Summary
Overview
Hosts Dan Shepard and Lily Padman present 'Armchair Anonymous: Foreign Objects Part 3,' featuring stories from medical professionals about patients who inserted various objects into body cavities. The episode includes three main stories: Randy, a retired paramedic, shares a tale about a 14-year-old with a Super Soaker stuck in his rectum; John, an ER nurse, recounts an elderly man's three separate hospital visits for food items and a toothbrush holder; and Lucy describes an 80-year-old widower with a wooden banister. The episode concludes with Josie's harrowing story about a young woman with Munchausen syndrome who inserted razor blades into her vagina and later swallowed one.
Introduction and First Story: The Super Soaker Incident
The hosts introduce the episode with warnings about sensitive content and screaming reactions. Randy, a retired paramedic from Florida with 35 years of experience, shares a story from his career about responding to a 14-year-old boy who had gotten a Super Soaker water gun attachment stuck in his rectum. The boy initially kept his mother out of the room but eventually had to involve her when removal at home failed, requiring hospital transport and sedation for extraction.
- Randy is a retired paramedic with 35 years of experience who loves retirement and stays busy with home improvements
- A 14-year-old boy called 911 without his mother's knowledge after getting a Super Soaker attachment stuck in his rectum
- The paramedics had to detach the water tank from the tube to make transport easier
- The boy required sedation at the hospital for removal of the object
- Randy tried to comfort the boy by saying experimentation at that age is common
" Every time I think I've seen it all, I see something I've never seen before. "
" I told him I said I was his age once. "
Second Story: The Serial Rectal Inserter
John, an ER nurse with 14 years of experience in Ohio, shares a remarkable story about a patient who made three separate emergency room visits for rectal foreign objects. The first visit involved three bratwursts that required surgery and resulted in a colostomy. Shortly after, the same patient returned with an apple, which was successfully removed using a string the patient had threaded through it. The final visit involved a toothbrush holder, leading to more extensive surgery.
- Patient's first visit involved three bratwursts stuck in his rectum, requiring surgery and resulting in a colostomy
- The patient returned with an apple that had been cored with a string through it for easier removal
- Third visit involved a toothbrush holder that required opening his abdomen and removing dead bowel tissue
- The surgeon discovered the patient had been to another hospital with similar incidents
- All incidents occurred when the patient's wife was out of town
" He wanted to feel what it felt like. So he went to the fridge and he got bratwursts. "
" He ended up having a colostomy after that. "
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