Hide And Seek
I was working OB as an off-service resident. I went in to examine the patient who was in labor but had just arrived. She was morbidly obese and had an extremely large fat fold that I had to lift up to check for cervical dilatation.
Upon lifting the fold there was this horrendous smell and a large quantity of black material. It didn’t really look like necrotic tissue to me so I grabbed a bottle of saline and started wiping away at the area.
The patient suddenly looked down and screamed out to her husband to come over because, “He [referring to me] found it.” Turns out they played a game at home where they would hide chocolate ho-ho’s in the fat folds on their body.
This one just happened to go missing for three days prior to coming to the hospital in labor. Story credit: Reddit / ldnk