How does something like this happen?
Drunk commies reborn
13-05-2005, 16:01
An undercover police officer who had been hospitalized recieved an injection of "cosmetic glitter" instead of Demerol. He's had to be hospitalized a dozen times since the incident because of health problems caused by the glitter. How does one mix up a vial of demerol with a container of glitter? I have a feeling that this had to be intentional. Nobody is that incompetant.
www.smh.com.au/news/Unusual-Tales/All-that-glitters/2005/05/11/1115585031396.html?oneclick-true
All I have to say is...
What the fuck?
Jeruselem
13-05-2005, 16:07
What does a hospital do with vial of glitter? Spinkle it on the patients to make them feel better? If it was in the Children's area since it would be useful, but this is plain incompetant to mix it up with some drug.
What does a hospital do with vial of glitter? Spinkle it on the patients to make them feel better? If it was in the Children's area since it would be useful, but this is plain incompetant to mix it up with some drug.How did they even have glitter in the hospital? What's it for? My predecessor as Supreme Ruler of the Universe used it to pick off all his enemies. :D
~Czardas, Supreme Ruler of the Universe
Jeruselem
13-05-2005, 16:40
How did they even have glitter in the hospital? What's it for? My predecessor as Supreme Ruler of the Universe used it to pick off all his enemies. :D
~Czardas, Supreme Ruler of the Universe
You mean Gary Glitter? :)
Eynonistan
13-05-2005, 16:41
You mean Gary Glitter? :)
I don't think there was any suggestion that it was a suppository :-/
Burgman-Allen
13-05-2005, 16:45
For once, I'm glad he's decided to sue. That is completely incompetant...how do you mistake glitter for pain killer?! Honestly, what is in that glitter that it has been giving him so many problems after the fact? Those things are supposed to be non-toxic.
Pure Metal
13-05-2005, 16:48
All I have to say is...
What the fuck?
thats precisely what i was gonna say!
WTF? :eek: :confused:
Sonho Real
13-05-2005, 16:48
[QUOTE=Burgman-Allen]For once, I'm glad he's decided to sue. That is completely incompetant...how do you mistake glitter for pain killer?!QUOTE]
Lol, yes, especially green and red glitter. You'd think the christmas tree sparkles would've given the nurses a hint. :p
You mean Gary Glitter? :)Well, all kinds are poisonous, depending on whether you contain the dominant personality "Good" or "Evil". My dominant is Evil, so it can't harm me. But not so with my predecessor's enemies... ;)
~Czardas, Supreme Ruler of the Universe
Drunk commies reborn
13-05-2005, 16:50
For once, I'm glad he's decided to sue. That is completely incompetant...how do you mistake glitter for pain killer?! Honestly, what is in that glitter that it has been giving him so many problems after the fact? Those things are supposed to be non-toxic.
Yes, but it's not sterile, and it's not good to have small, non-soluable particles drifting through your bloodstream. They can cause stroke, blood clots in the lung, or heart attack.
The Mindset
13-05-2005, 16:51
For once, I'm glad he's decided to sue. That is completely incompetant...how do you mistake glitter for pain killer?! Honestly, what is in that glitter that it has been giving him so many problems after the fact? Those things are supposed to be non-toxic.
Probably the glitter itself. Little sharp blobs of sparkly plastic whizzing around your body, I can only image what damage they'd do over time. Ever had a bit of glitter in your eye, for example?
Dempublicents1
13-05-2005, 16:55
Just to be pedantic, for everyone talking about bloodstream - it sounds like he was getting an intramuscular injection, not an IV injection. As such, the glitter particles would not have gotten into the bloodstream (being much too large to pass through the cells).
That said, I have no idea how giltter would get mixed up that way. Maybe someone was using a syringe to make Christmas cards?
thats precisely what i was gonna say!
WTF? :eek: :confused:
Oh no... It begins...
Pure Metal
13-05-2005, 16:58
Oh no... It begins...
dude! what does mine say?
sweet! what does mine say?
dude! what does mine say? :mad:
SWEET! .......
:p
Carnivorous Lickers
13-05-2005, 17:02
This sounds like the most reprehensible F-up, or deliberate.
There should be an in depth investigation. however it turns out, the one administering the injection should be fired and prosecuted,whatever the outcome.
Jeruselem
13-05-2005, 17:02
Good thing, he was not injected with some radioactive isotopes used in chemotherapy by accident. That would have been the end of him.
Naturality
14-05-2005, 08:16
An undercover police officer who had been hospitalized recieved an injection of "cosmetic glitter" instead of Demerol. He's had to be hospitalized a dozen times since the incident because of health problems caused by the glitter. How does one mix up a vial of demerol with a container of glitter? I have a feeling that this had to be intentional. Nobody is that incompetant.
www.smh.com.au/news/Unusual-Tales/All-that-glitters/2005/05/11/1115585031396.html?oneclick-true
Or they were high.
Incenjucarania
14-05-2005, 08:26
Hmnn...
...undercover cop...
...troubling, potentially lethal, but too weird to sound like an attempted attack...
*coughs*
Adrian Barbeau-Bot
14-05-2005, 08:42
ha, he was injected with glitter... my dumb ass is googling "cosmic glitter" trying to find out if its some crazy new drug i havent heard about (before i read the article, of course)... nope. he was actually given a shot of glitter.
which brings me to my question... why in the fuck is there a syringe of glitter just... lying around in a hospital? and how does someone say "hm... this sparkling glittery stuff must be the painkiller he needs."
my head hurts.