Puke vs. poo and all other bodily fluids

[DCJenn]

So, Jenn's post has me thinking-

Do you all get sqeamy when having to deal with the various "joys" of parenthood?

My poor husband CANNOT do puke (and who got puked on- with Stouffer's Spinach Souffle- last week?) He is one of the "sympathetic pukers" as Kelly described them.

I can pretty much handle everything, maybe because I've done healthcare for so long. (now DOG puke, that just about does me in.) but that means that I inevitably am the one cleaning th kitty litter and walking the dog and changing diapers, etc. (Poo Queen of DC, thank you very much.)

Rick is much better dealing with human ick than animal ick though.

Anyone else all skeevy out there?

Jenn

I get squeamish with kid puke because I start worrying that it is a super contagious bug and that I am next on the list. Otherwise I usually do ok.

[Gwendolyn]

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Yeah!! Puke and Poo!!

oops that was my inner 8-year old. I can do it all, but every once and a while there is a smell that is overwhelming and I can't help but gag a bit.

DH doesn't do any of that stuff. I will make him fish out the poo from the tub if DS is so inclined. Although now that DS is a bit older that joy has, I think, left my life until we have another child.

I am FAR better with dealing with human ick than animal. I can pretty much handle anything my kids can dish out (or produce, as the case may be). If it comes from another human, though, I have a very low tolerance.

If my dh even TRIES to claim he's grossed out, I remind him that he is a pathologist and, well, ... I call bullsh*T on that!

Animal stuff (kitty litter, dog poo pick up) REALLY grosses me out, and I gag, lots. So I TRY to avoid such things at all costs.

I can handle anything that comes out of my son, but if it comes out of someone else.... ::. Nothing really phases my husband except for when he has to drain abscesses. Annie & Luanne, I don't know how you nurses do it! I felt so sorry for my L&D nurse after my OB broke my water. Yuck!

[SueC]

Nah, I can pretty much deal with any of it. That is, if it has come from my animal or child. The other day I went to my daughter's kindergarten class and one of the little girls told me she felt like she was going to throw up--I led her to the trash can where she proceeded to puke. That made me want to hurl, but it wouldn't have phased me if it had been my kid.

[mommax3]

I am on the squeamish side, which of course I use to my advantage.....but I can deal pretty well with poop and pee. Other kids' poopy diapers can set me off a little, but I just hold my breath and try to be very efficient. Puke I can't do......I am a sympathy puker as well.

Animal stuff....again, poop I can deal with......puke is harder.

DH can do it all without batting an eye, so this is his area if he is home. The only thing that ever "got him" during his training was dealing with some poor diabetic at the VA whose foot was rotting off. The smell "got to him a little bit."

BTW, total tangent, but did you all know that when a woman in labor poops, it is commonly known amongst the docs and nurses as "the ugly twin"? That makes me laugh every time I think of it.

Sally

I learned something new today.

BTW, total tangent, but did you all know that when a woman in labor poops, it is commonly known amongst the docs and nurses as "the ugly twin"? That makes me laugh every time I think of it.

Sally

My husband would refer to it as "the special delivery before the big delivery", but the ugly twin is much better!

[HeartRN]

I can't believe that I didn't know the "ugly twin" thing!!! I guess that's cuz I haven't been an OB nurse...

I can do it all, and I've had way too much practice, too, esp. when it comes from people >70 kg. Ugh...the body fluid piece is definitely one part of the ICU job I DON'T miss!!! It really only was difficult when 1)I was early in pregnancy *bleh*...dry heaves and eye watering every day at work and 2) adult sputum....it just grosses me out, no matter how long I'm a nurse.....and to think I deal with lung patients now......go figure

[Cumberland]

I might agree with Marla, as a nurse I have far too much experience, but adult sputum can still do me in.

[Meenah]

It must be a nurse thing but adult sputum also gets to me, and we do bronchoscopies in our endoscopy lab!!!!!! better yet I'm marries to a pulmonologist!!!!
Luanne

[houseelf]

I am the sympathetic puker in chief. I AM getting better with my own kids, however. Last time it happened I remember marveling at the arc my son's vomit made as it splattered on the wall several feet away. Now that is an amazing physiological feat.

Actually, both my brother and me have an overly refined gag reflex. It is a little embarrassing. I didn't earn the nickname "two beers Sears" for nothing!

I can't even read half of DH's power point talks that have pictures of tumors growing out of mice and the like. :: He has to go through those slides real fast or I get queasy.

Kelly

[samssugarmomma]

I can handle what my child produces but no one elses.

I am getting more tolerant though...probably because all three of us were sick in December and I had a lot of 'practice'.

Oh, Laura!