I can take virtually anything - suppurating wounds, vile sputum, vomit - you name it but the other day I totally grossed out.
The patient I had was vented and sweaty so I wiped his hair and when I took the cloth away there they were - about 1 mm long and engorged with blood!!!
And Active!!! They were racing across the cloth toward my arm!
I moved fast to ditch the lot in the bin but......
AAARRGGG!!!
My head immediately started to itch. But guess whose job it was to remedy the situation? Moi! Came home and peeled out of my uniform - it went straight into the washing machine - I jumped into the shower with the head lice treatment and even after all of that still felt itchy.
Now confess - how many of you reading this are starting to scratch???