Personal HygieneThere comes a point at which your hygiene becomes less your problem and more everyone else's:
My old school nurse never seemed to wash - instead she wrapped herself in crepe bandages from the first aid kits. The smell was beyond pungent. If you got ill at school, it was better to suffer than try and explain symptoms whilst only breathing out.
When she was eventually 'let go',they had to strip the wallpaper in her office to get rid of the lingering odour.
How scuzzy have you got? Or, failing that, how bad have people you know got?
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chthonic, Thu 22 Mar 2007, 12:40)
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Gah!I had a patient once who insisted for weeks to her family and doctor that a fly had gotten into the cavity where her eye and some of the surrounding flesh had been taken out. It was bandaged over and no one believed her.
She came in to stay with us for a while after the doctor took off the bandage to inspect the wound and a tiny bluebottle brazenly flew out.
We had to debride the maggots daily.*
And now for your viewing pleasure:
allnurses.com/forums/f58/what-your-most-gross-yucky-disgusting-nursing-horror-story-20151.html
Post number 3 is particularly juicy, I think.
*We poured salt water into the cavity to flush out the larvae. The cavity was so big that it connected with the back of her throat--she would bend over the sink, we would pour, and all the water with the little carcasses and infection would rush out her mouth. We had to paint her tongue with petroleum jelly to mask the taste of the rotten flesh. This poor woman was so sweet to us; never complained or yelled at us.
(, Fri 23 Mar 2007, 2:58, Reply)
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