Phobias (caution for all arachnaphobics!)

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Vicky RVN — Sat, 21 Mar 2009 12:37:51 GMT

We had a guinea pig abscess yesterday...was like a rabbit one, VERY much like cottage cheese! There was me and another nurse working, one of us was to go on lunch while the other did the abscess...so i sent the other nurse off so i could do the abscess, i couldn't miss out on it could i?! I then went and ate my lunch of a cheese salad sandwich after...not cream cheese though!!!

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Gem Sprague — Sat, 21 Mar 2009 12:30:31 GMT

lol im not sure which i hate worst!!

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Kerry Spain — Sat, 21 Mar 2009 11:57:07 GMT

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EKKK they look like the bigger version of my spiderflys!!! They do look like a tic dont they! Can they fly?? I hate the little buggers, they are the only things that freak me out!!!

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Yes they do have wings but are quite slothful flyers

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Louise B — Sat, 21 Mar 2009 11:08:26 GMT

Hamsters terrify me and unfortunately it does impact on my ability to do my job. My last encounter with a hamster was only the other week and I needed a towel (would have used a vetbed if had been available!) to ensure I didn't come into contact with it. Unfortunately it wriggled free and dropped down the side of the table and could have been badly injured (it wasn't but could have been). I tried to grab it but, to be honest, I was shaking like a leaf at the thought of handling it so I don't think I was as quick as I might have been.

I never used to be like this and kept them as a kid. I developed this irrational fear after a long stint locumming for Companion Care back in 2000. We had to health check every hamster that was sold and they used to get handed to us in a little box to remove and exam. Just the way they turn their upper bodies round and go into that defensive position with teeth and claws showing makes me quiver as I waiting for an imminent attack! Urghhhhhhh.

The farce is I have NEVER been bitten by a hamster

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Gem Sprague — Sat, 21 Mar 2009 10:52:30 GMT

EKKK they look like the bigger version of my spiderflys!!! They do look like a tic dont they! Can they fly?? I hate the little buggers, they are the only things that freak me out!!!

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Kerry Spain — Sat, 21 Mar 2009 10:43:42 GMT

GAH! I call them sticky flies because you can never seem to shake them off once they are on you.

They are called Louse Flies/ Hippoboscid flies or Flat-Flies, they are the largest parasite found on birds and suck blood , bit like a flying tick if you like. They remind me of spiders a bit when they move thats probably why I don't like them.

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Gem Sprague — Sat, 21 Mar 2009 10:05:08 GMT

Hmm sounds like the mite things i see on pigeons STRVN, sometimes you can see them really scuttle inbetween the feathers if you watch the bird for a bit. I looked on the internet a while ago and found which mite it was. They are commonly know as shealth flys or hippoboscidae. They are quite flat and adapted to living on wild birds.

Heres some info on these horrible things!!! http://www.hiltonpond.org/thisweek051108.html

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Sandra Taylor RVN, MBVNA — Sat, 21 Mar 2009 01:41:13 GMT

Parasites on swifts......... anyone seen them??? never even knew they existed until I worked in Derbyshire and had an injured swift........... this THING!!!!!!!!! crawled out of the bird(they are prevelant to swifts) and it looked alien to me, I have never seen anything like it and they are soooooooo fast you almost miss them.

IO tried to get a pic off google but they dont have any.... sorry

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Gem Sprague — Fri, 20 Mar 2009 08:52:25 GMT

Hi! Yeah i love a good abcess!! Esp if its a rabbity one which comes out like toothpaste!!!

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Saskia Quinn — Thu, 19 Mar 2009 23:32:45 GMT

lol

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S-J — Thu, 19 Mar 2009 23:29:34 GMT

i agree totally, u just cant beat a decent cheesy cat abcess, squishy

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Saskia Quinn — Thu, 19 Mar 2009 23:27:29 GMT

hehe I know what you mean Vicky

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Vicky RVN — Thu, 19 Mar 2009 21:26:30 GMT

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i hate to say it espesially being a vet nurse but i cant abide pus, especially in cat abcess!!! it makes me physically sik, i have to look away, now they know at work, i get to deal with all the abcesses great!!! not.

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omg Finnigan I looovvvee cat bite absesses!! I know, its a strange sort of thing to actually like them but I love getting all the horrible stuff out!!!

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Ooo i LOVE a good old abscess too! It's the satisfaction of all of the pus being flushed out ! The other day when vet wanted to do an abscess...i got all excited only to find out it had already burst at home and just needed cleaning...no fun !

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Saskia Quinn — Thu, 19 Mar 2009 18:31:37 GMT

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omg Finnigan I looovvvee cat bite absesses!! I know, its a strange sort of thing to actually like them but I love getting all the horrible stuff out!!!

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Gem Sprague — Thu, 19 Mar 2009 17:53:13 GMT

Hi All!!

I have a phobia of those horrible flying mites that live on wild birds (like crows and esp pigeons!). I have named them in the practice 'spider-mites!' as they seem to scuttle and then fly at your face. I once carried a badly injured crow from someones boot into the surgery and one of the little buggers crawled up my arm!!! Not nice, and pigeons seem to haveloads of them! They are they only things i hate!!!!!

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Maria Mahon — Thu, 19 Mar 2009 17:03:18 GMT

My biggest phobia is vomit/vomiting. I literally cannot cope with any related situation, I can't be around drunk people for fear of someone vomiting and I HATE hospitals for fear of catching a V&D bug.

Unfortunatly my man seems to be quite prone to tummy bugs and I won't see him when he's got one, don't know what would happen if we were living together. One night a few years ago, my brother was up during the night being horrendosly sick and I'm still haunted by the sounds, I go to bed every night worrying that I'll be woken up again by the sound of someone vomiting.

Other less odd fears are spiders/insects and ill people in general; I also cannot stand people coughing or burping (again because in my head, burping leads to vomiting..) The sound of someone coughing is like nails on a chalk board to me.

I worry all the time that I'm about to go down with some horrid bug, even when I feel completely normal.

(This is why I am in the veterinary nursing industry not human nursing!!)

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Nick Shackleton — Wed, 18 Mar 2009 21:52:56 GMT

Clowns area big no no find them dead dead creepy (maybe its cos I saw IT at a young age)

This is gonna sound strange but cant eat dried fruit cos it feel funny when chewed. something to do with the texture I think....

I know someone who doesnt water chestnuts for the same reason

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Vicky RVN — Wed, 18 Mar 2009 21:49:17 GMT

Glass bricks for walls?! How odd! Don't think i could have made myself use those loos!

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Fiona Leathers — Mon, 16 Mar 2009 08:33:57 GMT

I have another phobia - I can't sit on a warm toilet seat! If the toilet has just been used by someone else I'll have to wait until it is cold. I also can't pee if I know someone is waiting outside or can hear me. Can be very annoying in busy pubs! Once went to a pub in Dunfermilne which had glass bricks for walls and communal toilets for both sexes. I had to leave!!

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Kerry Spain — Mon, 16 Mar 2009 01:13:12 GMT

Hissy - I've put a caution up on the thread... sorry! I should have done it before as I hate spiders too!!

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FINNIGAN — Mon, 16 Mar 2009 00:28:20 GMT

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Sandra Taylor RVN, MBVNA — Sun, 15 Mar 2009 19:01:58 GMT

My youngest daughter has 2 phobias that i think are unusual.

She hates people tapping their fingers on a surface.......I know it can be annoying anyway but she freaks out..... she screams if you do it and covers her ears. Also she has a phobia of our couch, she wont sit on it unless she is wrapped up in a blanket, and she cant touch it at all.

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hissycat — Sun, 15 Mar 2009 17:49:05 GMT

OMG that spider pic made by blood run cold. (sorry cold phobics!) there should definitely be a warning on this thread! explicit spider pics! *shudder* As for my fire phobia I think its not so much actual fire that scares me but the though of being burnt. Only by fire though, I once poured boiling water over my hand accidently and that didn't bother me that much except for the inconvenience of a non working hand and the unsightly blisters that formed... liked sqeezing the pus out though...

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GemRVN — Sun, 15 Mar 2009 16:43:06 GMT

My phobia's include scorpions, dating back to some scary arab man in tunisia doing some snake show... me and the fella went back to tunisia a few years back and went to the sahara desert i couldn't sleep in the hotel for fear of one being near me or coming in through the window! Another is of flying but it ain't as bad as it used to be after i flew to Chicargo and back a couple of years ago. My worse phobia is dying. I have severe panic attacks about it and the only way i relax is by telling my fella, i'm having bad thoughts and by doing sudoku. I can't bear the thought of not being alive or the thought of my family and friends dying. I've had this for years xx

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Kerry Spain — Sun, 15 Mar 2009 14:28:26 GMT

Sorry guys I should have explained a little more about the camel spiders, they belong to the arachnid order but are actually called Solifugae or Egyptian Giant Solpugid, making them not true spiders like scorpions (in fact they have more in common with scorpions). There are roughly 900... yes 900 species of camel spider (as if 1 wasn't enough??!! ), They are incredibly fast runners topping speeds of up to 15 miles per hour . They live in desert climates, Although not poisonus they deliver a very nasty bite.

There as been a report that a soldier returning from Iraq to the U.K. accidentally brought one home in his kit and it bit the family dog and kiled it, google for newspaper reports...ok I'm going to spend the next half hour rocking in a corner...