Category: LOL Moments

One day I came to work and there was a turd on the floor. Nobody knew where it came from. After a bit of investigating, we finally found out what happened. We had an H. pylori stool antigen test, and the preferred source was fresh frozen stool. Somehow, we had an escapee and we finally… Continue reading Literal Loose Stool

Years ago when I worked at a trauma center during the night shift, I had to go to ER and draw some blood on a lady. When I was done, she asked me where her boyfriend was. I didn’t know so as I was leaving trying to get back to the lab, there was this… Continue reading Skateboard Dare

My mom has a former nurse friend who worked in the ER. A man came in who had a vegetable stuck 'up there'.  After it was removed and he left, the nurses had to check it out. It was a potato that had been CARVED into a phallus! You cannot make this stuff up! Submitted… Continue reading Stuck Up Vegetable

A man came into the emergency room and had a cucumber stuck up his you know what! His story was that he went out to his garden in the middle of the night to get a cucumber. He was naked and it was muddy. He slipped and fell, and the cucumber went right up his… Continue reading The Peeled Cucumber

I went to the nursing home located just a short walk from the hospital I work in. The weather was great so I thought it would be a great way to enjoy a little break from the monotony while getting a little bit of sunshine! The draw is for two patients. One is a new… Continue reading Quick Change

I worked as a processor in our Microbiology department. One time I was asked if I would like to volunteer for the Children's Health Fair. To this I delightfully agreed! It was a nice Saturday afternoon. I had several things set up. Swabs, agar plates, O&P kits, blood culture sets, pretty much anything involved in… Continue reading Stool Sample at the Children’s Health Fair

When I was at the blood bank, we had to do a stint in the donor clinics. One day a very "manly" gent came up to front desk and was visibly distraught as he couldn't get past the initial hemoglobin screening to donate. He was anemic. He lamented, "I just don't understand this, how can… Continue reading No Way He’s Anemic

One Sunday morning my Coulter S was not feeling well. I've tried everything I can, including some very negative words. No luck. Called service - on his way. Walked over and kicked the generator out of frustration. Started right up! When service got there, he was amazed and asked how I fixed it. When I… Continue reading Kickstarting It

I was once drawing blood on a patient when a strung out intern came up and started talking to the patient in the next bed in the room. He said, "Mr. John Doe?" "I am." said the patient. The doctor said, "When you came in through the ER last night, you said you have been… Continue reading Fresh Stab Wounds

You know that absorbent pad that comes inside biohazard specimen bags? We know they're meant to absorb spilled specimens in the bag. Guess this patient had a different idea. One day a patient dropped off his stool specimen for a fecal lactoferrin. Instead of finding a stool specimen inside the cup inside the biohazard bag,… Continue reading Just A Wipe Away