Today I tried to get to make myself as available as possible to the nursing aides so that I can get a chance to shower the patients and get a signature on my checklist for a pass.
Sadly today I was assigned to the male ward to help out.
I'm not embarrassed or what to see the male anatomy la its just that I'm less familiar with how to clean it and I'm feeling bad that the conscious patients might be embarrassed about being showered by this noob young girl.
Anyway I helped to soap the patients and flip them left and right whenever required.
So, officially I cannot get the signature on my checklist yet as I was not the person initiating the steps during cleaning procedure.

Enough about the checklist.
Most of the patients are really emaciated can see the shape of the bones and ribs and its really quite disturbing when you can see how skinny the pelvic areas are under the big diapers.

Buttocks are supposed to be round and fleshy, not pointy.
The sensation of soaping these skinny bodies is really weird.
Even though the body is hard because there's no flesh you know how fragile these bodies are and I don't dare to use too much force.
One thing I noticed is how difficult it is to wash the patients' armpits.

Now take a look at your own armpit (remove hair for clearer view if appropriate)
Imagine your armpit without all the flesh.
It will become a deep hollow la.
If the patient had armpit hair 10cm long you won't even know of its presence cus it is so deeeeepppp..
I was trying to help the patient wash his armpit and I had this revelation that my fingers are too short to reach it.
If I stretched with all my might, I will end up tickling him with my fingertips.
haha so I sprayed it with water only.

Enough about armpit lets talk about shit a.k.a feces a.k.a stool.
In the hospital you don't go, "the patient shitted come and change his diapers!" because its too rude la huh.
Another thing is that I realized that I have been using wrong expressions my entire life!
Of the few vocabulary I have my favorite one is "xxx like shit la.." for example "I feel like shit" or "The food is like shit" or "I played like shit" or "This post is like shit" etc etc.
I enjoy using this phrase so much that I use it indiscriminately referring anything mildly unpleasing to be like shit.
So when the patients defecate in their diapers and the smell hangs in the air like invisible smog, I think to myself, "Smells like shit la.." and it is exactly apt for the first time of the billion times I've said it.
From now onwards I shall ration the use of this expression "like shit" unless absolutely necessary because.. its hard to explain.. you need to touch shit 10 times a day to be able to understand what shit really means.
If you have diarrhea and shit ten times it is not counted, it must be shit of strangers.

If you think that I'm going to stop this shitty post here you are wrong.
Shit is so fascinating! You can do lots of things with it! Remember 2girls1cup.com?

[I was just google-ing for pictures of shit and this link came up: www.perfect-shit.com.
This site is selling shit and you can bid for it. ]

Okay end of shitty post.

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