How rude is it not to tip? >> the most disgusting thread in Goodreads.>> nurses win.

[Hanna]

Okay, hair plus poop. I did not want to go there...


*unfollows this discussion

[Félix]

It's part of your nurse training, Hanna.

[Hanna]

I've seen enough, thank you.

[Sally, la reina]

Hanna wrote: "
Can you eat your hair?

The answer is both yes and no. Some people develop a habit of plucking and eating their hair. It is a condition called "trichophagia". This is potentially a very dangerous ..."






Ewwwwwwww!

[janine]

hair doesn't gross me out, which is a good thing, because my hair is long and thick and dark and there's a lot of it.

[Phoenix]

Shit...I'm so dead!

[Lobstergirl, el principe]

This is now officially the most disgusting thread in Goodreads.

Thanks, all!

[Félix]

I remember having a conversation with Charissa's sister in which we discussed someone saying a house was "like a pig sty."

We agreed that this person had obviously never actually seen a pig sty.

[Sally, la reina]

Sometimes I feel like Pig Pen.

[Félix]

Pig Pen's best friend is Sally.

[Phil]

Sally, queen of yoga PFs.

[[deleted user]]

Hanna wrote: "Okay, hair plus poop. I did not want to go there...


*unfollows this discussion"

You started it, Hanna!

[Phil]

Barb, your comment cracked me up. It made me think of the comedian who won "Last Comic Standing" a few years ago. One of his bits included his mom trying to give him a haircut, and he ran away, yelling, "Mom's trying to cut my hair with the dingleberry scissors!" Because, you know, dingleberries are those pieces of turd that get stuck in the dog's anal region after he takes a crap.

And I've totally had to clean up some blowout diapers.

[janine]

i have an iron stomach too, for words at least, and have done b maybe twice (litter box), never done a (i've changed poopy diapers, but never encountered shit explosions) and never done c.

[Sally, la reina]

I got poop in my eye once changing a diaper.

[[deleted user]]

Barb wrote: "Really? This is the grossest thread now? Oh come on; most of us have pets and they don't clean up their own shit do they? Is there anyone here who's never
a) cleaned shit off a baby's back bec..."

A and B, but thankfully (so far) never C. :)

Though, when I was a nanny in Texas I had a little one who liked to take her diaper off during her nap if she pooped and smear it all over the bars of her crib...that was pretty ick. She'd finger paint it pretty much all over herself too. I learned to put her diaper on back-to-front before her nap, she never did figure that out! *snicker*

I can't have kids, but being a nanny got me over all of that. I've been pooed on, peed on, bogeyed on (that's boogers for you yanks:) and barfed on more times than I can count. It does desensitize you. I think the people who get grossed out about the hair thing have a slight phobia though. I'm sure it was that way with my old roommate anyway.

[[deleted user]]

I never did...my mom would have beaten me senseless!

[Heidi]

I saw the title changed to "Now officially the most disgusting thread on Goodreads" and I HAD to come here to check it out (and the whole I time I was waiting to get to the disgusting part, I was wondering if Smetchie found it yet because we share an affinity for gross stuff).

I think gross stuff is neato.

Not hair, though. Ewww. Eww, eww, eww.

[Sally, la reina]

Barb wrote: "I ♥ Sally. Seriously."



::basks::

[Heidi]

I ♥ Sally, too.

(SALLERS!!!)

[Sarah]

Admission:
I have never changed a diaper. Even when I was babysitting, I never babysat for babies, and my niece lives in another hemisphere, and all my friends with babies are the type of friends where you hand the baby back after a little bit.

I'm squeamish about human ick but fine with dog and horse.

[Mary]

Babies and pets are nothing. You do not want to know the disgusting things I've had to deal with as a nurse. You just don't.

[Heidi]

Mary wrote: "Babies and pets are nothing. You do not want to know the disgusting things I've had to deal with as a nurse. You just don't."

I'm right there with you, Mary... even the paramedics and nurses who worked with me at the methadone clinic would get grossed out from time to time when handling the urine screens we'd get from study participants and patients... and the saliva samples would make the DNA guys gag. I wasn't typically squeamish unless pus or snot was involved.

[Phil]

For the last month or so before she passed my MIL was wearing a diaper...

[[deleted user]]

Ummm, the nurse takes the prize. Hospital crap is the worst. Stuff out of nightmares. Like looking in on a book being written by a very very demented person who loves gore. Worked there...:)

[Heidi]

Sonia wrote: "Ummm, the nurse takes the prize. Hospital crap is the worst. Stuff out of nightmares. Like looking in on a book being written by a very very demented person who loves gore. Worked there...:)"

The methadone clinic is in the hospital. I still work in the hospital... just with the Ob/Gyn folks now.

[Sally, la reina]

Nurses win. I could never do that job. Especially the part about dealing with prick doctors.

Kudos to you.

[Phoenix]

Ah, shit. I've had so many not so lovely experiences with it. I recived my first shit shower when my son was 10 days old. I was changing his diaper, I thought he was done pooping, I lifted his legs to slide the diaper out from underneath him...and he just exploded...there is no other way to describe it. There was shit all over me, the couch, the wall, and even some on the floor. I should've known then that shit would be a theme with my son. He painted every reachable surface with shit at one time or another. When he was 3 he started hiding his shit, in empty coffee cans, under the sink, behind the christmas tree...but my favorite has to be the time he shit in the dishwasher...and turned it on. When I asked him why, he pointed to the the dishwasher and said "I flushed it". It still amazes me that he could grasp the consept of how the dishwasher worked but he couldn't understand why he should crap in the toilet... Oi!

[Félix]

Oi is right.

[Cynthia]

Yes, Nurses win.
It is hard to gross me out. My pediatrician husband has told me every gross story in the world. Grossest one so far has involved a diabetic foot and a trail of goo. He can really tell a gross story. I don't mind, except at the dinner table.

[Jammies]

Oh, please, I can outgross a nurse with one story. (view spoiler)[The last time I had two dogs, the older one had diarrhea at one point and he pooped and the younger dog ate the poop and then barfed it back up on my bedroom floor at 5 a.m. (hide spoiler)]

[Mary]

It's still just poop and vomit. Not impressed.

[Sally, la reina]

Not gonna click either.

:bumps fist with Bun:

[Cynthia]

Mary wrote: "It's still just poop and vomit. Not impressed."

Yeah, me neither. I've seen worse.

[Lyzzibug ~Still Breathing~]

smetchie wrote: "Well of course! Its the equivalent of "kissing it up to God.""

Love the saying, I use, "That's between you and God."

[[deleted user]]

Steve Mort once conned me into googling a term which came up with a video of Brazilian girls pooing on each other then eating it. It was mentally damaging. Sometimes the Internet is a bad bad place...

Nurses do win. It's the smells that bother me, over active gag reflex. Can't control it. The idea of bodily fluids isn't that big of a deal, I'm not afraid of needles or blood or anything. Smells get me gagging in no time.

[Phil]

Sally wrote: "Nurses win. I could never do that job. Especially the part about dealing with prick doctors."

So the people in that specialty are worse than the foot doctors, heart doctors or family practice doctors?

[Heidi]

Did I ever tell you guys the story about the guy who (view spoiler)[came in to give a urine sample, my former paramedic-coworker supervising in the same room, and all of a sudden I hear "WHAT THE HELL IS THAT?!!" from inside the bathroom... apparently about 3 mL of pus goo settled into the bottom of his urine - he peed it before he actually started peeing. That was the grossest gross I've ever seen. It was even kind of tan..ish. Coworker looked like he was gonna vomit when he walked out of the bathroom behind the guy. He was white as a sheet and speechless. Apparently the guy had a VD that had gone undetected. Also, you should see some of the slides we show at the nursing teleconferences for CNE credit - last week we had pics of pressure ulcers... during lunch. I love that the nurses were steadily eating away at their subway sandwiches while looking at the pictures. (hide spoiler)]?

[Félix]

I need a drink right now.

[Phoenix]

I have got to stop clicking on the frickin spoilers.

[Lyzzibug ~Still Breathing~]

....

[Sally, la reina]

I don't understand what you are asking me Phil. I was merely conceding a point.

[Helena]

Hands down, nurses win!

When I was a K9 officer, as a staff sgt. I was required to interact with all the dogs, feed, clean etc.

I was covered in dog poop many times. It became commonplace- I was able to wipe it off my pants with my bare hands (I went through too many pairs of gloves). Yuck. Prepared me for baby poop/diapers/vomit.

[Heidi]

I think he was being punny, Sallers... as in do you have an issue with doctors who deal with penis issues... you know - urologists.

[Phil]

Exactly. She said "prick doctors." Why pick on that specialty?

[Carol]

Nurses definitely win.

I never thought I'd give my cat an enema. It's surprising what you can get used to.

[Phoenix]

I agree, nurses have it the absolute worst, I could never do their job.

[Hanna]

You know you're a nurse if you're reading this thread while eating food, while picturing the poop, saliva, pus and diabetic feet.

What can I say, I'm a visual learner.

Wait, is that hair in my bagel?

(Ok why am I still following this thread anyway? I think I lied...)

[Hanna]

A colleague at work was administering an enema when she suddenly looked up at me and gave me two silent words, "Oh no" After we got the pt settled back in bed, we came out of the room and she told me the enema water spilled all over her shoes. When I looked down she was wearing Crocs (those rubber things with holes all over). Moral: Never wear crocs while doing an enema. Actually scratch that, never wear crocs Period. So unpractical and ugly...who invented them anyway?

[Sally, la reina]

Oh goodness, message 300, I was supposed to pick up on IMPLIED puns? I'm not punny enough! In fact, I suck at puns.