Having a crappy day at work? Some perspective...

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~Ally~

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A couple of years ago I had a patient who had the most explosive/runny diarrhoea. His mobility wasn't very good, and he was a heavy guy. Anyway he asked me to help him onto the commode by his bedside...no problem! When he finished I was helping him stand to clean him and he caught the cardboard "bedpan" that rests inside the commode...next thing I knew it went everywhere, all over the floor, and all over my legs. I was covered in a gross mixture of diarrhoea and urine. And I still had the job of cleaning it up from the floor/commode because all the other nurses were gagging! That really was a crappy shift! :barf:
 

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A couple of years ago I had a patient who had the most explosive/runny diarrhoea. His mobility wasn't very good, and he was a heavy guy. Anyway he asked me to help him onto the commode by his bedside...no problem! When he finished I was helping him stand to clean him and he caught the cardboard "bedpan" that rests inside the commode...next thing I knew it went everywhere, all over the floor, and all over my legs. I was covered in a gross mixture of diarrhoea and urine. And I still had the job of cleaning it up from the floor/commode because all the other nurses were gagging! That really was a crappy shift! :barf:

Ugh.....................
 

Neesy

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A couple of years ago I had a patient who had the most explosive/runny diarrhoea. His mobility wasn't very good, and he was a heavy guy. Anyway he asked me to help him onto the commode by his bedside...no problem! When he finished I was helping him stand to clean him and he caught the cardboard "bedpan" that rests inside the commode...next thing I knew it went everywhere, all over the floor, and all over my legs. I was covered in a gross mixture of diarrhoea and urine. And I still had the job of cleaning it up from the floor/commode because all the other nurses were gagging! That really was a crappy shift! :barf:
You must have a very strong stomach - thank God there are nurses like you that can handle that - poor guy!
(and poor you too, of course)