I dunno whether to mark this NSFW or not but do your worst.

  • Erk@cdda.social
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    1 year ago

    Huh, I see a lot of horrifying diabetic foot wounds, and I’ve honestly been surprised by how relatively odourless they are compared to more acute abscessing wounds.

    My set point might just be off. My patient population is, uh, pungent at the best of times… Most of them are homeless or close to, and hygeine is just not something they can prioritize.

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      1 year ago

      I agree, the diabetic foot ulcers are fairly tame until wet necrosis sets in.

      Cancer wounds are worse in my experience. The little old ladies who don’t go to the doctor until their breast looks like burnt bloody cauliflower and have been bandaging with toilet tissue or old tea towels for ages so you have to fish around in old macerated tissue to get all the threads and clumps out.

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        1 year ago

        Yeah I’ll second that one. A fungating tumour almost made me throw up once, I don’t normally react to smells at all