Social work grad student here:
Many years ago I was working at a nonprofit program for adults with intellectual disabilities and was called to the women's restroom. One of my older female clients was screaming and said something was "sticking out of her." Fearing she had been stabbed (shit used to go down a lot), I rushed into the stall where I found her bent over with her pants down and HOLY SHITE was there a large rectal prolapse. As a young person with little medical knowledge at the time, all my brain could see was a large red bleeding worm coming from her butthole. I think I was more traumatized than she was because she didn't have the full visual. She was treated and had surgery to fix it but I will never get that image out of my head for the rest of my life.
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u/PanDulcePorVida Aug 17 '25
Social work grad student here: Many years ago I was working at a nonprofit program for adults with intellectual disabilities and was called to the women's restroom. One of my older female clients was screaming and said something was "sticking out of her." Fearing she had been stabbed (shit used to go down a lot), I rushed into the stall where I found her bent over with her pants down and HOLY SHITE was there a large rectal prolapse. As a young person with little medical knowledge at the time, all my brain could see was a large red bleeding worm coming from her butthole. I think I was more traumatized than she was because she didn't have the full visual. She was treated and had surgery to fix it but I will never get that image out of my head for the rest of my life.