So EMBARRASSED I'll have to change my name and not just on Mumsnet.

[Imfat]

Last week I was in hospital with pneumonia and pleurisy, came out on Thursday morning.
As it's a lovely day here, DH and I went for a short walk.
On the way back I somehow tripped and knocked myself out.
Came around in an ambulance on the way to hospital. DH went home to get the car to follow me.
The embarrassing part was I'd dirtied myself both ways.
Got to hospital and I was taken into a side cubicle so they could clean me up, the health care assistant was
only our DDS friend. I was crying and she was so kind and trying to calm me down.
Still don't know how I tripped but have also broken my arm, bashed my nose and scraped my face.
Still in hospital awaiting a scan on my head.

Please cheer me up with your embarrassing stories.

Wtf happened to Barbie’s head? Some men (I assume it was a man) are monsters. Poor Barbie!

@Imfat Accidentally posted this on a similar thread so I'm just going to copy/paste 😅 (my life is a series of similar embarrassments, I & any other half decent person are just concerned that you're okay now!!):

I once strolled breezily out of the washroom at the grocery store, wearing my cute new poofy skirt, only to have a kind samaritan rush up behind me after a minute to alert me that I had accidentally tucked the skirt into my tights in the back after pulling them back up in the toilet and was thereby flashing my backside to everyone in the store 🙈

I did the same in the Kingsgate Centre in Dunfermline - also when I was in my 30s. A woman ran up to me and told me...

My husband was with me and he was more embarrassed than I was.

You didn’t soil yourself for no reason or because you were inebriated! You suffered a horrible accident and fell which resulted in this happening.

The people that work in hospitals see this all the time and don’t attach the same stigma to these things like we do.

I hope you will be ok, and hopefully you will be fit and well come the new year.

I have psoriasis in my ears. It was having a flare up and I had a sort of liquid cortisone . Only supposed to put a bit on and to leave it to dry for as long as possible while avoiding it going down the canal to macerate etc. So I had a great idea of putting it on a cotton bud which I’d leave protruding from my ear. Great !! lotion was on the right patch doing its stuff, all fine for a few days until I got cocky and started getting ready for work while the bud was in ear. Stood in front of mirror brushing my hair and my hand slammed into the cotton bud, right down that very ear canal. I literally fell to the floor in pain. Emergency GP didn’t actually laugh but openly winced as did the emergency ORL dr that he sent me to. I somehow avoided actually perforating the ear drum but it was very close!!

I just x-posted my story of this same type of scenario 🤣 "business in the front, party in the back" eh?

Im a nurse and we will be more worried about your fall and the concussion. Bodily functions stir up no emotions whatsoever and we will just get you clean and sorted. Within 10 mins of finishing your clean we will be onto the next patient and still go on to have our lunch. Never worry about that sort of thing. Hope you recover soon
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You were in a time of need...no blame what so ever! She was a health care proffessional and should have side stepped you all together as you are known to her in a personal way.

Horrible experience for you OP but nothing to be embarrassed about, it could happen to anyone. Hope you feel better soon (or it not, that you you find a cheap one way ticket to Australia).

Hope you will feel better soon @Imfat 💐

A couple of years ago, I was just starting my new job. Keen to make a good impression - and it was mostly a male team, only one female colleague. Anyway, I came on my period unexpectedly, and when I stood up to go home, I realised I had bled through my knickers and trousers and onto my work chair. I was too mortified to say anything to anyone so I sat back down until all the men had left and then wheeled my chair over to the cleaner. Mortifying.

Another one for the pot. When I was at university, I got very, very drunk one night and decided I wanted to sleep with one of my coursemates. I had never had sex before but I was full of confidence. So I threw my clothes off, had him lie down, tried to... situate myself very clumsily. I was too drunk so I fell off, fell on the floor, and wet myself.

Absolutely not true. The HCA was on duty,there is no conflict of interest.
if pt had declined to be treated by HCA then they’d offer another staff member (but potentially wait longer til another staff member available)
How do you think it works in towns and smaller places with only one hospital., the likelihood is staff will know the pts

My Dad used to say that, I've never heard anyone else say it!

I really feel for you OP.

Hopefully my story will make you feel a bit better. I'd never suffered with mental health issues before but when I was pregnant my mental health fell off a cliff. I can't even begin to explain it, just a lot of anxiety after being told I wouldn't conceive naturally and it taking 4 years to get pregnant I think. Then we had an early private scan where they said there was no heartbeat, so was convinced I'd had a missed miscarriage. Had a scan at the early pregnancy unit a week later because I still wasn't bleeding and it turns out baby was absolutely fine. But for my entire pregnancy, I never really went back to normal after that.

At 18 weeks I ended up in A&E after being in a minor car accident to get checked over. They used a doppler (i think that's what it's called) to check baby's heartbeat and couldn't find it.

I ran out of A&E screaming and just sort of collapsed outside, was sitting on the floor rocking backwards and forwards. It sounds so bloody dramatic now it's mortifying, but I was just in a really really bad place.

A very kind paramedic who had just unloaded an ambulance came over and sat with me trying to calm me down. She was making small talk to distract me and asked where I work. When I told her she said "oh do you know so and so, that's my sister". Turns out I was her sister's boss.

I genuinely considered quitting my job because I was convinced she'd tell her. But I honestly don't think she ever did. I look back now and yes it's still mortifying but I also know none of it was my fault. The baby who's heartbeat they couldn't find is now a happy healthy 2 year old so everything I went through seems irrelevant now really.

Health care workers are professionals. She will have seen much much worse. Look after yourself OP and try not to dwell on it too much!

Interestingly I developed constipation and piles two weeks post twins forceps. Not a coincidence.

Ah you poor thing. She won’t care though!

My friend is a nurse and came to a party a couple of years ago. I introduced her to another friend and they seemed to know each other but other friend went beetroot and ran off! I asked nurse how they knew each other and she just said in passing.

Found embarrassed friend an hour later - finally got it out of her that 2 weeks previously she attended sexual health clinic as she had a tampon stuck. Nurse friend dealt with her and she was convinced nurse friend had told me.

So basically, I don’t think they care. Nurse friend has told me funny stories, never naming or
describing anyone in any detail but she never once mentioned about the other woman. So, you’re
fine.

Hope you recover soon Op, as my Nan used to say, you have been in the wars.

I'm known for being extremely accident prone.

Just before last new year DH had terrible back pain. Being the dutiful wife I drove him to the physio who got him semi mobile. As we got back to the car DH tripped up the kerb and fell over so I ran round to check he was ok as he's waiting for a hip replacement and I was worried he'd broke it. I managed to somehow trip up the same kerb and fly gracefully through the air, landing next to him with my right knee taking the full force. DH managed to get up himself thankfully while I had the indignity of being hauled to my feet by a group of people who'd emerged from the shops!

DH was fine, I'm waiting for an MRI as my GP thinks I've torn the cartilage in my knee!

Not me but my ds

A few years ago (just before covid) he had to be rushed into hospital because his appendix was about to burst

They operated on him but as he was coming round,the drugs made him go a bit 'funny' and he offered to shag the nurse who was looking after him

She kept saying 'no' but he kept on about how much he wanted 'to fuck her brains out'

The nurse was the daughter of a friend of his nan (my mother) and had known him since he was a baby (she'd known me since I was a baby!)

He still cant look her in the eye but shes never mentioned it

My lovely mil has just had an operation and as she was coming round,she became convinced the nurse was trying to kill her and she had to fight for her life (shes the most mild mannered woman I've ever met,who's never fought anyone)

The nurse is her sisters best friend and colleague

They've had a good laugh about it apparently

This is hilarious 🤣

I'm really sorry but that made me genuinely laugh (the pals reaction, not your nasty fall). Teenager boys have zero filter sometimes!

@Achewyhamster 😂 Does your DS have any recollection of his drug induced ramblings?

Oh no- you poor thing! I only had a tiny bit of garlic in there and even that was agony- it felt like my inner ear was being stabbed with a knife. I cant imagine how painful this must be 😭

That is horrific. I hope he was punished for that?

Sorry OP, that sounds a bit embarrassing but nothing the staff won't have seen before or even remembered.

@TangoWhiskeyAlphaTango2 I am so angry on your behalf - the little sh*t.