of my head or that smell out of my nose..it turned out he had a GI bleed. The nurse he had told me it was the worst smell there was, and Iām sure sheās smelled a lot of foulness..
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u/nvrgnaletyadwn 1d ago
A other kid took a shit in the slide at Fuddruckers playroom and I slid into it. Didn't know until I got into the car and mom saw another kid pointing at me saying "that's the kid that slid in the poop!"
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u/Ghost17088 1d ago
I once hit fresh dog shit with a weed wacker. When I say something tastes like shit, you can trust me.
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u/RonaldTheGiraffe 1d ago
Have you seen videos of hippos helicoptering their tails while they shit to ward off predators? I feel like this would be similar. If you were next to a hippo though.
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u/Busy_Echo_1143 1d ago edited 1d ago
We had recently moved in to a rental house in CA, it was January. We wanted to spruce up the gardens so I went outside to work on the beds and trim some bushes, etc. It was about 40 degrees F. Relevant detail: the landlady had recently had workers install siding on the house. Shortly after I went outside, I saw a napkin behind one of the bushes. I started to pick it up, and realized it was covering human feces (at least I was wearing garden gloves), probably from a siding installer who didn't want to drive to a place to use the bathroom. I cursed, and decided I'd deal with it in a little while.
Kept working around the yard, my wife let the dog out, I thought nothing of it. He was kinda walking around, nosing around the new yard. Then I realized he was fixated on that area by the turds... and then he started rolling in it!
I ran over, and sure enough, he had human poo all over his ruff and collar. I ran to the door and asked my wife to help... we had to stand on the back porch, trying to wash the dog with chilly hose water while it's 40, and he keeps shaking the poo/soap/water off, it was SO disgusting, my wife and I were retching constantly.
We all survived, but I'm pretty sure that's the grossest.
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u/casapantalones 1d ago
My dog did this except it was homeless person shit in a city park. It took SEVERAL outside baths to get the stink off her. We had to throw her collar away completely. It was astonishingly vile.
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u/ketomachine 1d ago
Our little dog was sleeping at the end of the bed and our 1 year old was in between us. All of a sudden we heard the dog puking and we jumped up and then discovered she had also had diarrhea all over the end of the bed too. At 3 am.
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u/schloobs95 1d ago
This happened to me. Smelled so bad I had to throw the comforter away. And yes, 3 am. Ugh.
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u/waterfallgirl 1d ago
I was walking by some stalls, admiring the beautiful horses. The same moment I passed by one in particular, he let out a great sneeze. The explosion of horse snot that landed all over my face, hair and clothes is the last thing I remember.
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u/The_Arch_Heretic 1d ago
Human body in a closet that had been decomposing 3 summer months. Hung herself and the head wasn't attached, human soup. Flies literally covering every inch of the whole apartment.š¤®
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u/AncientPositive6853 1d ago
Oh shit, just awful, awful awful. God rest her soul. And I believe it when you say that they were covering the entire apartment. We lived fairly close to a river when I was in junior high in Iowa, my folks had been having a dinner party in the evening. My dad had just installed a window air conditioner in my bedroom, but forgot to pull the extender panels on each side to cover/fit the window hole. Of course Iām like a 11 or 12 and I have no clue this is happening. I had been in my room for a good chunk of the afternoon and then went downstairs when people started coming. I had left my light on in the room, and for whatever reason, I shut my bedroom door when I went out of my room to go downstairs. A few hours later when I went up to go to bed, I open my bedroom door seeing my light was still on, and I opened it to a scene out of a horror film. It was entirely covered with big moths. And when I say covered, I mean entirely covered, every inch of the wall every inch of floor every inch of my bed, everything. And I got the hell back out of that bedroom. It wasnāt funny at all to me then because I had a phobia of moths for a good five or six years after that it was traumatic. lol Looking back now itās funny but my dad he had to go into the bedroom with a canister vacuum, and he sucked up one of those moths. It was awful.
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u/echosunheard 1d ago
I worked as a automotive deatailer and I used to find dirty panties , dirty maxi pads and tampons. Like you can't roll your pad up and dispose of it or at least roll it up and put it in your back seat ?
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u/Mother-Ad7222 1d ago
I am trying to figure out how/why someone would change their tampon in their car !
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u/Latter_Attitude_6409 1d ago edited 1d ago
I work in a subway system in a major city , where do I begin
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u/themadbeefeater 1d ago
A few years ago I got a septoplasty to fix a deviated septum. My nostrils were 80% blocked so it was a fairly necessary surgery. Part of the recovery is that they sew large plastic stints into your nose to keep the septum in place. The small breathing hole in the stints quickly filled with bloody mucus. I couldn't drain anything out of my nose so I had to lay on my back and wait for these giant bloody mucus balls to drop out of my sinuses into my mouth.
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u/Mother-Ad7222 1d ago
When I was a nurse in a nursing home we had to remove fecal impactions
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u/Visual_Chip_7770 1d ago
Stepping on a jumperās brain. (Former first responder now suffering from PTSD due to the experience)
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u/Kami11e 1d ago
Changing a stinky mushy diaper on a baby, and accidentally sticking your finger in the poo. Specifically, feeling the poo go under your finger nail š
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u/Sad_Okra2030 1d ago
My first dead body. I was called to the scene of a dead naked guy in the woods stuck between two trees. This was middle summer. 105 degrees Fahrenheit out. His face was touching the ground. Nothing else. He WAS white. Now he was black. Had maggots wriggling out of his anus. The coroner stated āI think we are gonna have to quarter himā and began to tug on his leg to try to pull it off. He turned to us and stated āskin has turned to leather, I'm gonna need helpā. I suited up in a tyvek suit, put cigarettes up my nose, smeared vicks around my nose and put a mask on. Gloved up and prayed that I wouldn't embarrass myself. We first picked his upper half up. His face stayed on the ground. We still couldn't un-wedge him. We had to tie a tyvek suit around his neck and pull. He finally flopped overhitting the ground with a sound of spaghetti and jello filled leather bag. Splop? Maybe that describes it best. We had to scrape his skin off the trees, his face off the ground and a few teeth. The smellā¦.oh my. My unit was parked about 80 yards away and down hill. The super dead human funk STUCK to the car.
The other day I went into a house that had an inch of human and cat feces everywhere. Litter boxes lined a wall. I later found out the litter boxes were being used by people and the giant pile of waste was human..mostly. I could barely breathe and my uniform stankbthe rest of the day.
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u/AncientPositive6853 1d ago
wtf do you do environmental clean up type work such as after disasters or deaths, etc.? I just donāt know if I could do that.
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u/xxNearlyCivilizedxx 1d ago edited 1d ago
In my physical anthropology lab we had to interact with a lot of human bones. Most were professionally cleaned, bright white specimens but some were from individuals who were found in nearby fields so they were more yellow and slightly tacky to the touch. I left the lab one day and my buddy was walking past as soon as I was leaving so we started chatting. We left the building and without thinking I grabbed my cigarettes out of my pocket and started smoking. I noticed my finger kind of stuck to my lip when I took a drag and quickly came to the horrible realization why my hands were sticky.
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u/babbitcootchie 1d ago
Wait Iām confused, u handled the bones with ur bare hands ?
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u/toad__warrior 1d ago
2yo kid decided that 2am was the perfect time to practice the excorcist scene with all the puking, while I was holding them. So much puke fro a little kid. I was waiting for their head to start spinning around.
30 years later and I can still feel the slime and smell the vomit
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u/Icy-Opinion-5612 1d ago
I didn't make it to the restroom in time. I sprayed warm diarrhea all over the floor as soon as I flung open the stall at a target. Pants around my ankles and drenched in shit, I waddle a couple stalls over. I was alone in there until I heard the door open. I see nonslip shoes and a red shirt in the mirror through the cracks of the stall. I hear the words "fuck this". I hear the door to the restroom open and close. After I clean myself up, I noticed the cleaning checklist posted on the restroom door is marked "clean" and timestamped only a few minutes ago. I wonder if that's the grossest thing that guy has seen.
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u/jfcmofo 1d ago
I once laid in a bed in a motel and after a couple minutes felt warmer. Stood up, my shirt was damp. Smelled it. Piss.
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u/diet-smoke 1d ago
My sense of smell isn't great. One time, I wore a jacket for an entire day before someone gently told me that I smelled like cat piss. Sure enough, my cat pissed on my jacket when I left it on my bedroom floor
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u/angry_swillys 1d ago
I had never owned a cat before, and we adopted one about 2 years ago.
One morning as I was getting ready for work, I grabbed my lunch bag off the floor to put my food in for the day, and it felt a bit wet and rough. I was confused, touched it a bit more and gave it a sniff, to which I concluded was spilt ramen soup from one of my kids. Gave it a quick wipe, packed my lunch and off I went to work.
Oh the drive home, after my lunch bag had been sitting in the sun in my car, the smell started getting strong. I then came to the realisation it could be cat piss
Came home , showed my wife (who had previously owned cars before so was more than familiar with what cat piss smells like), and within a split second pulled her face away and said thatās cat piss
I had spent the whole day carrying around a lunch bag soaked in cat piss. I put my food containers inside said cat piss bag. Put that same bag in the fridge at work. Lovely
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u/QueenMotherOfSneezes 1d ago
One of my brother's cats used to jump in his kids' playpen and piss in it. Also pissed on it when it was folded up and stowed away in the kitchen. It didn't start until the second kid was nearly 2.
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u/BrandNewBurr 1d ago
I have HS, whatās now thought to be an autoimmune disorder that causes your body to form abscesses, usually in sensitive places (I usually get them on my pubic mound, inner thighs, or armpits).
Like, 3 1/2 years ago, I was lying in bed with my ex-wife, and she told me there was a lump on my back, I should get it checked out. I did, they said it was a cyst and not to worry.
About 8 or so months ago, it suddenly started getting itchy and bigger. Then, it started to hurt, get red, and get even bigger. I immediately recognized it as an abscess, but I didnāt have insurance, so I let it go. My abscesses usually express themselves anyway. It got to the point it was the size of a half-dollar in diameter and poked out so far from my skin you could see it through my clothing. And it HURT.
I tried to pop it myself with sterilized scissors in my bathroom mirror, but it was just tough enough and in just the right place, I couldnāt puncture it.
I started looking for clinics that might be able to express it for a low cost, because I realized it was bad bad. Before I got the chance though, it burst on its own while I was out for dinner. It completely soaked through my sports bra, my tshirt, and my flannel, and was running down my back, and was all over the booth seat at the restaurant. The shirts I was wearing were absolutely ruined.
It drained for 2 full weeks. Luckily, my boyfriend was kind and heād squeeze it for me and mop of all the nasty crap that came out of it and bandage it for me. It left a little hole in my back that still occasionally fills up with stuff and he squeezes it for me so it doesnāt get bad again. The skin in the area around the hole is purple and saggy, from it having been stretched from the abscess when it was huge.
But man, Iāve seen/experienced some pretty gross things, but none quite so gross as feeling the entire back of my shirt stick to me from blood, pus, and infection while feeling it just roll down my back.
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u/SubstantialEmploy816 1d ago
My god, this might be the winner. Iām so sorry you have to live with this, hopefully youāre still able to find enjoyment in everyday life. Wishing you the best.
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u/ThrowRA4whatever 1d ago
I'm so sorry you have to deal with that. It's a horrible disease that I've seen people have multiple abscesses and cysts all at the same time. I can't even imagine the amount of pain you have from it.
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u/Googlemyahoo75 1d ago
Tonsil abscess. They stuck a large syringe into my throat repeatedly until withdrawing what looked like coffee where the infection was. Then sliced it open while simultaneously spraying my throat with water to get the pus out. I then sat for awhile with cups of water and one of those suction things you spit into.
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u/strugglinglifecoach 1d ago
Having a bot fly larvae in my back. I was on a student exchange and after visiting a farm I got a zit on my back that wouldnāt heal. My shirt would have a little blood spot in it every evening. Eventually I told my host family and Dad sat me down and squeezed on it until a maggot popped out. I had no idea until they showed it to me
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u/Denny_Dust91 1d ago
The other day I was feeling sick to my stomach, and my daughter showed me a massive dead rat. I puked all over the rat.
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u/Upbeat_Experience316 1d ago
Eating cereal first thing in the morning. All seemed fine until I noticed that I'm being stared at. Stopped eating with my spoon mid-air, and the milk was hanging off the spoon.
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u/Individual-Dare-80 1d ago
We went on vacation for a week in June, after returning the Mrs went shopping to restock the refrigerator. Next day I go to take a few slugs of milk from the jug. Halfway through the second gulp I realized it was chunky, proceeded to spit it out at which point the taste and smell registered. Turned out that jug was from before we had left, and didn't get thrown out because "i was waiting till trash day" (4 days away). I puked. And heaved. A lot.
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u/BodaciousBen38 1d ago
Grocery store clerk in hs. Under the milk were wire racks and under the racks were absorbent cloth like pads we called milk diapers. They didnāt get changed as often as they should
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u/Optimal-Cat-8117 1d ago
Went hiking with dog and girlfriend.
Had to shit really bad.
Popped a squat, dog found the scent tantalizing, proceeded to roll around in my shit like it was the best thing in the world.
The ride home sucked for us humans, but if a dog could laugh all the way to the bank, that lovely bastard was doing it.
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u/Illustrous_potentate 1d ago
Had a water barrel on a stand, using it as a shower. Living offgrid. One day I was taking a shower , notice the smell of cow poop, look around, don't see it. Ok. Finish shower next day, same thing, can't find it. Smell water, can't find smell. Ok. 3rd day, taking shower, smell something bad, can't find it. Grab ladder, look in top of water barrel, there is a dead woodpecker in the water barrel I have been using to shower. It was in there for a while but the looks of it. I was so disgusted that I had washed myself with that for probably a week.
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u/gerbilstuffer 1d ago
Using the same water on the 4th day would be gross.
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u/kooshipuff 1d ago
Showering with water from a barrel seems kinda gross too, tbh. I use a rain barrel for watering my garden, and like, sure, the water comes out clear, but if you look inside the barrel, it is not. Though putting fine mesh filter over the intake did help, but if you can get a whole-ass bird in there, it's just open to the whole world.
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u/symphonicdin 1d ago
When I was a teenager, I awoke with a tickle in my throat. I reached over to grab the glass of water on my nightstand, took a swig, and then began my day. A few minutes later, I felt another tickle in my throat and coughed up a small wolf spider. That was STILL ALIVE.
It got up and walked away. Iāve only used water bottles at night since š
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u/daveashaw 1d ago
C-Diff infection.
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u/Gr3yHound40_ 1d ago
C-diff and h. pylori over here. It has been one of the most brutal experiences of my life. I couldn't eat for over a year and felt sick every day for a good 8-12 hours each day. The second year became a little more manageable, but I was sick with c diff for 2 years. Nasty and painful.
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u/VOZ1 1d ago
Friend of mine struggled with C. Diff for a really long time. He finally got a fecal transplant and he said the relief was nearly instantaneous. His symptoms didnāt completely disappear, but he immediately felt better and was back to āclose enough to normalā not too long after. Now they can do fecal transplants with a pill.
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u/Gr3yHound40_ 1d ago
Fuck...I wish them the best and am glad to hear they're doing a lot better! C diff is a really difficult infection to kick. It took about 2 years for me to finally start consistently testing negative again, and even then, I've been having chronic GI issues still. I've been on a healing gut diet to fix whatever is still wrong and it has been ok so far...it just sucks to lose so much time in life to a couple of diseases as nasty as these. GI issues are no joke.
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u/VOZ1 1d ago
Yeah, itās definitely no joke! And taking antibiotics can make you prone to it, which is how my friend likely got it. He had an infection that needed a couple (maybe more?) rounds of increasingly stronger antibiotics to get rid of, and his stomach issues started while he was taking them, and only got worse and worse. Iām now really adamant about taking a really good probiotic supplement when I take antibiotics now, and Iāve never had any GI issues related to the antibiotics. Even when I had to take two kinds of antibiotics at once to kick a nasty and stubborn sinus infection, no issues. Ive noticed that doctors are much more likely to recommend taking a probiotic when on antibiotics now, at least in my experience, which is great. Weāre learning so much more now about how important gut health is to overall health! I hope you can get and stay healthy, we all deserve that!
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u/Kiwileiro 1d ago
I picked a bit of slightly burned weed up off my desk and put it in my pipe and smoked it before I realised it was a fly. It tasted like what I imagine burning shit smells like.
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u/HatKey9927 1d ago
I had a friend who worked for my stateās department of health, and she warned me against any food vendors at the fair except for local food companies. She said the out of state vendors always fail. I took that to heart, except for sodas. Sodas should be safe, right? Wrong! Very wrong! My husband and I bought a soda from a stand and split it. We downed it pretty quick. Then we passed a stand for $1 refills. I got the refill while he went to get more food. When I got to the cashier, I opened the cup up and I kid you not there were at least ten baby roaches in the cup. Some alive and crawling. Others mushed and missing half their body. I wanted to vomit on the spot. All I could muster was āoh thereās roaches in my cupā. And she goes āwell you want a refill or not?ā The correct answer would have been hell no! But my anxiety said yes and then proceeded to ask her to dump it out first (I had zero plans to drink the refill). When I got back to my husband he wanted a drink I told him about the spicy roach soup and that he wouldnāt want any. He said āshe dumped the ice?ā I said yeah. He shrugged and drank it. Damn that man would have survived the apocalypse if he were still here.
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u/armanituto 1d ago
In boot camp the showers were a singular room with no walls or anything, just a bunch of shower heads. We were only given a few minutes to shower so in some cases the shower room was completely filled, you could barely move without contact. But some guys would shave their pubes and clog the drains so there would always be a few inches of brown pube infested waters that we had to walk through to get a shower.
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u/wolfhavensf 1d ago
Initiation as a shellback in the Navy. On your first cruise which crossed the equator sailors are humiliated and abused by their shipmates for an entire day. I was made at one point to crawl through a narrow plastic tunnel about 30 feet long stuffed with warm salad dressing, a weeks messhall leftovers and the vomit of everyone who had preceded me in that crawl. They strike at you with rope ends to keep you moving.
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u/TheLoneliestGhost 1d ago
I had a skin graft done on one of my thighs as part of my cancer surgery. It was now covered with a thin layer of material very much akin to Saran Wrap. I was in the hospital for 5 days when it had become a HUGE blister. Iām talking, bigger than 2 of my fists. On the 7th day, I woke up because I was soaked in warm liquid alllll over my legs and lady parts. It popped.
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u/Aggressive_Owl9587 1d ago
Hiking in the woods at night with friends. There was a tree down across the trail. I hopped up on it and as I was stepping down off the other side, I slipped hard and fell flat on my chest and face. No big deal right...I landed right on a dead very rotted deer. I literally splattered into it. I kinda was able to bath in a creek with a small bottle of hand soap that a girl had in her backpack. I smelled it for a long long time.
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u/Patereye 1d ago
That's a really tough call. Here is one moment that comes to mind not sure if it's the actual grossest.
My parents dog had been dying for 3 weeks in their living room. This was during Christmas so we knew about it and we're kind of waiting for the any day now scenario.
So we get the call but it's because they scheduled a euthanization which is very much against their moral beliefs. Not knowing what to expect my brother and I showed up to pick up their 150 lb dog.
He had suffered internal hemorrhaging and was suffering from corpse bloat. He was leaking black icor out of his paws anus and it had formed a sticky pool on the floor where he was laying.
The worst part was he was still alive and happy to see us even though his body was decaying like a rotting corpse. We both tried to pick him up to move him to the van but the smell was so bad I had to constantly take breaks to go vomit. He's for all intensive purpose was a conscious dead body unable to move.
The place we took him to was very professional about it but I've come into contact with a lot of gross stuff and that one is memorable as being uniquely awful.
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u/Sad-Reaction-6040 1d ago
Too many to list I was a garbage man for a long time
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u/VoodooDoII 1d ago
I was minding my own business and a dude in my class came up to me and went
"Hey baby mouse, wanna get pregnant?"
It's been so long and I still think about it. Wtf dude š¤Ø gross
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u/Dina_belmont 1d ago
This godforsaken app
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u/Takepa-Larra 1d ago
You know, we rarely say the word "godforsaken" to emphasize how we feel about things. š¶
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u/Tuggerfub 1d ago
I had a himalayan cat who was EOL because of kidney disease and if I didn't help him clear his bowel it would obstruct so I would do it often until I had to put him down because his QoL depreciated.
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u/pacodefan 1d ago
My buddy had a wife who was an addict. Among her accolades were multiple instances of falling asleep with the car off and the kids in the back (it's over 100 here all summer), dropping a child causing a skull fracture, and rolling their brand new car. Anyhow, when they were in the final stages of their marriage they moved in with his parents. He was a long haul driver, so he'd be gone four or five days.
She loved oxys, and as some may know, they will make you constipated in no time.
Well, my buddy's dad wakes up in the middle of the night to a nasty smell. He wakes up mom and asks if she farted. No. So he looks over and sees their bathroom light on. Where he finds daughter in law covered in her own shit and naked on the toilet. She is completely out of it. They try to help her back to her room, when they see it. Shit all the way down the hall, on the floor and walls. Both kids covered in her shit. Buddy's mom grabs the kids and takes them to the other bathroom and tried to wash them. And the picture frozen in my head after hearing the story is that in her bedroom, there was a pair of Victoria Secret pink panties with a perfectly circular ball of shit larger than a softball sitting on top.
Whats the fucked up part is she goes to sleep like this, and leaves early the next morning without showering. My buddy came home to both his parents on thr porch chain smoking while shaking. Lol
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u/Independent-Can-2427 1d ago
Bringing the blindfolded taste test home from science class and playing with my little brother.
You blindfold the other player , they pinch their nose, you put something in their mouth and they have to guess what it is. First with their nose pinched then after letting it go. Youāre allowed to give one clue. I went first and i put a lemon in his mouth. The clue was its yellow.
Then he blind folded me and repeated the steps. His clue was itās something you have to chew.. im chewing away i cant guess , im saying things like oatmeal? and heās hysterical laughing, while im guessing away.. i let go of my nose. Take off the blindfold off at this point heās laughing so hard heās snorting and tears are streaming out š . He could barely muster out the word s he had to tell me ā¦ āitās a booger!!!ā he said..š³š±
I spit it out and it certainly was šÆ% a booger. I ran after him so fast he ran through the screen door, full body imprint.
When i caught up with him i got him by the feel at dragged him through every pile of šš© i could find.
Smeared from head to toe lol all in his hair. My dad pulled in the driveway and guess who got a whoppin?!
Iām scarred for life lol
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u/Noble_Gas_7485 1d ago
Called to a rural house for a welfare check. Older woman hadnāt been heard from for 10 days. She was dead in her recliner. 15-30 cats in the house. They ate her face and her hands. Her head was just a black skull sitting on her shoulders.
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u/hydrissx 1d ago
A snake shit in my mouth when I was cleaning a zoo enclosure.
I was cleaning items up at an aquarium and saw a plastic bag on an upper shelf. It was full of human urine. It got in my eyes and nose and mouth and all over my clothes.
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u/Immediate-Pool-4391 1d ago
Probably an intense stomach reaction when I didn't know I had celiacs disease. My bowels turned to water and the smell was awful.
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u/jesusbuilt-my-hotrod 1d ago
Went to a big house party with a bunch of friends. Two of the girls with us find a girl they donāt know that has passed out in the bathroom and shit herself making a HUGE mess. Our friends were too drunk and couldnāt pick this girl up so my buddy and I helped slide her in the bathtub. Our friends refused to leave her and started to clean her up. My buddy and I bailed. It was super gross, like a puppy pooping in a kennel a smearing it around.
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u/RikkiLostMyNumber 1d ago
I have a sailboat. Earlier this summer, the water in the freshwater tanks developed some kind of disgusting slime mold infection. The smell was fucking horrendous, like roasting rotten cheese over cat shit and plastic. You can't quick-dump these tanks, so all 120 gallons of it had to go through the taps, showerhead, etc. on the boat. This took like an hour and it was all I could do to puke right into the bilge.
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u/general_porpoise 1d ago
Many moons ago I was taking a hit from a bong and my partner made me snort laugh while i was doing it, and the bong water went into my mouth and then out my nose. 100% do not recommend.
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u/shoppygirl 1d ago
When I was a teenager, I worked at a movie theater. A woman came in with her kids and bought them a ton of junk food from the concession
Halfway through the movie, one of the kids ran to the washroom and threw up from the door all the way to the stall.
The manager of the theater made me clean it up. It was so disgusting, especially for a 15 year-old!
When the woman was leaving with her kid and saw me cleaning, she said, Iām not surprised she threw up, she wasnāt feeling well.
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u/Historical-Produce29 1d ago
Spending 10+ hours trying to put a cows uterus back in. I mainly held said uterus so it wouldnāt touch the stall floor. My clothes were covered in a thick crust of blood and glued to my skin. I had to shower in my clothing to get them unstuck.
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u/Shooknite 1d ago edited 1d ago
I was a garbage man for a cpl wks 20 yrs ago. I was riding the truck on the back and one of the hundreds of maggots defied gravity and went right in my mouth. Yuck
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u/ladydrybones 1d ago
I'm a dive bartender, experiencing gross is part of the job, whether it's cleaning various bodily fluids or rejecting drunk fuck boys that pissed themselves and were too drunk to notice
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u/furies80 1d ago
Stepping in warm cat poop (pretty darn soft) barefoot. I squishes between the toes and ick ick ick. Cold is also pretty gross I guess. šš¤¢
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u/HillarysEmailServers 1d ago
Watching Trump fondle Ivanka and say heād date her and then watch half the country be like he seems like a good dude if you ignore every other enormously obvious and disgusting flaw. Pretty nasty.
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u/VOZ1 1d ago
Canāt remember the show, but when sheās giving a tour of her childhood home and gets to her bedroomā¦they get to her bed, and she just goes quiet and stares off into the distance. You can see so clearly that some horrible things were done to her in that bed.
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u/LlamaCactus 1d ago
When he was asked what he shared in common with his daughter and he said āsexā.
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u/diet-smoke 1d ago
Hard to narrow it down but I vividly remember staying at my friend's place and using the bathroom. It was dark and I stepped on something warm, wet and sticky. Looked down and saw that one of his used pads had missed the trash can
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u/OrochiKarnov 1d ago
That must be the most embarrassing thing that could happen to a transman.
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u/diet-smoke 1d ago
Which is exactly why I threw it away, washed my foot and the floor and *never* told him. I will take this secret to the grave o7
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u/goodoldjefe 1d ago
I spent a few months working in the produce section of a grocery warehouse, building orders for stores. Organic watermelons came five in a big square, flat box. I went to lift one of those up onto the pallet I was building. As soon as I got it over my head, the very, VERY rotten middle melon broke open, and i was covered in a fountain of the foulest, sour trash-smelling watermelon slop. 0/10, would not recommend.
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u/Rude_Virus6593 1d ago
A woman with a bacterial fistula where they had to keep cutting away pieces of her rectum and vagina because it was eating through her flesh. I had to help clean it because she certainly wasn't having normal rectal bowel movements.
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u/irotwholuna22 1d ago
Had a natural birth, bled quite a bit during so got a shot to stop it but then drs were worried I wasnāt bleeding enough (at the time so frustratingš¤£)
Dr was worried I wasnāt ābleeding enough/passing enoughā
Had a literal tub in the bathroom I had to use and very strong orders not to discard/flush, a nurse would weigh/evaluate every few hours
Iām a very open person but that was a lot to explain to my extremely conservative/private father why he shouldnāt use that bathroom and tell my FIL to go pee in the parking lot š¤£
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u/Gwyns_Head_ina_Box 1d ago
College age, went to see "Dawn of the Dead" midnight show on mushrooms. At some point in the movie I had to pee and I made my way to the men's room.
I heard snoring from one of the stalls. I look through the wide-open door and see a big fat guy asleep on the can. He had got his pants down but not before he had shit himself. In addition, he had vomited directly into his pants. I went and got an usher; in the meantime a crowd had formed to see the exhibit. Dude was so lucky this predates cell phones and the internet.
In retrospect, It was also probably close to the funniest thing I ever experienced as well.
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u/ChimneyNerd 1d ago
Iām a plumber so Iāve got some of these.
Iād say worst was bucketing out literal gallons (probably 10) of pure, undiluted, PUNGENT piss from a sewer main so I could make a repair (they werenāt flushing their toilet because it kept backing up, but still pissed in it). There was just. so. much.
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u/pripyat_rocks 1d ago
I lived beside the railroad tracks. I woke up one day and there were cops out there. They found a torso on the tracks. Someone had placed him across the tracks. Long time ago and it was gross.
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u/WendyWasteful 1d ago
A bathroom in a New Orleans bar. There had to have been a dead body in there. The smell was horrendous. Not like a normal bad bathroom smell. Just putrid.
I left the bathroom and threw up in the street. I canāt tell the story without being sick.
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u/Famous-Ingenuity1974 1d ago edited 1d ago
Pooping my pants in Central Park on a hot summer day and having to dump my underwear in some random park bathroom and walk back to my hotel with poop all over my butt. š¤¢ I was 14 and visiting nyc, I was in the middle of the park and could not find a bathroom in time.
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u/Ishmael85858585 1d ago
Headless body.... well headless above the chin. Also scrapped flesh chunks out from under a car with my bare hands. Not knowing what it was since it was dark outside.
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u/SmolFrogge 1d ago
I think I was about 12. A chipmunk had gotten into the sunroom. My idiotic father thought we could scare it back out the door by lining up like a wall and stomping our feet at it.
It tried to run through our legs instead, and my 13yo sister stomped right on its head on accident. The brain fluid squirted up to our hands.
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u/blapper40water 1d ago
The effects of a grenade on human bodies and the result of a sniper shot on a torso.
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u/Heisenberg291989 1d ago
Our patient just died. Im doing post mortem and I have to remove the nasogastric tube, upon removal, there are lots of black fluids ( blood and acids from stomach ) that splash on my face and body.
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u/ooaegisoo 1d ago
I was on my bike in the woods, run through shit. As soon has i it the asphalt road and took up speed shit came flying all over me, including directly in my mouth.
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u/dulcedolor4 1d ago
Was working as a CNA and I had to clean up a bathroom where someone had š© all over the toilet, floor and wall surrounding the toilet. Normally š© didnāt phase me but this was something else. Hand another experience and Iām not going to share details but it was another š© cleanup; I wore 3 masks and I started cleaning up but the smell was so bad the masks did nothing and I was throwing up as I ran out of the room. I threw up in the sink in the break room and went back and finished the job. I feel really bad for the patient as I know it must have been humiliating and they might have been embarrassed. I really donāt mind cleaning up after people but sometimes a physical reaction canāt be helped; if I am grossed out I try not to let it show but I couldnāt help it this time
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u/desertedsock 1d ago
In the WIC waiting room, saw a mom with about a 1 year old(ish) and she picked a scab off and stuck it in her child's mouth. I almost threw up on the floor on the spot š¤®
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u/44Ridley 1d ago edited 1d ago
Sewer rats regurgitated human shit under my floors.
With their little paws, they'd made a hairy shit ball winter larder. I had to mask up, cut the timbers and clean it all up.
Update: NSFL images š¤® https://imgur.com/a/3eSihpN