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What's the most disgusting thing you ever had to do? And how did you manage it?

Posted - June 3, 2020
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  • 53509

     

      I had to think long and hard for an answer, but what I arrived at I found too graphic to put onto this forum. I hadn’t thought about it in almost twenty years, though. 

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      June 3, 2020 9:54 PM MDT
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  • 53509

     

      How about you; same question?
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      June 3, 2020 11:03 PM MDT
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  • 4624
    First week on the job - back when I was an aged care nurse for a few years.
    A resident who has survived cancer may have a hole in the larynx fitted with an artificial voice box. It has to be cleaned every day and it smells something dreadful. Likewise the pouches that substitute for intestines.
    Some haemorrhoids can hang out like large bunches of grapes. They need daily cleaning.
    The smells stick in the nose for hours after having left the work place.

    To cope, I imagined I was them, and focused on being gentle, not showing my feelings, and allowing them as much dignity as possible.
    But the truth is there is nothing dignified about those situations.

    Eventually my sense of smell became an asset. I could smell the ketone smell of a diabetic in time to provide a savoury snack to prevent an attack. I could smell it in the skin if a schitzophrenic or a bi-polar had pocketed their meds.




    This post was edited by inky at June 4, 2020 7:13 AM MDT
      June 3, 2020 11:40 PM MDT
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  • 53509

     

      Wow. I’m left wordless. 

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      June 3, 2020 11:43 PM MDT
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  • 11110
    Once I had to help control  the bleeding on the leg of a guy that cut himself with a chainsaw. The chain on a chainsaw is a 1/4 inch wide  so  it was a wide and deep cut. I think  how I managed to do it was because the other guy that was there helped keep me calm. After it was over I passed out. Cheers!
      June 3, 2020 10:28 PM MDT
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  • 4624
    Amazing, isn't it! How we cope with the most amazing things in the moment, and only later, when it's safe, have the reaction.
      June 3, 2020 11:29 PM MDT
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  • 44620
    Cleaning a mess of dried vomit where I work. The drunken arsole missed the toilet. I had to scrub it partially by hand as it was stuck in the floor. I threw away the mop.
      June 4, 2020 7:17 AM MDT
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  • 14795
    It just goes to sho'e that and bit of slop & tickle is nothing like the real thing Papa,ain't tit...:( 
      June 4, 2020 7:21 AM MDT
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  • 44620
    Yep.
      June 4, 2020 7:24 AM MDT
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  • 14795
    To rebuke a big puker can be quite Foo'ker ....:(
      June 4, 2020 7:31 AM MDT
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  • 14795
    Dis'stain or Dat'dain is almost impossible to remove with out showing a fence....( Curles Lip ).   :( 
      June 4, 2020 7:26 AM MDT
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  • 448
    I worked for the State maintenance crew one summer and had to go down in a rest area's cesspool to unclog some pipes and was in over my ankles. I was nominated as was the youngest and newest worker. Once I got started I just adapted and did wind up with ticks as well but none bit. My Mother was not happy to see me come home that day.
      June 5, 2020 10:06 AM MDT
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  • 22891
    killing bedbugs, ive had my place heat treated and sprayed 5 times, ive had to get rid of my bed and couch, i got an airbed after, one way to get rid of them, theres no mattress for them to live on, havent had an issue in two yrs cause of it
      June 7, 2020 3:23 PM MDT
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