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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I used to work with cancer patientsand, as anyone who's done this work will tell you, there can be a certain 'cancer smell'.
It's not the patients' fault, and it's certainly not a matter of hygiene - it's just an unfortunate physiological fact.
One particularly unlucky patient radiated this aroma in spades. He was a lovely bloke, bless him.
While he was waiting for a hospice place he lived in a sideroom and went home for weekends.
As soon as he left, staff would descend on this room, fling open the window, strip the bed and scrub every possible inch of mattress, floor, equipment and woodwork in the effort to remove the smell.
It never worked. Not until he left for good, whereupon the smell melted away. Weird.
(, Sat 24 Mar 2007, 15:23, Reply)
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