Bedpans! How I dread to see a nurse with one!

[LifeOnHold]

I don't think there's anything I HATE as much as seeing a nurse walking down the unit with a bedpan in her hand... or seeing the white screens being rolled around someone's chair.

Dealing with escaping gas from neighboring patients and nurses is bad enough, but when someone is actually excreting a mere five feet from my snack, it's enough to make me want to yank my needles out myself and get the hell out of there! (Not to mention tossing the now-polluted snack in the garbage... thanks, Mr. Smith... for the THIRD TIME this week!)

As if the noises and bright lights in the unit weren't a big enough assault, the added offensive odors bring a whole new dimension of misery to dialysis.  What's worse is when you have 'repeat offenders'-- people who for some reason get a big kick out of making the nurses clean them up and will deliberately overeat right before dialysis to ensure that they will need the bedpan.  I'm all for dumping liquid Immodium into their cups of water.  Of all of the things that irritate me about dialysis, having to smell someone's bowel movement tops the list.

[O in]

for the life of me i cannot understand why that is done it would NEVER

[O in]

for the life of me i cannot understand why that is done it would NEVER EVER be considered in a NZ hemo unit

u want 2 crap u get taken off and go to the toilet

u yanks surely are a strange lot

oin

[LifeOnHold]

The reason the nurses give is that the person is either bedridden, or their pressure is too low to let them walk to the toilet.  I once needed the bathroom and they pulled that 'we don't like your blood-pressure' baloney, and I held it until the end of the treatment.  No way was I using that bedpan in a room with 12 other patients plus six nurses!

[Epoman]

for the life of me i cannot understand why that is done it would NEVER EVER be considered in a NZ hemo unit

u want 2 crap u get taken off and go to the toilet

u yanks surely are a strange lot

oin

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[CAPD]

And you do nice ones, do you?