Comments on: Poopmeister

By: arzt4empfaenger

arzt4empfaenger — Tue, 01 May 2012 10:48:51 +0000

Okay, now I definitely know that I’m suited for forensics(which stinks!), since I read that while eating chicken soup, and didn’t even blink.

Strangely enough, I can tolerate all sorts of stank from dead people. It’s when living people stink that I get the dry heaves. So I do not envy you, but you earn a medal(without brown tint) for helping this poor man.

By: Felix Kasza

Felix Kasza — Thu, 26 Apr 2012 20:33:27 +0000

LOL! Reminded me of Head Nurse who, in 2004, posted a story titled “Head Nurse: Now With More Poop” at http://head-nurse.blogspot.com/2004/10/ill-get-to-it-i-swear.html.

I mean, with phrases like “If the government is ever looking for a cheap, easy way to put people into low-earth orbit without a spacecraft, I recommend magnesium citrate and a hose”, what’s not to like?

By: Steve

Steve — Sat, 21 Apr 2012 21:00:11 +0000

Did it once as an intern. Never again. Poop is my anti-Christ. I order a liter soap suds enema, usually does the trick.

By: misspudding

misspudding — Thu, 15 Nov 2007 05:40:55 +0000

Dude, that’s awesome! Okay, I don’t mean really, but…damn. How can the body not get rid of something like that?

By: Chrysalis Angel

Chrysalis Angel — Thu, 15 Nov 2007 01:48:50 +0000

I hadn’t eaten, but I darn near spewed my tea when I read “Well, when I walked into the room, it looked like a couple of monkeys had been in a poo fight.”

I’m with you…Why on earth do they wait to do something for that long? I don’t miss those days of removing those! I hope you don’t mind if I add you to my blogroll.

By: SeaSpray

SeaSpray — Wed, 14 Nov 2007 21:29:37 +0000

Ali what you said about being a seasoned nurse is so true-earing amidst the gross stuff.

One night while watching a detective show in the 80′s with my husband (before I worked in the hospital)the two detectives bought hot dogs from a street vendor in the city and then started eating them while discussing a horrible crime. I blurted out to my husband “OH…HOW could they DO THAT?” It didn’t take me long after working with the ED (exposed to the physical situations) and being in on the conversations or the cafeteria conversations at mealtime before I could disassociate the act of eating with the conversations. I was eating when white coat warned me and continued through the story. Of course if I was actually there with the ambiance of the moment…I doubt I could. That really is “the” worst poo story ever!

What gets me in the blogs is when I am drinking something and someone throws in a surprise exquisitely funny one liner.

Boy…like I said poor housekeeping.

By: WhiteCoat

WhiteCoat — Wed, 14 Nov 2007 21:03:44 +0000

I agree that there ought to be a special CPT code for doing this in the ED. Wishful thinking.
Oh, do I wish I had the creativity to make something like this up. I could have sent you the shirt I used, but it went straight from plastic bag to bleach in the washer.
In my experience, enemas just don’t remove the “clay” stool. Work great for soft impactions, but not much help for hard impactions.
As far as making the nurses do it – if they wanted to, I’d let them, but I haven’t had many takers to this point. I might joke around about it, but I wouldn’t force something like this on them. They have enough to put up with.
It was funny, though when I walked out of the room and told the nurse that the room needed to be cleaned down, the nurse called the tech in to do it. The tech promptly picked up the phone and called housekeeping. Housekeeping arrived and just gave me the scowl – like I was the poo-flinging cause of all of this!

By: Kat

Kat — Wed, 14 Nov 2007 16:36:32 +0000

So just out of curiosity, why didn’t you administer an enema instead of manually disimpacting the patient?

Props to you for doing that…

By: ali

ali — Wed, 14 Nov 2007 16:01:09 +0000

jerry-i’ve actually done it( i’m an rn on a medical floor) but i got into trouble after-apparently it’s policy that nurses don’t we could cause harm.

By: ali

ali — Wed, 14 Nov 2007 15:58:36 +0000

well we just confirmed i’m a seasoned nurse! i read that post while eating chocolate ice cream-didn’t bother me in the least! oh-and been there-particularly the part where the entire room is covered in poo. 15 minutes before my shift ended!