Trauma - A medical Textbook
I very good friend of mine from my A Levels left college to train as a nurse. During his three years of debauchery training he acquired several textbooks to accompany his studies, the content of one of them Trauma continues to bring me out in cold sweats to this very day.

Now part of being a student nurse is spending time in Accident and Emergency wards, where - just like in Thunderbirds - anything can happen. My friend used to come back from a shift and regularly fill me in on some of the scary sights he'd witnessed during a stint on A&E, most of which seemed to include foreign objects lodged in the unfortunate patients' anuses.

The one that's making me shiver just thinking about it though involved the poor, unfortunate chap who appeared in Trauma at various stages of recovery having been dragged from a burning building.

Now the poor chap had suffered extensive burns to his lower torso as evidenced by the first photograph, which shows the lower abdomen a very unhealthy charred colour with what resembled a severely overcooked sausage lurking twixt singed thighs. The sight of this was enough to have me clamping my legs closed in sympathy.

However it gets worse...

The second photograph shows the burned skin beginning to slowly debriding itself from the body. Small, angry looking patches of rawness seem to be appearing.

The third photograph shows the same guys a few weeks later, with no carbonized flesh on show but with what now resembles a butcher's shop window where his genitals should be. Having experienced minor chafing from badly adjusted gym shorts, my eyes were watering in sympathy.

The fourth illustration was the most horrific. By now the chap's genitals were well on the way to healing, the colour having become a tender pink, however the scarring from the burns left his todger rather mutilated and less than half it's original size if compared to picture #1.

This illustration was accompanied by the caption "Genital reconstruction may well be possible at this point..."

Whoever the poor guy was, my heart bleeds for him
(Bicycle Repairman "you're also a bit of a wanker", Wed 13 Aug 2008, 15:22, 5 replies)

Crikey!
*jibblies*

*gently pats (own) todger (repeatedly)*

*promises todger that this kind of thing will never happen to it*

*shudders*
( Pooflake braces for an onslaught..., Wed 13 Aug 2008, 15:40, closed)

*grins at Poof lake*
*grabs petrol*

*draws deeply on cigarette*
( Cawl, Wed 13 Aug 2008, 15:53, closed)

*Spots Kaol*

*Stops patting todger*

*Shouts 'look over there!' to Kaol*

*points*

*runs*
( Pooflake braces for an onslaught..., Wed 13 Aug 2008, 16:00, closed)

seen similar
And this story brings some of the worst ones to mind. Friend of mine is a senior nurse specialising in burns. She did a stint in the Gulf war (first time round) and showed me the scrapbook of photos she was planning to use in her lectures Apparently one of the treatments for large, deep burns is to score it in a diamond pattern (so it doesn't constrict when it shrinks). Her comment of "It looks just like pork crackling doesn't it?" did not make me feel better.
( SteamedCleaner, Wed 13 Aug 2008, 16:05, closed)

You're not going to put me off eating sausages!
I know your plan you vegetarian you!
( chickenlady b3ta's very own Elizabeth Taylor, Wed 13 Aug 2008, 16:32, closed)