Destined for urban legend status

[Antisocial_Worker]

This is a true story, to be filed in the "you can't make this shit up" drawer.

A woman needed to be seen a few weeks back because she had shoved part of a potato up her lady parts, and it had sprouted. At the time she was seen, the vine was halfway to her knee.

That is all.

[Hermione]

I got nothing.

[fireheart]

uhh.....

My only question, was it regular or sweet?

[Ophbalance]

My wife... spouted this. "Why does this potato taste like fish??" That is just... awesome. And meant in the Bill Engvall sense.

[Skarredmind]

uhh.....

My only question, was it regular or sweet?

My guess would be neither... not any more. Shudder.

[Seshat]

Why did she .. how did she .. LEAVE it there that long?

[Sandman]

If you left a cucumber in there would it pickle?

[dalesys]

If you left a cucumber in there would it pickle?

We need to squash this vine...

[Dytchdoctir]

This is not a call-out or a flame, but I first heard this story over twenty years ago when I was just starting my clinical rounds.

[Antisocial_Worker]

This is not a call-out or a flame, but I first heard this story over twenty years ago when I was just starting my clinical rounds.

I heard it last night from the nurse who saw it when the woman came in. She pointed out that she'd always heard it as an urban legend herself and never believed it... until she saw it.

[Flying Grype]

Yeah, it's already an urban legend! But maybe there's another urban legend, specifically that putting a potato up there is a good idea for some reason.

The urban legend usually involves the patient telling the doctor that she's got "the green vines in the virginny".

[Primer]

On the ignorance of some women--I once had a student, a woman in her forties, who asked me in all seriousness if a tampon could get "lost up there" and travel up into the abdomen. I was gladdened that she liked and trusted me enough to ask such a question, but at the same time I was appalled at her ignorance. And yes, I frankly explained to her the structural differences between a vagina, where nothing that big could get past the cervix, and a colon, where the intestines do just keep on going.

[Mishi]

The reason that I have heard of behind a potato (or part thereof) being inserted vaginally is to prop up a uterine prolapse, but I imagine that people use it for other reasons as well.

[Seshat]

On the ignorance of some women--

Mum has told me that when she was in the labour ward with me, her neighbour in the ward asked her where the baby was going to come out. She thought it might come out her mouth, and was scared....

(Mum got one of the ward nurses to have a quiet 'facts of life' chat with her neighbour. But of all the times to not know something....)

(This was in 1969.)

[Amina516]

Its a cheap pessary (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pessary). It happens with the Amish community I live around. The women birth a ton of kids ( no birth control) and their vaginal structure isn't what it once was. If they prefer to visit their herbal doctors instead if the hospital, it's what works.