Babies haven't learned dignity yet; they don't care. But it must be humiliating for a grown person to have to be cleaned and diapered.
As for that, it might be the grossest job, but someone who does it compassionately would be a hero in my book!
As someone that works in nursing homes on a regular basis, I can attest to the fact that there is a whole lot of shit going on there.
For the most part, it doesn't really bother me much to have to clean a person up that can't do for themselves, but there are times that it can get pretty darn raunchy and disgusting, even for me.
It is especially bad when you are dealing with someone that you know is infected with a highly contagious intestinal bacteria (some of which are resistant to antibiotics).
Since I work for a nursing service on an as-needed basis, I do tend to lean toward taking assignments in hospitals more often than the nursing homes simply because usually the patients in the hospitals only need assistance with walking to the bathroom, or using a bed pan, and maybe some help in wiping...but it is a far cry from some of the messes you can find yourself trying to clean up on someone wearing a diaper.
I know that alot of people have changed some pretty nasty diapers on babies, as have I--but when it is an adult in the diaper, you can't just grab them by the ankles and sling their legs up in the air and start swiping. It can get complicated. Believe me. _______Always looking out for number two!
I don't know about the grossest, but the most thankless is that of the shitter himself (or herself, whatever.)When was the last time that you pinched off a loaf that was the pinnacle of shit perfection, flushed it, and had someone come up to you, shake hands, and heartily congratulate you on a load well dumped? Look at all the preparation involved. You drive to the grocery store, pick up food, take it home, prepare it, and consume it. Your bowel ceaselessly labors to convert it to shit. Your colon passes it to the humble rectum, which in turn births this little log. This doesn't even take into account the cost of gas to get to the store and back, the resources used to get the food to the market in the first place, nor the expense of installing facilities to handle the postproduction shit. I say let's have a national holiday to celebrate those nameless masses who daily give a shit!
Firstly, great comment Anomalous. Secondly, I voted for the port-a-crapper/septic tank pumper, as that is the closest job to the sewage tank divers mentioned by SamDamnit!._______Yes, those are my brown spots. Yes, those are your walls.
Of the choices there, I picked for school janitor. I went to school just like the rest of us, and we all know what a festering mess people can leave, not because they can't do much about it, but just to be evil. Port-a-potties are very very nasty, and that would be my next choice, but I have seen some stuff at school that just takes the cake and drives it home. _______Damnit, someone stole my signature!
Motherload, like you, I've worked in a home, though not one dedicated for elderly care only. It was actually an asylum. There were people of all ages and different degrees of mental retardation and other mental disabilities. We had residents there that are probably very similar to some patients you have worked with at a nursing home.
The ones that were in a vegetative state were actually the most difficult to care for. Imagine adult men and women 300lbs + (we had one man that weighed upwards of 400lbs) who are completely non-responsive and cannot move themselves. We would have to change their diapers, get them out of bed and onto a bathroom chair, shower them, put a clean diaper on them, transfer them to their wheelchair, clothe them, feed them, medicate them, change their diapers throughout the day, and make sure they had some kind of stimulus like reading to them, playing music for them, holding up picture books... they didn't even know or recognize anything that happened around them, but all of that had to be done.
The worst part was changing the diapers. These people are dead weight, so maneuvering their bodies in order to get all the poop off was not easy. Adult poop also doesn't smell like baby poop. I considered it a good day if all I did was gag a little bit.
You've done that for years, it sounds like. I salute you for that. You're a better woman than I am.
I didn't realize how long that post was. Sorry about that.
I'd have to say the nursing home attendant choice is the nastiest poopy job. My mom worked as a laundry aide in a nursing home for a year or so and when a nasty virus made its way thru the home she would come home and immediately shower and throw her clothes in the washing machine right away and then proceed to tell us all about it. What shocked her the most about the shit plagues that ripped thru, was that some of the patients were still being given prune juice! Can you imagine what prune juice squirts must be capable of???? The stench! The coverage!!!!! **shudders at the mental image**
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Definitely the nursing home job!
Sorry but the thought of having to wipe an old persons arse makes me wretch, not a job for me
'Cocoon' duty in the nursing home wins in my book. The patience that that would require would certainly challenge Job. So I guess you could say that that's a job for Job. I have always admired those in the nursing profession. It takes a special person to deal with all that they have on their plate. Which includes bedpans.
CHANGING TODDLERS DIAPERS IN DAYCARE. SOME DONT STAY STILL WHEN YOU WIPE COCA FROM THEIR BUTTS.
I'll go with nursing home. The guys who pump the septic tank are usually protected by special suits and don't actually touch any of the... product. Changing toddlers is not that gross, and I've worked as a pooper scooper and the job is hardly gross (except when a dog had worms or bloody diarhea).
Nursing home takes the cake (and poops it out) because most of these people have been around long enough to catch all sorts of gross cancers and diseases.
I have changed my grandfather's adult diapers and it was a pain in the ass. Mostly this was because he no longer had the strength to hold himself up, so it was a job to pick him up, remove the diaper, wipe his ass, let him crap the rest out on the toilet, wipe his ass again, and change the diaper. I got poop on my hands several times. My hands grew raw and cracked just from me washing them like crazy. (We didn't have any gloves.) _______"That was a very disappointing party. I showed up and everyone left!"- Camille
I agree changing toddler's diapers is at times consuming, some will not even let you clean them well. I was once in charge of six toddlers, and each child had to be changed at least 3 times per day. I had 5 boys. I cannot begin to tell you the boys would not stay still, I used to get poop on my fingers, also there would be poop that traveled to private areas, gross. I can still remember the Dirty diapers and dirty pull-ups, what a memorable smell, and the mess with in them!
nursing home diaper changes is the worstest of them
I voted the dog shit one. Nothing worse at all!!
I've changed baby and todler diapers, and am kinda used to that since I worked in a daycare a few years back.
Our daycare was located in a college campus building and one day a guy came to our daycare and was almost on the verge of tears. I could smell almost instantly that he had pooped, however he shamefully told me that he had a diaper on and needed help or a ride home. he started to cry. I took him to a utility closet area and got some wipes and changed him. I felt sorry for the guy, he must have been in his early thirties. After changing him (he had another diaper with him to change into) I told him that if he needed help again, to just come by and I'd help him. I guess he had a medical condition. He also may have been blind because his eyes moved around and he bumped into a couple things as i took him towards the utility closet area. He never came back. I think he changes his own most of the time, but that day he was quite a mess... so I don't blame him for seeking help. I can't say it was the grossest diaper, but it was the most awkward, mainly for him.
I can only imagine (though I don't want to for long) changing an old person's diaper, for all the above mentioned reasons posted by others.
Well anyway, thought I'd share my story of the time I changed a 30 somethings poopie diaper.
-Tiffany-
PS: http://tdt.abstories.com/ has a username/password of abyuser/babybottle
diaper stories and some poopie stories. I've been an author for a number of years. not sure if anyone is interested but I thought this is as good a place as any to share something of that nature. (huggies)
Hmmmm. Maybe I interpreted the question wrong, but I picked the porta-potty/septic tank job and I have worked as a home health aide and a nurses aide in a Nursing Home. I guess I felt that although changing adult diapers and washing elderly people in the shower as they are both sitting and shitting is a pretty sucky job, there is more to the job than that. As for the tank pumpers, although they are protected, they are dealing with shit day in and day out. The gross factor has to increase with the amount of shit you see every day. Also, the old person in a Home may have a disease or infection but at least you know the person who's butt your wiping. Imagine the septic pumper who deals with thousands of gallons of "unknown" poo. That is scarier in my eyes!
Cleaning the porta-pottys at a burrito festival.
Obviously nursing home attendant. My wife worked at a nursing home several years ago, and some of the poop stories she told me are enough to make sure I never go to a nursing home myself.
Another one not mentioned is just a plain babysitter. We watched our young nephew last night and he pooped while he was asleep. My wife helped him clean up and she was gagging while she was doing it. Just a plain nasty job.
A bad poop-related job would be animal rehabber. Nothing says gross like having a vulture poop on you, while he vomits on you, and then you vomit. Oh wait, that was me._______.....hugging bunnies since 1969 www.daphneszoo.com
daphne- I agree with you. Nothing is worse than having your dog puke on the floor at the same time you're cleaning up his shit.
Maybe I should just get a goldfish
I would totally be a porto potty cleaner, pumpin hot steamy piles of a variety of shit sounds exciting. I used to do contruction and we all used to see how high we could get the pile to the rim, Good times.
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