TMI from the OB/GYN office

Here is one for the books folks - hold onto your lunches!

Here is a little background: I am training to post daily receipts and visits. The lady who is training me has a cheat sheet that is pretty hard to read - there are notes everywhere!

So - I am on my own and trying to post today. I come up with one that I need to look for info on her cheat sheet for. I come across something that states simply "Lost Tampon" and gives me the diagnosis code to bill for that.
Now - I am thinking to myself: Self - what the hell - how do you loose that?

Curiosity gets the best of me - so I ask one of the nurses standing up front waiting for her next patient and I get my answer.
I got a story about a patient who came in here for "pelvic pain". While doing the pelvic exam - the doctor finds a tampon deep inside the woman that has been there for months (yes - I said months)!!! It was rotten and - well - I won't go into more details than that. I get another story about another doctor doing a procedure on a woman that isn't working - upond researching why - yup, you guessed it --- a tampon was way up there again.

BTW - it happens more than you would think (which really scares the hell out of me). Which leads me to one question:

HOW THE HELL DO YOU FORGET ONE OF THOSE?

I don't know about you - but if I put anything IN my body - I sure as hell remember to take it out!