the "poop core"

July 18, 2007

So, as you all know, I work with the elderly... And most of them are pretty with it...especially on my unit... Well, last night was a whole different story... Kathy and I were doing rounds, and we smelled shit...lots of it...we both assumed it was from the bowel obsessed woman on the other side of the hall, as she fought to GET a soap suds enema last night lol (dont people usually fight to NOT get one of those ? lol) WE WERE WRONG lol We go into the room across from hers, and the shit hit us... literally... I will refer to my resident only as "old guy" in the story... Old Guy needs to be checked and changed a couple of times a night, as he is primarily incontinent... We need to make sure that his bedside table is free from any muscle rub, as he has been known to confuse muscle rub with lotion and masturbate with it (lol that was a funny night lol)... When we walked into Old Guy's room, the smell hit us...then I stepped on a chunker of poo... THEN we turned the lights on... We both just kinda looked at eachother and cocked our heads to the side in bewilderment... Old Guy had a cup of water on his bedside table as well as his assortment of other things (all covered in poopy fingerprints btw)... In the cup of water were chunkers of poo... It was a discusting mess!!! There was poopy marks all over this guy...his hands, his gown, blankets sheets, pillowcase (which means it was in his hair too)... We were both very disturbed by the whole scene as neither of our kids had ever played in poopy (Ive got my 2 boys, and Kathy has 4 kids of her own)... We were cleaning him up, and trying not to let him touch us with his poop hands when he started rambling about the "core" in the cup... We thought that he put something IN the poopy that was in the cup on his table... LOL NOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO He was refering to the poop itself...it was the "core"... (writing this makes me giggle lol) He is rambling about the "poop core" with this HUGE smile on his face, and we realize that this man is completely insane lol He was only thought to be mildly confused untill last night lol Im thinking that he is a bit more confused than we previously thought...