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What's the most disgusting thing you ever came across while working as an EMT?

For a patient who was still alive? The hoarder who'd been on the floor for four days in a puddle of her own mess.

Dirty plates and pots and pans piled to the ceiling full of rotting food, so much garbage piled in the house we had to break in through a window and make a trail to get her out again.

I made the department replace my boots after that one, and drove home barefoot.

Have at it.