permission to poop granted!

fafine · Mar 28, 2012

Flare you are so right on with this one, i work in a school setting too and know exactly what you mean..you cracked me up though ..:)

oklahomagal · Mar 28, 2012

I was and always have been a private pooper. Until I had the stomach virus a month or so ago. good LORD!!! I went anywhere I could get to!! I had my best friend (also a nursing student) and my boyfriend who is a physical therapist assistant over at my house when I got it and well they got subjected to my moaning and groaning all day over pooping.. LOL now I am alot more ok with pooping anywhere.

TiffyRN, BSN, PhD · Mar 28, 2012

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

My family blissfully had no hangups or issues with regularity. I had to be educated on what regularity was and why a nurse would track a patient's last bowel movement when I was in nursing school. I remember being completely mystified once by the suggestion I go try to have a BM. I was a child having stomach cramps and I thought my teacher was crazy. The cramps passed without incident, and without incident, but it was only years later that I realized that teacher had a reasonable rationale for her suggestion.

canned_bread · Mar 28, 2012

I'm embarrassed to admit, but something similar happened happened to me (yes, ME) when I was about 18. I woke up one morning in INCREDIBLE PAIN. I thought oh crap I have appendicitis or something horrid. The pain was so bad I rated it a 9/10, I was doubled up, I could barely breathe or talk. My dear mother took me to the doctor who palpated my abdomen and what not and said "you need to fart". I argued with the doctor saying "I AM IN THIS MUCH PAIN YOU CAN'T BE RIGHT! ORDER X-RAYS! ORDER ULTRASOUNDS! ORDER EVERYTHING IM DYING HERE! IV MORPHINE STAT". He wrote a prescription for I presume a de-gas cocktail, 2 hours later and a couple of feet added to the ozone layer and what do you know... PAIN BE GONE!

Sometimes the simplest things...

100kids, BSN, RN · Mar 28, 2012

I agree. I am always amazed at how many times a stomach ache is cured after I have them try to go in the bathroom.

BostonTerrierLover, BSN, RN · Mar 28, 2012

I wish we had a Nurse like you in school, our nurse would have said, no temp, go back to class, and don't play around on the way either! No porcelain thrown offers.

caretakerofkids, RN · Mar 28, 2012

I work in a small school. We have a one-stall staff bathroom that I refuse to go #2 in!! If you walk out after relieving yourself, everyone will know it was you!!! The other alternative isn't much better (in many ways worse) -- to use the students' restroom!!!! Everytime I go in the students' bathroom, there is a chorus of "Who's in here?" and "Hi, Miss Nurse!" The young students seem fascinated to see that the teachers/staff members actually use the bathroom. Some of the staff at my school use the term "courtesy flush" to describe what we do before we actually go #2 to mask any unflattering noises :bugeyes:

brillohead, ADN, RN · Mar 28, 2012

"Y'ever take a poop so big you gotta pass out cigars?" - Larry The Cable Guy

"Y'ever take a dump so huge that your pants fit better afterward?" - Ron White (the "ya can't fix stupid" guy)

We talk about poop pretty freely at our house. When he was about 8-9yo, my son came up with the phrase "dropping a salmon" from somewhere. The other night I told him that I "just dropped a whole school of minnows instead of a salmon" (I have had lifelong constipation issues). He rolled his eyes at me. Evidently it's crass when I say it, but funny when he says it?

Vespertinas · Mar 29, 2012

I Some of the staff at my school use the term "courtesy flush" to describe what we do before we actually go #2 to mask any unflattering noises

Where I come from, a courtesy flush is when you flush in between a long visit so neighbors in a public restroom don't have to smell your lingering deposits.

BostonTerrierLover, BSN, RN · Mar 29, 2012

Man, how did one "Verb" get sooooo many Synonyms.

(No, I won't bless us with all the names, we know them.)

BostonTerrierLover, BSN, RN · Mar 30, 2012

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.

In my total 12 years of elementary and secondary school, I was never able to have a "poop" at school. I don't know if it's the atmosphere, the privacy, or the unlockable doors, but never could. Lots of miserable days. Never ate breakfast.

My favorite restrooms (public) are the ones at restaurants that play the loud music in the bathrooms, and are pumping out the airfreshener! No need to flush for sound control!!! And the music helps your concentration!!!!!

caregiver1977 · Mar 31, 2012

Flare, I can't understand why YOU have to tell these students this. Why isn't the teacher suggesting this? It certainly doesn't take an advanced nursing degree to know that the child may need to poop (or does it, nowadays?). I work in a classroom and I suggest this to the children all the time. Sometimes they have to go; sometimes they don't.