Have you ever witnessed anything so terrible that you wished you could unsee it?

A guy came in to our hospital that had skin cancer on his shoulder/neck area for 20 years and had never gone to a doctor. I swear it looked like a dinosaur had taken a bite out of him. It was all the way to the bone. I don’t know how he took showers, wore clothes or even moved his arm.

Yikes! @chyna.
Exactly the kind of gruesome image I met.
What made him finally come to the Dr.?

It was bleeding and he couldn’t get it to stop.

Oh, gross. Did he live?

When I worked at the Emergency Veterinarian Hospital , I saw LOTS of terrible things.

Mostly traumas like hit by car, boat propeller, gunshot wounds , big dog vs little dog etc.

I’ve seen a couple puppies that had ran under lawn mowers too.

But once I was in a Emergency Room (for people ) in the trauma ward, and these EMS guys brought in like four teenage girl’s lifeless bodies. They weren’t even on stretchers. It was close to an interstate, so I assume they all died in a car wreck. I didn’t see any blood,or anything. I was wearing scrubs, because I came from the Animal ER, so I think they thought I worked there. They just piled them all in a side room.

I was there because my mother was badly injured, but I’ll never forget the sight, or the sounds of their loved ones screaming as they were told the news upon arrival.

Oh, and, there used to be a thing on utube called “the worst cliff diving accident. ”
That poor kid….
Wish I NEVER watched it.

And I would be remiss if I didn’t mention “2 girls n 1 cup.”

What a world…..

@ibstubro There wasn’t anything that could be done for him. It was so huge of a hole, (again think of a dinosaur bite) it couldn’t even be closed. No, he didn’t live and he was only in his 40’s.

^Yeah. Cancer is nasty.

We had a dog come in once with a tumor about the size of a soccer ball hanging of it’s rear leg. The owner brought it in because it had ruptured. The sight,and smell were unequivocal. I did take some pleasure watching some of my Coworkers retch though. It was funny because I have a very poor sense of smell. An asset in that field.

Puppy under a lawn mower is not a good image, @MrGrimm888, but 4 lifeless teenaged girls really tears it. Did the dog owner give any reason for waiting so long?

Probably better he died, @chyna.

When I was just a kid I saw an elephant on TV that had the lower part of one of its front legs missing due to an attack by poachers. It was in a pitiful state as it couldn’t walk and it shocked me so much I have never forgotten it.

@ibstubro . The owner was very strange. She was aware of the growth for many years.

But she was…........odd….

Only when it ruptured did she seek out help.

An FNA (Fine Needle Aspiration) , and cytology, can identify that the growth be determined “cancerous.”

She could have gone to her rVDM /regular vet, but didn’t. Or until it popped like a water Baloon in her house. Then she did something.
The sad thing is that she was actually pretty rich. So she could have possibly prevented it, if she did things differently.
Biopsies were recommended, prior to the mastation by other vets.

When I was about nine years old, I was with my dad while he was running an errand, he had me wait in the car while he ran into a store. I remember hearing a loud noise that scared me, then saw a lady with a stroller crossing the street then seeing both the lady and the stroller getting hit by a car. It was all in slow motion, the stroller flew, and the child in it fell out head first onto the street, and the woman was a mangled mess. My dad came out to the car with me screaming. To this day, the image has replayed itself in my mind multiple times, and yet I do not know what happened to the lady and the child.

^GD…..

Not yet, but if Trump wins, I guess I will.

2016 … so far.

Works of the Rule 34. Similarly, yaoi fanart. The baby from the movie Eraserhead. Blue Waffle (a disease. Don’t Google it). Several images on Wikipedia articles for some diseases.

A certain screamer. I was a small kid when I saw it. A white car was passing through the road. It was in some woods or something. After a while, the car drives by, and the screen becomes an image of leaves and branches. Out of the blue, a zombie-like creature jumps out, with an extremely loud scream. I was traumatized for days.

On another occasion, I was dancing to the music on a TV show aired at the time. Suddenly a commercial came. It was only a few seconds short: a black screen with a giant yellow question mark, and someone saying “A deer runs across the field, carrying a parrot”. I would scream and run whenever that came up on the TV. Later I found out it is a song.

There was also one occasion, when I was watching a telenovela. A girl had a dream of giving birth to a child. It turns out it was a devil child. A horrifying baby, with giant horns, and black, drawn eyes (those single circle eyes you can see on old cartoons). It was aired in the middle of the day.

I still vividly remember all of this.

I’m not sure you should loose that image, @flutherother. But it’s your brain! :-)

So, she was nuts, @MrGrimm888?

I’m sorry, @Escha. What else can I say?

Agreed, @Pandora.

I got the Eraserhead baby reference, @Sneki95.

When I hunted down “Two Girls, one cup” online after it was referenced on Family Guy years, and years ago (why they would do so on a cartoon they know children watch is beyond me but no real surprise).

The worst sight I have ever seen is a picture of a child with Harlequin-type ichthyosis. I have never seen it in real life, but I am horrified by it.

One more thing that I recommend not Googling is the cover for the album “Dawn of the Black Hearts” by the band Mayhem. It depicts one of their past members, know as Dead.
Dead committed suicide by shooting himself in the head. His bandmate made pictures of it and an image of his blown up head ended up being an album cover.

That is actually only one of the weird things about that band.

@Hypocrisy_Central I agree with you. Family Guy, while being animated, is definitely not for children,

My niece miscarried when she was about 5 or 6 months pregnant, and posted a photo of it on Facebook. Horrifying.

@ibstubro . With all due respect to owners, you run across a lot of crazy people in the veterinary field.

Some of the best people in the world, scattered with super crazy people.

I once managed a small crew of ironworkers on a construction site, and got to be friendly with them. One night shift while on a lunch break that I shared with them, the foreman opened up to me that he had been a state trooper in Oregon (the site was in Oregon, after all) and had a photo – if I wanted to see it – of a suicide that he had been the responding cop on. I figured it was kind of a dare, “Let’s see how much sand the kid has,” or something. So I agreed, and he showed it to me.

It was a fuzzy and out of focus black-and-white photo (remember that I saw this in 1979 for no more than a minute or so) which I can recall to this day. The body of a young man clothed in jeans and a plaid shirt, sitting on a bed and leaning against a wall. But he had no head above his lower jaw. He had blown off the top of his head with a shotgun in his mouth. I’m only thankful that the wall he had been leaning against was already a dark color, so the spray of blood, brain and bone fragments stuck there was not so readily visible in the poor quality photo. But I do recall the casual attitude of the body on the bed … and the fact of no head.

That photo gave me nightmares for years afterward, but I guess I’m mostly over it now. Still, I wonder if that’s part of the reason why I keep my bed in the middle of the room…

When we were kids, we did crazy things sometimes, and sometimes just stupid.

A friend of mine one summer had been riding the handlebars of his brother’s bike. Hey, it was summer in New England, so that would explain why he was barefoot. But I never understood how he managed to stick his right foot into the spokes of the front wheel while they were underway. The injury nearly ripped off his big toe.

the 2016 presidential election.

^ Why? If you were for the Party of Twiddle Dee, they can still pull a rabbit from a hat, if you were for the Party of Twiddle Dumb it has to be because you will be stuck with a choice less than great, but they can still snatch defeat from the jaws of victory, the night is not over. :)

I’m watching it now.

^^ Amen

Well, I guess I can add that to something I wish I never saw. Still hoping somehow there is a way to impeach him.

Photos of animal abuse, dogs getting beaten alive for the dog meat trade, stuff like that is upsetting and hard to get out of my mind.

Waking up at 4:00 a.m. the morning after Election Day to see the New York Times headlines saying Trump is the new President of the United States is so shocking, so unbelievable. Going to FB and seeing the majority of my friends saying they’re shocked and disgusted and seeing others (as expected) saying they’re happy, thrilled, and seeing their photos of Trump with the Mr President banner, all something I’m wishing I’m not seeing and hoped I’d not ever see.

NY Times headline: Trump Triumphs

Plenty of stuff over the years, luckily I have a strong resolve and nothing haunts me.
I will say though that I am actually nauseous this morning with the Trump victory, I am surprised because I am usually not attached to politics at all but trumps win makes-me-physically-sick!

I have so much crazy shit going on in my life that the Trump victory is just part of the Dali-esque landscape. 10 years of pause are now on Forward Play and I’m rolling with it. My little corner of the world is so absorbing at the moment that Trump doesn’t daunt me.

I wish the current Supreme Court justices long life and health. That aspect makes me want to tear. That the future of our judicial system could be in the hands of rabid conservatives.
I no longer believe Senate confirmation is a plan. They need to appoint a committee of 3 Democrats and 3 Republicans that are required to reach a consensus within 30 days or lose voting privileges and be replaced by 6 new members.
__Off the cuff.__

I am sorry I asked this question.
I’ve gotten a number of seriously sick mental images, and I hate that I’ve asked you all to re-live your bad experiences. I hope you’ve healed enough to not re-ignite the nightmare.

I tend to pre-sage (intuit) things, so maybe I was just preparing everyone for the Trump Presidency?

Do you really want people to share these images with you. I am not reading the above, I have enough images inside my head.

@scotslass Well then, why did you even bother to click on this Q. if you don’t want to read the answers?
Not being bitchy, just sayin’, kinda contradictory.

^Agreed. Contribute or move on. I hate getting attacked for a question. If it’s SO offensive, stick to the dating questions from 14 year olds.

If you HAD read the thread,you would have already seen the OP express regret in bringing up bad images.

Plus, none of us HAD to contribute either.

Your response infers that the OP’s motives were sadistic in nature.

Some get a benefit from sharing such things. It is a way of venting. It’s good for your mental health.

@ibstubro It’s okay, birdie, no need to apologise. Like Grimm said above, sharing past experiences is good for health.

There is no need to say sorry or feel bad. We each have learned from these experiences, and have overcome the trauma that came with it. With that being said, it is still perfectly appropriate to be shocked. For those of us who are comfortable with sharing the events means that we want to share and let others know. So please don’t feel bad.

Okay. If you kids are cool with it, I am.
I’ll lose the images relatively quickly. But I didn’t want anyone to start having nightmares again because of the Q.