Yup, someone really did bring in their child because he was smelly. The dog and the booger are both fictional scenarios made up by ER BFF and I respectively that we are convinced WILL happen one of these days. We're just waiting for it.
The inevitable question I'm getting whenever I tell real world friends this story is "was the kid really that smelly?" I'm afraid I can't even answer that question. He was in a pod next to a patient with a GI bleed, all you could really smell in that whole part of the ER that night was melena and sorrow. So, I guess not smelly enough to overpower the scent of GI bleed poo, then. Thanks for playing.
I've gotten report before on a baby where I was told it smelled funny. Not mec stained either. Just smelled funny. Baby did but no idea why.
ReplyDeleteWhen I was younger my parents had to take me to the doctor 'cause I just smelled horrible for a few days, even after numerous baths. Turns out I stuck a piece of a nerf-ball up my nose a week or so before... Doctor had to use tweezers to remove it.
ReplyDeleteIf the kid had smelled funny enough to overpower melena, I think that might have been a legitimate cause for concern.
ReplyDelete"melena and sorrow" **snort**
ReplyDeleteWell there is that condition where people don't break down certain amino acids, but legit or not - it is NOT an emergency!
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