OK ewww

Let me preface this post. If you have any of these conditions do not read and if you do read then the outcome is not my fault because you were warned. 1.) nasty gag reflex. 2.) Dry heaves. Again you have been warned!


So today at work one of my residents died. Not bad. Sucks to start the shift off with a death but that is a part of the job. What comes next is icky. So a couple of weeks ago two residents got into it and one broke their hip. We all thought they pulled a muscle but actually it was a fracture. Well the other resident kicked the other and we had to send them to the ER where we learned about the fracture. Well this resident came back this past weekend and was so out of it it was crazy. So today I checked on them and they were breathing. 30 short minutes later they were not. Now I hate post mortem care like the rest of the staff but it has to be done. I had one of the other CNA's help because of what I found. Inside their mouth was some brown icky stuff. At that point I had no clue what it was. We first thought it was blood. Well when we rolled them it came out of their mouth and nose and it was poop. Yup an blocked bowel. This resident fell last night again and possibly caused this. No I can handle poop in its variety coming out of the correct end but when it comes out of the mouth that is totally different. The smell was so intense I was dry heaving, gagging and about to pass out. I told the other CNA that I would hold the resident if she cleaned up the mouth. Now here it is almost 9 hours later and the picture is still in my mind. I need something to take it out.