A couple years ago I had a patient that was alert and oriented (or at least I thought she was). She kept having diarrhea throughout my shift, so I’d keep putting her on and off the bedpan. There were some moments that we were a little too late and it would be on the sheets so I’d changed them. I had no problem with this in the beginning but after awhile you start to get pooped out (literally).

Well in the middle of the night I went into the room to check on her and I noticed that the tubing to the yanker (plastic wand used at the dentist to suck up oral secretions) was dark in color so I turned on the light to examine it. Well to my surprise the lady but the yanker by her butt and was sucking up all the liquid stool. I almost lost it. I couldn’t even say anything I was laughing so hard in disgust… I love nursing.