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Most grim 'yuck' thing that's happened to you

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Coldemort · 05/09/2020 16:52

Inspired by a response in another thread...

I live in a block of flats next to a canal. One warm, dusky, summer evening I took my rubbish to the bin store and..... stood on a decomposing rat. It was a monster, I was wearing fabric ballet flats and it went with an almighty pop. I was stood on decomposing rat guts up to my (bare) ankles. I couldnt even take my shoes off as there was broken glass on the floor so had to shuffle back home with rat gut shoes

Anyone care to beat that?

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Coffeecak3 · 05/09/2020 22:18

Just started a shift when a patients catheter bag burst entire contents over my shoes. Had to squelch through an 8 hour shift smelling of stale urine.
Also had to empty a bell jar of chest secretions, vile smelling pus, into the sluice, wash jar and replace, I was heaving.
The lady with a bleeding stomach ulcer vomiting what looked like lumps of liver and I had to change her vomit bowls as they filled.
And the old lady who had a gangrenous leg crawling with maggots that had to be cleaned daily.
Those were the days.

LooseleafTea · 05/09/2020 22:21

Walking a dog that every so often found human poo on popular beauty spot walks and rolled in it and reappeared looking pleased with it matted right into its hair.

Being given a sandwich on a picnic which tasted funny and the friend making it Hadn’t noticed that maggots had got into the ham . I had eaten half but had struggled with how disgusting it tasted and the maggots were big fat ones.

LooseleafTea · 05/09/2020 22:22

Wow these nursing ones make everything else seem quite tame !

Elsiebear90 · 05/09/2020 22:35

I used to work in pathology, I remember one day having to mash up baby vomit with acid to see if the blood in it was from the baby or the mum.

Also remember having to test pus from a labial cyst on a 92 year old, that put me off my lunch.

I was crimping a unit (bag) of blood and it burst and squirted all over my face and into my mouth and eyes.

I’m now clinical, most disgusting thing I’ve seen was a patient with diabetic feet and legs have a black necrotic toe fall off while her bandage was removed, actually the smell was worse than the sight.

FredaFox · 05/09/2020 22:36

This thread is amazing 😅

ladybird69 · 05/09/2020 22:37

I had a drunk projectile vomit all over me in a night club once that was grim, he just wiped his mouth with his tie and shuffled off. While washing a chicken ready to cook shoved my hand inside it’s cavity to find that the innards had been left in and I popped them and the contents smelt like nothing on earth. Worse one was when travellers were camping on nearby park. We went for a walk and stood in some human shit! Then realised we were basically taking a stroll through the travellers ‘toilet’ I threw up and still have nightmares about it.

RaingodsWithZippos · 05/09/2020 22:44

I'm telling this story not because I want any pity at all, so please don't feel bad if you laugh - i can giggle about it too now...

My DH was in his last days in hospital. He had a brain tumour and had very little idea what was going on, but this one afternoon he knew he wanted a poo, but he was bedbound so needed a bed pan. I went and found a nurse and asked her to bring the bed pan, then to give him some privacy went to the day room to make a cup of tea. The nurse apologetically came into the day room to say he had chucked the nurse and HCA out of the room and he only wanted me there! So I went back in and he sat on this bed pan holding my hand and looking into my eyes whilst having a shit GrinEnvy

It was a real low point in our relationship, it was a good job I loved him!

Rhine · 05/09/2020 22:44

Swimming in the sea in Turkey when a huge shit suddenly floated right past my face.

Hawkmoth · 05/09/2020 22:49

Puppy, before we'd been able to get her into the vet, vomiting her (still moving) roundworm load. I was unwell for some days.

NeedToKnow101 · 05/09/2020 22:50

I can't beat your story OP, but I did wank my cat off once, by mistake.

leolion1 · 05/09/2020 22:56

@NeedToKnow101 wins the thread

The3rdWatermelon · 05/09/2020 22:56

Unrolling a big round bale of straw in my dad’s cowshed. I slid my hand between the layers to peel them off (imagine a massive Swiss roll) so that I could get it small enough to push over and roll. All of a sudden my hand went into something slimy and wet and WARM. It was a dead rat that had been through the baler and been pancaked between the layers of straw. The layers are very tight, so anything wet inside them will heat up and ferment (can cause fires if wet stuff is baled before drying out). This rat was merrily stewing away in its own juices for months, nice and toasty warm. And I put my hand Right. In. It.

Worst of all was that I shouted to my dad and he gave me a fistful of straw to wipe my hand on and wouldn’t let me wash it until I finished bedding up the shed. “Just don’t put your fingers in your mouth!”

Mammatino · 05/09/2020 22:56

Many years ago I took delivery of a sofa bed for my mum, I’d been staying there and got a bit pissed the night before. I forgot my glasses when I went to answer the door... there was a squish and I just fucking knew... after about 15 minutes the delivery men managed to get the sofa bed upstairs, I signed for it. I saw the delivery driver Looking questioningly at me as I hadn’t moved for the full 15 minutes. I felt the need to explain that I had a crippling phobia of rodents and the second I moved I would have to acknowledge the half eaten mouse Stuck on my big toe, like a finger bob. I nearly blacked out trying to get the fucking thing off, hopping about the back garden in my mums pink dressing gown scraping my toe on rocks whilst gagging. If you’ve ever read that fairy story called the donkey skin it was like that. The cats had just left the head and a cape of fur. My toe looked like it was off to a fancy dress party as bat man. I’m going for a shower.

36degrees · 05/09/2020 22:58

Snogging my boyfriend when I was a teenager and one of his teeth fell out in my mouth. There was blood.

YummyJamDoughnut · 05/09/2020 23:08

Was sharing a bath with my brother and he shat in it is probably number 1. I tried to get out so fast I fell back in and swallowed some shitty water....
I was 5 at the time.

YummyJamDoughnut · 05/09/2020 23:09

@NeedToKnow101

I can't beat your story OP, but I did wank my cat off once, by mistake.
I have many questions. I think you need to share the story.
Divebar · 05/09/2020 23:13

Working as a jailer in a custody suite having to conduct 15 minute checks on a prisoner with a drugs psychosis. ( no hospital would have him). Every time I checked him the scene was worse - first he was naked, then he smeared his food over his body and cell, then he smeared his shit over his body and cell and then he was wanking looking at me. In 20 years of policing that was the only time I used the “female” card. I refused to check him again and made the male custody sergeant go and hose him off in the shower.

RiftGibbon · 05/09/2020 23:13

Now I come to think of it, lots...

  1. Traveling in Australia during a rainy spell. Lots of frogs were migrating to breeding ponds which were across several busy roads. I was wearing flip flops as was my travelling companion and we had to go back to our lodging to change as we were covered to the ankles in frog entails.
  2. When DC was very small, I was doing a post-feed winding session when suddenly child regurgitated milk all down my back.As I tried to transfer to my DH DC did a lovely big wee all down me.
  3. Trod barefoot on a slug.
4.Trod barefoot in cat sick.
  1. Cat was heaving so I picked her up to put her on a wipeable surface, at which point she had an attack of diahorreah which went all down my dressing gown (I had only just got up)
Divebar · 05/09/2020 23:15

And that was a cannabis psychosis - but it’s ok, cannabis is natural !!!!!! 😬

Divebar · 05/09/2020 23:23

I have a couple of gross dead body stories too but it may get a bit competitive with the other police officers.

QuestionableMouse · 05/09/2020 23:34

@The3rdWatermelon

Unrolling a big round bale of straw in my dad’s cowshed. I slid my hand between the layers to peel them off (imagine a massive Swiss roll) so that I could get it small enough to push over and roll. All of a sudden my hand went into something slimy and wet and WARM. It was a dead rat that had been through the baler and been pancaked between the layers of straw. The layers are very tight, so anything wet inside them will heat up and ferment (can cause fires if wet stuff is baled before drying out). This rat was merrily stewing away in its own juices for months, nice and toasty warm. And I put my hand Right. In. It.

Worst of all was that I shouted to my dad and he gave me a fistful of straw to wipe my hand on and wouldn’t let me wash it until I finished bedding up the shed. “Just don’t put your fingers in your mouth!”

I'm fucking traumatised from unrolling round bales. Found rats, rabbits and other small critters. It's like the world's worst version of pass the parcel. You never know what the next layer might be hiding.
FenellaVelour · 05/09/2020 23:35

Some of these are full on 🤢

I was having sex with my ex, missionary position, when a massive bogey dropped out of his nostril and fell into my nostril. I watched it fall and felt it go in.

I still retch now when I think about it.

DoesThisMakeSence · 05/09/2020 23:45

Ds at 18 months was terrified of the bath so he would only have one if his ds 6 years came in with him.
So they are in the bath and my dd picks something up and says whats this, as it dawned on her it was a poop ds had done she thew it down the bath.
It hit the taps and exploded covering the three of us in poop.
Ds only showered from then on as dd wouldnt get in with his again after that.
Dd now 11 still talks about it to this day with great dramatic flaire 😂😂

GabsAlot · 05/09/2020 23:45

wanked a cat?

FenellaVelour · 05/09/2020 23:48

A couple of years ago I was driving (lucky)home from work hot day window all the way down and a sodding seagull managed to fly over and do a massive wet poo, it all came in my window on my arm car seat and kind of splashed back onto my face and hair. I couldn't get home fast enough.

This exact thing happened to me. It stank of mackerel. I retched all the way home.

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