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Post by ptamom on Aug 6, 2014 6:34:27 GMT
I have a coworker who can't even talking about stuff like dental work or surgery without getting queasy. Does talk squick you out, or do you need to see something IRL to feel squeamish? I don't like runny egg whites, but can deal with most other things. Talk doesn't squick me out, I grew up listening to my father (a doctor) telling my mother ( a SAHM who had a nursing degree) about the liver biopsy he'd performed that day, at the dinner table, while eating spaghetti. I got over talk early on. The smell of fish/seafood really makes me nauseous. I have to be really desperate for some obscure ingredient to enter the 99 Ranch market (Asian market), because of the smell. They have large tanks of stinky fish, and the smell permeates the entire store. I mouth breathe the entire time I'm there. The only other thing I'm sensitive to is vomit. My daughter recently had a bunch of friends over, they all hung out in the backyard where it was hot, there were chips and dips, lots of other junk. 2AM, she threw up. In the hallway, trying to make it to the bathroom. I cleaned up as well as I could in the middle of the night, planning to tackle it with my little carpet cleaner in the morning. The smell wafted everywhere. I couldn't sleep, I was so nauseous. And she slept late, and I didn't want to wake her. But by one PM, when the whole house smelled like the worst puke ever, and the outside temp topped 100 degrees, I got out the noisy machine and scrubbed that carpet within an inch of its fibers. But I still felt nauseous for about 5 days after. The smell was locked in my head. I just had to walk by her room, and I'd get nauseated. It's on and off now. I swear, even though I spent a half hour with the carpet cleaner, and a few minutes with windex cleaning the door she tagged, sometimes I can still smell a hint, and then I get nauseated all over again.
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Post by gar on Aug 6, 2014 9:28:04 GMT
People being sick (vomiting) I will go to great lengths to avoid being nearby, except my DD when they were small.
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Post by heartcat on Aug 6, 2014 9:41:51 GMT
I am squeamish when it comes to touching dead animals. If a bird hits the front window, or the dog gets a rabbit or squirrel, or a cat leaves a mouse in our yard, or if a small pet dies, I cannot deal with the remains. I cannot stand the thought of their poor little limp bodies, warm or cold, or stiffened from rigor. It is also emotionally upsetting for me, and the thought of picking them up (even with gloves) freaks me out. That is a job for dh.
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Post by formerpea on Aug 6, 2014 10:18:12 GMT
Well now - this thread after reading all the responses!
I can go to the dentist (with some arm pulling), but listening to people talk about their experiences there can literally make me faint. Why do people think other people want to hear their chair stories?
Same thing with even the thought of eye surgeries; I took my dad for cataract surgery once, I was cringing the entire time in the waiting room just thinking about it! But to make things worse, his retina detached during the surgery; when the surgeon came out to tell me, I swear I thought I was going to faint! I had to drive him to another surgeon to have it fixed and even the ride, with him sitting next to me with bandages on his eyes was torture. His after care (drops 3x aday, new bandages, etc.) was the hardest thing I had to do.
Oh & mice - hate mice. I can bait a hook, take a fish off a hook (I am the go to person for all of that in the family), kill spider, bugs, pick up earthworms, handle poop & vomit accidents - but a little tiny mouse? SHUDDER!
ETA: sweat like a whore in church - best line I ever heard!
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Post by theboydbunch on Aug 6, 2014 11:49:33 GMT
Snakes..big bugs...mice...and water chestnuts
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Post by lbp on Aug 6, 2014 12:14:43 GMT
Put me on the vomit train too. I start gagging if I see someone throwing up on TV.
Frosted glass skeeves me out! I can't stand to touch frosted glass, I get chill bumps and feel like I will throw up.
I also get weirded out by that saliva/foamy stuff that collects at the corners of some peoples mouth, usually elderly people, but not always. I find I keep looking at that instead of looking them in the eye.
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Post by khaleesi on Aug 6, 2014 12:35:36 GMT
Eyeballs. Eye surgery, people poking their eyes, having an eye poked out, any kind of eye trauma. i can handle touching eyes for contact lenses (I wear them) and eye exams and eye drops are ok but anything else eye related freaks me out. I would like to explore LASIK but that involves eyes so I stick with,t contacts and glasses. I know it's crazy. Nothing else medical freaks me out, I'm actually fascinated by most things. ^^^ This - I'm so glad I'm not the only one No, I thought I was the only one because everyone looks at me like I am crazy. I feel much better now
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Post by sharlag on Aug 6, 2014 13:08:03 GMT
I also get weirded out by that saliva/foamy stuff that collects at the corners of some peoples mouth, usually elderly people, but not always. I find I keep looking at that instead of looking them in the eye. What is *WITH* this? ! I had a childhood friend who this would happen to. She was 8-10 years old when I remember the foam or whatever in the corners of her mouth. Strange phenomenon.
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Post by whipea on Aug 6, 2014 13:18:01 GMT
Spin-off of snotty babies, mine is baby drool. You know, the kind that hangs off their lips or chins, makes me gag. The worst is when there are bits of milk mixed in, the clear drool with cream colored flecks or swirls, arghhhhh!
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Post by Deleted on Aug 6, 2014 13:19:30 GMT
The smell of bologna. Yuck
Anything to do with touching my eyes.
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Post by bdawnb on Aug 6, 2014 13:33:23 GMT
Cutting baby toenails. My oldest jerked once when I was cutting her toenails and I cut her skin just enough to make her bleed. Of course she cried. I did too. And ever after I get sick to my stomach just thinking about it and my husband became the "go to" buy for trimming the kids' nails from then on. Nightmares.  I did the same thing when my daughter was an infant and my stomach still flips when I think about it.
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Post by bdawnb on Aug 6, 2014 13:39:33 GMT
Yes!! Dolls always scared me, because if Raggedy Ann could come alive at night, what was stoppmg mine? I'm still not sure I trust them. LOL
I cannot handle vomit and of course I had a child who couldn't keep anything down the first year of her life. Or snot. *gag*. I'll change dirty diapers all day but some one else needs to wipe that nose!!
ETA:: so I don't hVe another post: Droolling dogs. I cannot be anywhere around them. Makes me want to throw up which of course, I have already covered.
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Post by snappinsami on Aug 6, 2014 13:40:09 GMT
Loose teeth. I'm *SO* glad DD is past that stage. And ants in the house. We had an ant infestation four years ago in our old house. I left to take DD to school in the morning and everything was fine. Got back 30 minutes later, and our kitchen was crawling with them. It took two weeks and two different exterminators coming out to get rid of them. By then they'd moved out of the bedroom and at one point I woke up with them on my arm in bed. I had nightmares about them for a long time, and even now, when I find one in the house (hey, it happens, right?), I start searching for more. 
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Post by Deleted on Aug 6, 2014 13:43:48 GMT
Vomit doesn't bother me at all. I help my family throw up LOL. I used to get sick at least once a week so I got used to it.
The IUD thread squicks me out. I know it's something I have to think about but it scares me to death. (I have given birth vaginally too).
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Post by sharlag on Aug 6, 2014 13:47:06 GMT
The IUD thread squicks me out. I know it's something I have to think about but it scares me to death. (I have given birth vaginally too). Do you mean the discussion thread here on 2peas? Or the actual physical string that hangs down from the cervix?
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Post by Deleted on Aug 6, 2014 13:52:58 GMT
The giant cockroaches that like to run in my office and drop from the ceilings. shudder
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Post by Deleted on Aug 6, 2014 13:54:02 GMT
I am squeamish about the thought of something dangling down from my cervix. The thread scared the heck out of me but the thought of it squicks me out.
WTF? Nothing grosses me out. I don't know what about this is making me feeling scared or gross. It might be my only option!
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Post by ~Susan~ on Aug 6, 2014 13:55:03 GMT
Eye surgery, cleaning up vomit (my DH can do it without batting an eye) and DENTURES!!! I'm getting queasy just typing it out....
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Post by Madi & Me on Aug 6, 2014 14:03:15 GMT
Sputum.  I've been a nursing assistant for eight years and I start nursing school soon. One would think I would have developed a tolerance for it by now but nope... *gag* C. diff comes in at a close second.  In the lab, I can handle all the blood, urine, semen, regular stool you can give me, but sputum? Just, no, and C. diff poop *shudder* There's also a fecal fat test where people have to collect their poop for 72 hours in what is basically a paint can and the specimen for that is also truely gag worthy. I think you take the cake! Fecal fat test?! Oooh my...oh...my.
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Post by mimima on Aug 6, 2014 14:09:31 GMT
Touching your eye. The very idea of contacts makes me queasy.
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Post by jmurray on Aug 6, 2014 15:29:31 GMT
That honeycomb skin on the end of a chicken leg. eeewww! Me too! As well as roaches, big spiders (the hairy kind), veins (don't ask) and anything eyeball related. Oddly enough I'm fine with rats, mice and anything else with four legs. Can also handle seeing blood, vomit or anything else that could come out of a human. Well except for pus. I can't handle that at all. Ok just typing this out has made me feel a bit sick.
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Post by Dalai Mama on Aug 6, 2014 15:32:11 GMT
Narly old toenails. There used to be a show on TLC, when it actually was The Learning Channel, that broadcast operations from beginning to end. I loved it!
I used to tease DH because he couldn't watch it. He laughed his ass off when I couldn't bring myself to watch the bunion surgery because the person had these long discoloured toenails <shudder>
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Post by coaliesquirrel on Aug 6, 2014 15:35:48 GMT
Eyes. I can take talk about most any other kind of surgery or grossness, but I cannot DEAL with even TALK of having stuff done to anyone's eyes.
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Post by JoP on Aug 6, 2014 15:39:08 GMT
^^^ This - I'm so glad I'm not the only one No, I thought I was the only one because everyone looks at me like I am crazy. I feel much better now Me too :-)
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Post by oldcrow on Aug 6, 2014 15:50:30 GMT
Hork, spit, snot, drool. I can handle poop, pee, puke and pus. But one drop of the other stuff and I can't get to the taps quick enough.  I work in health care so I face it all everyday. Oh, and the smell of gangrenous flesh is hard for me to handle. It gets in my nose and takes forever to go away.
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Post by Deleted on Aug 6, 2014 15:53:08 GMT
Hork, spit, snot, drool. I can handle poop, pee, puke and pus. But one drop of the other stuff and I can't get to the taps quick enough.  I work in health care so I face it all everyday. Oh, and the smell of gangrenous flesh is hard for me to handle. It gets in my nose and takes forever to go away. Yeah gangrenous flesh would be hard for me to take too. I can't even imagine how gross it is.
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Post by alibama on Aug 6, 2014 15:55:50 GMT
vomit.. real or fake. I can feel perfectly fine and someone in a movie retch... I'm retching up toe nails too. retching up toe nails I like this one
Mine is feet yuck yuck yuck my husbands feet are gross, he knows better then to even get close to me with them. Running around barefoot forget it put socks on those things.
Babies feet are okay but that is it. The rest is 
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Post by MommyofTriplets on Aug 6, 2014 16:09:51 GMT
I'm glad I'm not the only one skeeved out by eye stuff.
I also don't do vomit or raw chicken. Lucky, in eleven years, my three kids have only thrown up a handful of times and DH has always been around.
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Post by sharlag on Aug 6, 2014 16:16:03 GMT
I'm lucky to have never smelled gangrenous flesh.
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Post by penny on Aug 6, 2014 19:03:49 GMT
I have a couple of the usual - vomit being the big one... I heard this phrase once and it sums it up: "sympathetic puker"... Someone else vomiting is bad... Just thinking that I may vomit is enough to bring on cold sweats and tears... I'm staunchly anti-vomit...
My weird one is watching my mom out on earrings... She has pierced ears, nothing wonky about them, but watching her put in an earring flips me right out... She asked me to help her put on a pair of hoops one time and it was all I could do to stay in the room... No problem with my own ears... But hers - oh heck no...
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