permission to poop granted!

[Flare]

ah, it never ceases to amaze me when kids come into my office nearly doubled over with a stomach ache and i'll gently suggest they use my bathroom and try to move their bowels... then lordy mercy they are miraculously cured! Some times it's like i'm performing miracles in here! :thankya: lol

[sharpeimom]

until a few months ago when the family left the program, my husband mentored two brothers for nearly six years -- from ages

six and seven on. the older boy would poop or pee anywhere he was when the urge hit him while the younger boy could not and

would not do either anywhere but their one bathroom at home. it was a strange and weird family!

by last year, the older kid's inappropriate behavior had ceased, but the younger one's hadn't changed much. his grandma still

gives him frequent laxatives and enemas.:eek: he will not eat fruit or drink any juice and their diet is high fat and almost entirely

preprocessed food.

[sdlane]

Horrible feeling, easy solution !

[prmenrs, RN]

There does seem to be an unwritten 'rule' that kids don't want to boo-boo when other kids are around to say eewww, yuck, so-and-so is pooping!!!

We had a restroom right next to our break room! It was a no-no to do anything but pee quietly! You could here everything. And every year when the new residents came in, one of the attendings took them in and told them the rules--esp the one about not leaving the seat up.

[MinnieMomRN]

I agree that there's nothing like the home throne advantage - but when ya gotta go, ya gotta go!

Oh Flare! You are on a roll today!

(pun intended)

:rotfl:

[Armygirl7]

I used to need the home field advantage for proper elimination. It definitely led to some constipation problems! It must've been a shame thing - from potty training years, who knows! In retrospect I think, why on earth be ashamed of pooping - EVERYONE POOPS as the kid's book says. But I was always unable to let go and poop unless at home.

Then several years ago I worked with a woman - absolutely gorgeous woman from Tennessee, always dressed to the nines and pulled together. She could take a dump in any bathroom at any time. She would walk out of the bathroom and rub her tummy and announce "Ahhhhhh. Good for the gut, good for the soul!" and if someone was going in after her she would just laugh and say "You might want to let that air out a few minutes!" with absolutely no shame and such good humor.

And just by embracing that attitude I was cured! Can poop pretty much anywhere anytime now aren't you glad to know ;-)

Good for the gut, good for the soul!

[VivaLasViejas, ASN, RN]

:rotfl: Wish I could say the same.......I don't care if OTHER people poop at work, but I avoid it like the plague! Every now and then it does happen, though, and with my luck, there's usually someone waiting outside the bathroom.

I've learned to apologize and even joke about it---"You might want to wait for a few minutes, it smells like a barnyard in there"--but usually I just leave the fart fan on and try to sneak out unobserved. Thankfully, our bathroom fans are very powerful......but I remember the staff bathroom at the hospital, which was the size of a broom closet and had no fan at all. It was also situated RIGHT BEHIND THE NURSES STATION, so patients, doctors, families, and nursing staff alike could easily hear what was happening in there.

[ChristinP]

I'm currently working in a high school health room it doesn't change with age :) our very old poorly designed office only has one bathroom so we save it for the "really" sick kids and send the poopers to the public bathrooms! All I can say is thank God for febreeze when they sneak past us!

[Pudnluv, ASN, RN]

I am another one who simply can't poop at work. First, I hardly have the time, and secondly, I like to relax while pooping. My boyfriend tells me it is simply unnatural to go 12 or 13 hours without pooping, but I told him I was just a one a day kind of girl. We actually ended up googling if going poop once a day was normal, and yep, I'm right. Funny thing, my daughter who works in a nursing home, has absolutely no problems going at work, and will even announce it to her coworkers. So thankfully my hang ups didn't get passed down.

[Vespertinas]

Pudnluv, for many people it's even normal to go every other day!

My constipated story: I was in college and woke up with THE SHARPEST pains in my stomach. All I could do was crawl on the floor and pity myself and think I was dying. I had just spent the night at my boyfriend's house and honest to god (I'm sorry for the TMI) I thought maybe I had a lady partsl wall perf.

Went to the student clinic (ah the student clinic) where they felt my stomach and very anticlimactically told me I was constipated. That's it- no meds, no soap opera reaction, no final good-byes. I felt dumb.

[exnavygirl-RN]

"y'ever take a poop so big you gotta pass out cigars?" - larry the cable guy

[Creamsoda, ASN, RN]

I'm amazed at the nurses I work with who flat out refuse to take a poop at work! One was even doubled over in pain after eating and she just insisted on holding it until she got home!

I agree, I don't get it, you gotta go, you gotta go. Considering we all deal with patient poo on a regular basis...haha no pun intended, you'd think they wouldn't care so much about using the bathrooms at work.

[RNsRWe, ASN, RN]

This thread floored me: I never dreamed there were people who would refuse to use a certain toilet (like at work, or anywhere except home) if they had to move their bowels! At work, the staff restroom is right near the nurse's station, so I'm really not fond of it, but if I gotta go, I gotta go. I try to pee more quietly, LOL, that's true, but I'm not going to NOT poop if that's what's called for.