Tales From Daddy's Gross Job (The pathology laboratory). ******** Trigger Warning*******

[Daddy Bear 77]

Today is take your little to work day. Daddy works in a pathology laboratory helping the doctors make sick people well. I am a Gross Dissector, which means when people get ouchies or bumps on their body a doctor will remove it and send it to us. Daddy receives the bad part of the person and makes it ready for the pathologist, can you say pathologist, to look at. The pathologist is a doctor that specializes in diseased tissue and can tell what is wrong with the person and if the first doctor removed all of it so the patient can be all better. I use many tool in my job to help the doctors make the patient all better. I use a very sharp knife called a scalpel to cut big pieces of yucky parts into small pieces. The scalpel is very sharp and can cut little hands if they're not careful so just look for the time being and daddy will show you a little bit more when you come back. ( Let me know if you like the cutsie format of taking you to see my job or if you would prefer a more professional format).

Here is Daddy's grossing station sorry I just got the new hood and it's not organized yet. 

https://photos.app.goo.gl/fzDuHjy7hn1JFShx6

Edited May 14 by Daddy Bear 77

[.คℓ𝐞ﾒเᏰααα .ᐟ]

As someone who's naturally curious, this was actually really interesting!

What sort of common abnormalities do you come across? Do you know what you're cutting up? Do you just tear into it? Do they give you dangerous tissue that's contagious? What's the grossest thing you've cut up so far? Has something ever been so gross, that you just couldn't cut it? And what about icky smells?!

You're not my Daddy though, so I would have preferred a softer teacher-like approach instead of a full professional format. Maybe instead of bring your kids to work day, be more like career day at school and talk to a wider audience while using crayon eating terms.

Either way, it's interesting. Much fun. 

[Daddy Bear 77]

9 minutes ago, .คℓ𝐞ﾒเᏰααα .ᐟ said:

As someone who's naturally curious, this was actually really interesting!

What sort of common abnormalities do you come across? Do you know what you're cutting up? Do you just tear into it? Do they give you dangerous tissue that's contagious? What's the grossest thing you've cut up so far? Has something ever been so gross, that you just couldn't cut it? And what about icky smells?!

You're not my Daddy though, so I would have preferred a softer teacher-like approach instead of a full professional format. Maybe instead of bring your kids to work day, be more like career day at school and talk to a wider audience while using crayon eating terms.

Either way, it's interesting. Much fun. 

Thank you for the feedback, I wasn't certain if that was the best format but it was one that came out to me naturally as I looked for a way to start this off on my lunch break. I'll try the teacher role I think that will work. Id hoped to do like continual update to this in a story like form so I'll try to answer these questions when I get home tonight in the next part. 

[.คℓ𝐞ﾒเᏰααα .ᐟ]

Fair enough and you're welcome.

Curious to hear the answers, but hopefully I'm not the only one who's asked questions by then.

[MissNMTX]

We should have daddies teaching on here. Whatever they specialize in. They can teach all of us who like to think of ourselves as cute smarty-pants.

[MissAnna]

4 hours ago, Daddy Bear 77 said:

Today is take your little to work day. Daddy works in a pathology laboratory helping the doctors make sick people well. I am a Gross Dissector, which means when people get ouchies or bumps on their body a doctor will remove it and send it to us. Daddy receives the bad part of the person and makes it ready for the pathologist, can you say pathologist, to look at. The pathologist is a doctor that specializes in diseased tissue and can tell what is wrong with the person and if the first doctor removed all of it so the patient can be all better. I use many tool in my job to help the doctors make the patient all better. I use a very sharp knife called a scalpel to cut big pieces of yucky parts into small pieces. The scalpel is very sharp and can cut little hands if they're not careful so just look for the time being and daddy will show you a little bit more when you come back. ( Let me know if you like the cutsie format of taking you to see my job or if you would prefer a more professional format).

Here is Daddy's grossing station sorry I just got the new hood and it's not organized yet. 

https://photos.app.goo.gl/fzDuHjy7hn1JFShx6

Little bit of information, make sure you have all medical names covered and dates of birth hidden 

From one medical staff member to another ☺️

[Daddy Bear 77]

6 minutes ago, MissAnna said:

Little bit of information, make sure you have all medical names covered and dates of birth hidden 

From one medical staff member to another ☺️

Thank you for the reminder! I automatically remove all phi or deidentify anything before I document cases. What is your field, what do you do?

[MissAnna]

I am a CCMA nothing as invasive or important as what you do 

And make sure you blot out the sticky note, even if it doesn't have full names it still has their names 

I don't want anyone to get into trouble 

Edited May 15 by MissAnna

[Daddy Bear 77]

31 minutes ago, MissAnna said:

I am a CCMA nothing as invasive or important as what you do 

And make sure you blot out the sticky note, even if it doesn't have full names it still has their names 

I don't want anyone to get into trouble 

There's never a name in any of the pictures or information other than the case number which I remove as well. Damn I just had about an hour reply/ story just reload and be lost. I think I'll reply later tonight when I'll have a keyboard with me. But I'll leave you with one of the three grossest specimens I have seen that I was about to introduce. This was from someone's back and looked a lot like the fruit on a magnolia tree. 

https://photos.app.goo.gl/fYFoBtZfGGstV2Ng8

 

Don't sell yourself short, every link in our chain is important and vital to helping our patients get better and any good you put out into the world is very important especially in our current circumstances. 

Edited May 15 by Daddy Bear 77

[MissAnna]

Oh my goodness it looks like a dragon fruit holy cheese Batman 

Was it a benign tumor? Though it looks more like a gourd but I'm no doctor 

From the right angel it looks like a human heart, I would pass out if I had your job lol 

[Andriel_Isilien]

I've known a pathologist for many years. I describe the job as, "looks at bits and pieces of you under a microscope". Last I heard, skin cancer was the main diagnosis and that has scarred me into avoiding sun exposure.

 

Are you able to handle eating steak? I heard that is too much like the samples in the lab.

[Daddy Bear 77]

54 minutes ago, Andriel_Isilien said:

I've known a pathologist for many years. I describe the job as, "looks at bits and pieces of you under a microscope". Last I heard, skin cancer was the main diagnosis and that has scarred me into avoiding sun exposure.

 

Are you able to handle eating steak? I heard that is too much like the samples in the lab.

Lol omg this! Yes so much of it looks like food that my phone will not find pictures of specimens by searching for skin, tissue or specimens but if I search for " food" they show up every time! When I first started this job I thought about words like tender, friable, and cherry were strictly for food. It made me think of that Jim Gaffigan skit where he's watching a dog food commercial thinking, " yeah those are some savory cuts of beef.....don't give it to the dog". Lol 

[Daddy Bear 77]

8 hours ago, .คℓ𝐞ﾒเᏰααα .ᐟ said:

As someone who's naturally curious, this was actually really interesting!

What sort of common abnormalities do you come across? Do you know what you're cutting up? Do you just tear into it? Do they give you dangerous tissue that's contagious? What's the grossest thing you've cut up so far? Has something ever been so gross, that you just couldn't cut it? And what about icky smells?!

You're not my Daddy though, so I would have preferred a softer teacher-like approach instead of a full professional format. Maybe instead of bring your kids to work day, be more like career day at school and talk to a wider audience while using crayon eating terms.

Either way, it's interesting. Much fun. 

Crap I meant to have this tonight but I remembered I have therapy tomorrow at 7 am. I promise I'll get it out tomorrow. ❤️❤️❤️❤️

[.คℓ𝐞ﾒเᏰααα .ᐟ]

There's no rush, take your time.

[Daddy Bear 77]

Gather around students and I will answer any questions you have about the Grossing profession. *Alex raising their hand* Yes Alex.

  

On 5/14/2025 at 4:05 PM, .คℓ𝐞ﾒเᏰααα .ᐟ said:

As someone who's naturally curious, this was actually really interesting!

What sort of common abnormalities do you come across? Do you know what you're cutting up? Do you just tear into it? Do they give you dangerous tissue that's contagious? What's the grossest thing you've cut up so far? Has something ever been so gross, that you just couldn't cut it? And what about icky smells?!

You're not my Daddy though, so I would have preferred a softer teacher-like approach instead of a full professional format. Maybe instead of bring your kids to work day, be more like career day at school and talk to a wider audience while using crayon eating terms.

Either way, it's interesting. Much fun. 

We receive all types of tissue from all over a person's body. We get specimens from every part of the skin... yes every part. We get specimens from the mouth, throat, stomach, intestines and yes their bottom. We receive specimens from inside the breasts, from nails, and from girls special parts that we call gynecological specimens. We get parts of the eyes and sometimes even complete globes ( eyes). Each type of specimen has abnormalities that are largely specific to the type of tissue we are dealing with. For example skin can have hard brown or orange growths that are called horns that appear in different places on the body. This is often a type of cancer called Squamous cell carcinoma (scc). Gastrointestinal specimens will often be polyps or tissue that might be cancerous. Eye specimens have had melanomas ( a cancer of the melanocytes which make your skin pigment), that started on the skin somewhere else, because melanomas can travel more easily throughout the body. Some eyes have calcified, some have macular degeneration or a variety of other issues. Recently we have started getting bone specimens and entire amputated toes. 

Yes I usually do know what I am cutting into. The paper that comes with the specimen tells a lot of information about the person it came from, where on them it came from, and what the submitting doctor thinks is likely to be the problem. We don´t always know thought and may have to consult with the doctors or keep our descriptions very noncommittal so as to not influence the pathologist diagnosis. We have to act as their eyes and so it is very important that we know what we are looking at, describe it and what procedures we perform on it accurately to give them as much information as if they were performing the dissection themselves.

We Don´t just tear into it because we want to preserve the tissue as close to the original state it was in as possible especially at the cellular and tissue levels. We use very sharp blades called scalpels that slice through nearly anything we receive and we have specific procedures we perform with different types of tissue. Some of the more complex procedures require us to draw diagrams showing the doctors what we did and we often use different color inks to indicate which side of the clock face the specimen is oriented to and even which part is the outer margin vs the untrue margin. I open a bottle and demonstrate how easily I slice a surface shaving of skin into thin strips before putting them into a cassette to hold them for processing.

We treat all the tissue as though it was dangerous and infectious, which is called universal precautions. It does arrive in a chemical called formalin, which itself is dangerous, and while that kills most pathogen it doesn´t kill them all so we wear gloves and other personal protective gear and have showers and eye washes should something contaminate completely or get into our eyes.

The grossest thing I have ever dissected was a large cancerous tumor on this person´s knee. Usually a large specimen takes no more than 10 cassettes and the biggest 30 but this one took 134 cassettes and several hours to finish. Maybe the amputated toes were actually grosser or the time I received a gastrointestinal bottle where the patient didn´t do their cleanse and it was filled with this sand like muck inside it that I had to sift through in an attempt to find the polyps that had been removed. That said I have never encountered anything that was too gross to handle. I have never really been bothered by the human body or biology in general. I even helped deliver my first son and cut the cord without the slightest bit of squeamishness. 

There are a lot of smells in the laboratory, xylene and formalin both are quite strong though xylene has a pleasant smell to me. Sometimes a cyst can be pungent depending on the type of cyst and if it has had enough time to fixate. Mostly the hoods we have keep the airflow moving and I am really only bothered by the smell of vomit or spoiled milk.

I will try to answer more questions on my days off students so please send more and I will answer and show as I am able. Thank you for attending my Teddy Talk.

 

Grossest thing https://photos.app.goo.gl/h2gRYNkhSmpSzgGx6

https://photos.app.goo.gl/UmDH3w3xqszDaAfaA

https://photos.app.goo.gl/2ncAz4fExvVw5aCBA

Toe https://photos.app.goo.gl/m862Hwcm7wZEJPjU7

 

https://photos.app.goo.gl/1CfgC8cdQKa6gRws9

Heart shaped lesion https://photos.app.goo.gl/tV3r1i1ZXzbRHbrJ8

Edited May 18 by Daddy Bear 77

[.คℓ𝐞ﾒเᏰααα .ᐟ]

As somebody who's chronically ill and in and out of in/outpatient settings, my issues have never crossed into *nasty lesion being dissected like a frog* territory yet. If you're wondering, I have moderate scoliosis, which indirectly affects other areas of the body. And after reading this thoroughly answered post to my questions (thanks), I seriously hope I don't have to have anything sent to a pathologist! The knee/toe/eye one freaked me out the most and I don't normally consider myself too squeamish. The descriptions you gave of the smells, instantly reminded me of frog and worm dissection that I was forced to do alone in middle school, despite not wanting to do so. The smell was absolutely terrible, but I'm glad people (such as yourself) don't seem too bothered by it enough to not do your job!

But what about boys special parts? You specifically mentioned girls, but I like gender equality and am now curious about what that's called. But beyond that, I don't have any further questions at this time, but if I think of any, I'll certainly be sure to raise my hand again!

*teddy talks*

Also, you added the heart shaped specimen at the end. And while under different conditions I'd potentially consider that type of gesture as nothing more than cute, please keep in mind that I'm only here to make SFW friends and SFW chat. I'm happily married irl and am not looking for a romantic partner. No, I'm not mad, but I still feel that my boundaries disclaimer is necessary because of the type of site this is.

[Daddy Bear 77]

Thank you! I'm glad you liked it. We do get things removed from boy parts too but that is grouped in with the tissue considered skin and I didn't go into it much. The lady parts are a different type of tissue, except the most outer parts, so we have different procedures and treat it differently. My apologies with the picture I didn't think about anything but the heart on it and it being interesting. I sent that to my little long ago back when we were together and I didn't think about how it appeared in an attempt to add photos at the end. In hindsight it was an affectionately funny picture for who I intended it for and outside that context I didn't think about how it might be taken here. My apologies.  I'm at the end of a relationship but I am not interested in anything but sfw friends for the foreseeable future as well. 

Edited May 19 by Daddy Bear 77

[.คℓ𝐞ﾒเᏰααα .ᐟ]

But boy parts got inside stuff as well, so that's also grouped in with regular skin tissue too? I suppose the reproductive tissue in girls is still technically way different given their function.

And I figured as much, but just wanted to extend a gentle disclaimer explaining my end's situation. I'm typically always up for SFW chat~

[Kittyara207]

Or I used to work one of the doctors I worked with was the one who got to cut all the parts off and send them to you guys.  I would set up the sterile fields, the instruments to make the cut, his sewing kits ready, sample cups etc.   Help collect samples too.  It was really kind of cool and gross at the same time.   We would talk sometimes afterwards saying what do you think type questions.  The doctor I worked with I've been doing this for at least 35yr.  I got to know the patients well because the practice we worked at was also a family doctor office.  With 10 providers.  Also worked with an oncologist for a bit and an infectious disease specialist.   There are some fun stories from all of these providers I have collected.   Then I got to go into the biohazard area and get the instruments ready to be sterilized.  Also got to see some scary looking biopsies.  Had to learn to keep an unreadable face so patients didn't get scared.

There was a cyst once that he removed and it broke open and yeah the smell was nasty.  And one that completely hardened that bounced across the floor.  

Edited Thursday at 01:02 PM by Kittyara207

[siren_79_]

I found it quite interesting and appreciated the way you geared it to us littles.