Things that gross you out..

I cannot handle phlegm. I hate when I'm walking and I see someone's fresh loogie on the ground, still wet and shiny. So I pretty much hate suction cannisters and trachs as well.

Nothing really grosses me out any more..........The First ass you ever wipe is like your first beer....you'll always remember it

I am not squeamish about much. I admit that the thought of poking people with needles worries me. Not because of the "heebies jeebies" but more the fact that I don't want to cause someone unnecessary pain. I think my main nemesis might be vomit. Especially it I witness someone vomiting. I have a very hard time squelching my own natural reflex to vomit myself. I am okay with everything else, but vomit... I know it will happen eventually and I hope I can fake it and deal with what I must deal with and not lose it myself.

I was afraid to give shots my first semester (I am heading into the second semester starting August 20th)...

My thought was what if I go to give the shot and the needle doesn't go in?! No worries, it will :)

stool samples. abnormal stool, greasy, snotty and really strong smells. most stuff I can handle, but some smells it makes one want to puke. Today I had green diarrhea today, i was ok with that, but snotty smelly stool. i am cool with baby poop too. I have to convince myself the stool sample is really important.

Check out some ortho surgery and open heart on youtube. bone and joint surgery can be hard to watch.

Rhinoplasty makes me squirm in my seat!

Eye stuff. Injuries to the eye and such. We had to discect a pig's eyeball for A&P and I wanted to just take the F, LOL. My sister is an optho tech and thinks it's hilarious to tell me the stories of what she sees in her office. Like the gal who was separating her mascara-clumped eyelashes with an open safety pin. GAH!

Eye stuff. Injuries to the eye and such. We had to discect a pig's eyeball for A&P and I wanted to just take the F, LOL. My sister is an optho tech and thinks it's hilarious to tell me the stories of what she sees in her office. Like the gal who was separating her mascara-clumped eyelashes with an open safety pin. GAH!

Oh heck no!! Seriously!!

Oh heck no!! Seriously!!

Yeppers! I knew ya'll figure out how THAT turned out! I had a coworker reach into her closet and pull a top off of a hanger and it spun around and the hook part landed right in her eye. Joan Crawford was really onto something when she believed in no wire hangers...

Someone with a trach. They try so hard to cough it out several times (oh just that wet, hollow, gunky sound) and BAM!! that really yellowish, green,stringy, gooey sputum shots out and gets all over that nice clean collar you just changed, and when you wipe it up it just smears everywhere... GAG GAG!!

The only thong I have come across that has made me weak in the knees was on an elderly lady that was admitted for pneumonia but upon doing her assessment I found a 3" deep wound on her thigh filled with maggots and flies. The smell literally knocked me back. Made me extremely grateful for our wound care nurse!!

I can't stand anything respiratory related. Trachs, vents, ew. I spent some time on a respiratory unit and it was soooo disgusting. I can't even imagine wanting to be a respiratory therapist.

Oh, and I think the word sputum is the grossest word ever.

Sputum

Skin flakes from a patient ending up on me. *shudders*

Adult BMs - the soft, squishy kind, but I can deal, I just wish that I was anywhere else

Any stomas. I'm sorry, but they creep me out.

Anything prolapsed

C.diff is the worst!! The smell is absorbed into your skin and clothes I swear!!