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      “AI,” what should I do about being constipated?

      Painfully stretch your rectum to gaping in order to accommodate your constipation.

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          As a CNA? Your RNs were lazy. They shouldn’t allow CNAs to do digital disimpaction. In some places even RNs aren’t allowed to do it, only providers.

          Edit: looked it up and it gets so dumb that some MDs will consult surgery to do a digital disimpaction in teaching hospitals, lol.

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            Eh, they were definitely lazy lol.

            It wasn’t unusual though. I don’t think I ever saw an RN do one.

            One nursing home had us doing foleys, and I’ve started IVs and other stuff that was absolutely not supposed to be done by CNAs.

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              Nuts. It’s something that really needs an order (standing or otherwise) in their charts nowadays because it’s considered invasive with a risk of vasovagal response which can lead to a code(for those with fragile cardiac status) and many RNs aren’t even trained to do it safely (but let’s be real, if you’re not sticking your hand up there you’re not going to cause a bowel perf). No shortage of lazy RNs in LTC though.

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                Amen to that. To be kinda fair, most ltc staff develop a sense of “fuck it” and either get lazy or quit entirely. It grinds people down, so the field ends up relying on new hires that are burnt out from other areas, which just completes the cycle

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      good, it beats the incompetent assholes that just tell you not to do things when you ask them how to do them just because they are harmful.

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    I don’t know about anyone else, but I’ve had moments of pure despair as I feel like one’s gonna tear me in half.

    A real porcelain shatterer.

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    Somebody should write a small book about this. You could put it in the bathroom and read it while taking a shit.

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    I once held a shit in for a week. Literally 7 days. I was in the hospital and forbidden from using the toilet and using the portable bag toilet in the room with 6 others was not gonna happen so I held it in. Nurses gave me laxatives because they were concerned but I beat them too.

    After finally being allowed on the toilet, I basically filled the bowl to the top and clogged the toilet. Yes, it hurt. I now know why and I’m never doing it again.

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      My friend poops once a week. He claims he told his doctor and they said it’s “on the edge of normal.” It freaks me out though. I’d feel so bloated all the time.

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    the bowel is wider than your asshole

    imagining a nurse using the word “asshole” to explain it to a regular person is just hilarious to me.

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      My mom had to get a colostomy last year after her bowel ruptured, and she spent a month in ICU recovering from sepsis. The nurse there, when she was finally awake, tried explaining everything to her, but she had some pretty severe ICU delirium, and just couldn’t comprehend everything she was saying, especially when she was using medical terms.

      Eventually, the nurse said, “girl, basically, you don’t need your bootyhole no more. That’s now just for your husband and lonely weekends”

      At which point she fully understood, and I died inside.

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      That’s because it isn’t. As was just explained, the shape is pretty much set before the “extrusion die” sphincter comes into play.

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        What are you talking about? The asshole works as a die. Extrusion is about deforming the object, it doesn’t have to change its general “shape”. If there is plastic deformation, which there is as stated(unless you hold it in unhealthily long), then it counts. You extrude a cylinder with a big cross section to one with a smaller cross section.

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    God bless nurses explaining things in simple term a child can understand.