eh, I don’t even flinch at those anymore. BTW, it’s pilonidal cyst, generally found between the buttocks, and up toward the sacrum. When it gets infected, it’s often by anaerobic bacteria, which smell far worse than aerobic infections (but not as bad as gangrene!!!)
I’ve heard the networks have already filled their schedules for the fall, but there is always the chance of their needing replacements. This thread would make a wonderful talk show say for right around dinner.
I once witnessed a very heavy smoker, upon sitting down at the breakfast table right after rising from sleep, cough up a big green lung biscuit that flew right out of his mouth and landed, plop, onto the table behind his plate. It was an opaque greyish shiny gelatinous blob that appeared to quiver for a moment before coming to a complete rest.
He didn’t even notice it.
Everyone else at the table nearly hurled their OJ and coffee. The consumption of eggs that morning was very light - except for the smoker.
The only thing that I think could surpass that is something that I haven’t witnessed, but it was described to me by an emergency room nurse: a patient with a perforated ulcer being wheeled in on a gurney while vomiting liters of fresh blood.
(Why is SDMB full of all these gross topics today? It’s almost like my old stomping ground, alt.tasteless, except without all the porn spam and elitist oldtimers.)
Bug, the first part of your post made me laugh so hard, I don’t know why, it’s gross, but imagining the people’s reaction at the table had me on the floor. :D:
As for the second part, I’ve seen that happen before to my grandmother. It’s graphic, but what are you going to do? That’s life.
One thing I left out…My grandmother is now in the company of angels, bless her heart. Actually both of my grandmothers are in heaven now. I love you both.
about three days after being dead in the water.
Bloated and oozing, just gross.
Watching someone bleed to death from just about every possible place. Been there, done that and its gross to the limit!
I really have to know. How was the wound caused in the first place, and how in the world did it get that far before he came to see a doctor? Or had he been seeing a doctor and was just not responding to treatment? I can’t imagine not realizing something terrible was happening here.
Myself, I am gratified that everyone has chosen to ignore this as a “disgusting condition.” I’m always offering to help Mrs. Kang get this way, and (sadly) Mrs. Kang is just as frequently declining.
Hows about dissecting a colon during an autopsy, only to discover a fatal Ascaris infestation?
I’d think finding spongiform encephalopathy would be pretty bad, too.
Burned human flesh. The smell. Urp.
He was a diabetic in complete denial. 1st visit to a doctor in a year. The sad thing was, the last time he came in, 18 months earlier, his other foot had gas gangrene, and was amputated! Failed to keep follow-up appointments, or respond to phone calls or registered letters to come back for care. He came in only when he could no longer deny that something was wrong.
I have to agree about those gangrenous foot/leg ulcers on diabetics. Ugh ugh ugh. In HS I worked in the pathology lab at the hospital & we got a few amputated legs with those ulcers. They’d be sealed in a box, but you’d still smell them coming before you saw the specimen cart. The stench is just indescribably awful, putrid yet sweet at the same time, & they’re not that pretty to look at either.
In terms of sheer volume of grossed-outness, though, I’m gonna have to go with loogie-hawking. I gag if I even think about that noise, let alone watching them drip slimily out of someone’s mouth. I cannot fathom how anyone can think that is an acceptable thing to do in public. You know, I’ll probably get some disbelief on this one, but I have NEVER hawked a loogie in my life, & I have lived a full and rich & fulfilling life. It is NOT NECESSARY!!! Stop it! STOP IT NOW!!!
Not nearly as fatal or debilitating a condition as some of those already mentioned, but in college a roommate of one of my friends had a moderate case of acne combined with atrocious personal hygiene.
We were eating pizza together just after he had apparently finished a session of pimple popping and scratching at his face, and there were yellow-orange droplets of oil emerging from his nose and cheeks. I looked at his face, looked at the pepperoni pizza, looked back at his face…
It was the only time in my four years of college that I ever walked away from a pizza.
–sublight.
I cant begin to tell you
HOW SORRY I AM!!! for starting this thread!!!
BLEEECCCHHH!!!
Probably about as sorry as I feel having read it. And read it. And read it. I can’t keep away!! [sub]and frankly that’s beginning to frighten me[/sub]
Didn’t a guy just get $2 billion for not noticing that smoking does this kinds stuff to you?
I come originally from a major seaport in the UK and those ‘Big green lung biscuits’ are known locally as dock-yard oysters. Never did like seafood that much…