zealia silly, silly NVR poll
Posted by VegHeadZealia on Jun 19, 2007 · Member since Mar 2007 · 1665 posts
okay guys...yeah. I had an INSANE night at work. I think I almost fainted twice....Anyone know what the world record is for number of hours gone without sleep? I felt like a human experiment! Normally I don't work three 17 hour shift on the weekend but they said it was an "emergency" strange, thats like the third one this month......
But I love my job...well, most the time. :o
Ill update it later. ;)
Zealia, I work at a retirement home too (the restaurant/minimal care portion)!! I bet we could trade SOOO many stories.
how do you manually empty someone's bowels? ???
Please take the answer to that question to private email or put in "spoiler" space so I can not read it! I need a green about to be sick emoticon for here. :D I guess I could just not open this topic again but I might forget and you never know when the topic will "swerve to the left" and turn funny and/or fascinating.
TinTexas...DON'T READ BELOW!
Manual emptying someone's bowels:
The assistant (in this case, VegHeadZealia) has to insert 1-2 fingers (gloved fingers, mind you) into the person's rectum and sort of "scoop" out whatever is in there. I think there may also be some stimulation involved there, too, if the poo wasn't ready to come out. It's not the most pleasant thing in the world, but I'm pretty sure it's worse for the person getting fingers stuck up their rectum (both physically and psychologically worse), but I've also never had to perform this procedure either...
TinTexas...DON'T READ BELOW!
Manual emptying someone's bowels:
The assistant (in this case, VegHeadZealia) has to insert 1-2 fingers (gloved fingers, mind you) into the person's rectum and sort of "scoop" out whatever is in there. I think there may also be some stimulation involved there, too, if the poo wasn't ready to come out. It's not the most pleasant thing in the world, but I'm pretty sure it's worse for the person getting fingers stuck up their rectum (both physically and psychologically worse), but I've also never had to perform this procedure either...
That's kinda... intimate. I think I'd prefer an enema.
I drank a lot of coffe and diet coke! Yep, that would be an accurate description of a manual clean out. Not fun. If somebody is so impacted that you can't do an enema or suppository, you have to---um assist. Yeah, although my hands were gloved, I was like compulsively washing them for hours. Whenever Ive gone a day or two with out sleep I start to get these things where you can feel all teh bloodvessel in your head contract (only it is not at all painful like a muigrain) every time your pulse rises. So as I was standing there, gloved hand--you-know-where, I almost fainted cause I was getting that whole contracting blood vessel thing...All I could think was..."No, not now!" First of all, when I came to Id be sop freaked out that my gloved hand accidentally touched something. Then the resident would be distirbed, to say teh least. But also, I'd never live it down... :-\
Yeah, AshlyKimball...Im sure we could. Ive been doing this for 5 years! My second job (the fisrt was a nanny) was working in kitchen at a nursing home like the one you have posted pictures of. It takes a certain kinda person (a healthcare worker) to appreiceate a good nursing home tale. ;)
Anyone know what the world record is for number of hours gone without sleep?
In the '60s a boy stayed awake for 11 days as part of some experiment.
I found this online (http://www.damninteresting.com/?p=133):
24 hours without sleep: fatigue, reduced attention span, problems with short-term memory
48-72 hours without sleep: poor coordination, muscle twitches, marked loss of concentration, impaired judgment, blurred vision, nausea, slurring of speech, microsleep (briefly sleeping for a few seconds at a time, without being aware of it).
4 to 5 days without sleep: extreme irritability, hallucinations, delusional episodes
6 to 8 days without sleep: slowed speech, tremors in limb extremities, memory lapse, confusion concerning one's own identity, unusual behavior, paranoia
9 to 11 nights without sleep: fragmented thinking occurs (beginning sentences without completing them), prolonged episodes of unresponsive "conscious stupor."
I work at a nursing home too. I'm a nurse's assistant. I also have chased down naked people but never helped to manually empty bowels. :o
I once heard that after 72 hours of not sleeping, you are considered legally insane. Hmmm...
One time a lady manually emptied HER bowels in the dining room. (She had an exterior bowel sack thing because of colon cancer). She just hiked up her dress, detached the bag, dumped it into a drinking glass, and carried on eating her dinner. :o When we told her that wasn't too appropriate and we could help her do it in the bathroom, she promptly waddled out of the dinning room, into the bathroom, and dumped the rest of the excrement onto the floor....... ::)
Good times?