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  • Have gloves, will travel reads the card of a man!

  • You sure? I'm told I have a reassuring voice that almost makes it an enjoyable process

  • Lmao! If only it could be improved.

    I always hated doing them, not because of the nature of the job but because even when I was younger, my hands (and therefore fingers) were on the large side. Large hands means large fingers. I guess you can see where that would be a detrimental trait for impaction removal lol.

    At one point, I wore a size 15 ring and my company had to special order gloves for me. And that was roughly around the same time as that patient. So the fingers I had to use were bigger than 15 by a good bit. Plus, I was still lifting some, but had taken up a casual practice of what's called iron palm training. That's where you repeatedly slam your hands into things to make them tougher. That's an exaggeration, it isn't all that harsh, but still.

    So I ended up telling the one company I worked for that I really needed to not be doing them. The supervisor at the time was a pretty great lady, but she didn't quite get the issue. I took a risk and just slapped my hand down on the desk with my index and middle fingers out and asked her if she'd like me to help her clear her bowels. It worked! I cleared her bowels and got a raise.

    Nah, that last part is obviously a joke, but I did get her cooperation lol

  • I've been on the opposite side of that, with a human patient.

    Was providing some care that required me to support the patient with one hand while doing some less than comfortable work (impaction removal). The patient's daughter was rubbing his shoulder, only my hand was there, so she was actually rubbing my wrist.

    She didn't realize it until I had to shift my position with that hand and warned her I was going to be moving. Like you, she got embarrassed and apologized. I just shrugged and said it was no biggie, I would have said something but I was concentrating and needed the moral support. Which turned it into a mutually humorous thing, so we had a good laugh.

  • Don't forget the Tick and that one BPRD agent in the Hellboy movie

  • Brobdingnagian

    It's a reference to the giants of Brobdingnag from Gulliver's travels. It means that something is absurdly large. It is also a large word making it delightful in that way. It also rolls off the tongue musically.

    Coming in a close second is petrichor or petrichorian.

    Petrichor is the word for the smell of the earth right after a rain. Petrichorian obviously means that something smells similar, or can be used to reference petrichor. I love the word for multiple reasons. First that it just sounds wonderful. Second that there's a word for describing this one specific smell that is a universal human experience to anyone not anosmic out of all other smells that are similarly universal.

    Third that it approaches onomatopoeia on that it sounds like the way the smell smells. The earthy petri combined with the grounded ring of chor (pronounced like core, and references that the smell is a core thing of rain and earth) is the verbal sound of the way the smell tickles the nose and makes many people walk around sniffing like hounds on a walk through the woods after weeks in the city.

    Petri chor. It's like the tinging of raindrops off of a piece of granite or marble in the mountains while you shelter under a tree and revel in the scents of it all.

    I mean, it's no Brobdingnagian, but as words go petrichor is a bit magical. It invokes and evokes almost as much as tintinnabulation, but does so for a smell, which is so much harder to do. That, btw, is an excellent word: tintinnabulation. Of the bells, bells, bells, which may be the most enjoyable poem to read aloud, ever.

    There's some other words that have the ability to invoke phantoms of their related senses. Cadaverine and putrescine come to mind; both names of chemicals involved in the putrescent smells of decomposition of flesh. Knowing their meaning brings forth memories of their smells. Not quite as effective in that, because you do have to know what they mean for the incantation to work, but still quite wonderful words. Sulfurous is similarly scent summoning. Flinty works as well, but is less musical as it resonates in the oral cavity and echoes off the teeth.

    Look, I can do this all day. There's a word for people like me: logophile. There's a fancy word for people that are into words. How awesome is that?!

    Oh, that ?! Even has a word! The interrobang! Ain't English awesome?!

    And yes, at this point, the entire comment is sigogglin' (or sigoggly, or sigoggledy depending on where in the Appalachians you are), which is a twisty and crooked word for something that is twisty and crooked.

    Loquacious, no?

  • Believe in it?

    Nothing to believe in, it's a word that describes an evaluation of events on a subjective level.

    Person does bad thing, bad thing happens, other people decide that the bad thing was good because it happened to the bad person.

    Secondary to that, they believe that the bad person's actions led to the bad thing happening to them.

    Comeuppance isn't the same thing as fate, karma, or doom, all of which do require abelief in external forces. It just means that people think any bad things that happened are appropriate

  • No, the usual cycle most people run is changing their sheets weekly, assuming nothing makes it necessary sooner. It does vary some, I've seen households that change sheets monthly or less often, but damn.

    Making the bed is a daily task, and that's the assumption I was working on in the comment

  • It's harder than it was before I needed bifocals, but yeah.

    Once you learn the trick of it, it gets easier to do.

    I wanna say I was late teens/early twenties when they first started showing up in my area, and I stood in the store I first saw one for like a half hour trying to see the image. My vision was kinda bad across the board, even then. But I got the first one, which was a boat, and then flipped through the rest of the selection they had, maybe five or six different ones?

    But any time I got new glasses, it would take a few minutes to adjust when I'd run across one again. Same if I needed new ones.

    They really are fun

  • But, but a fediverse without trolls is like an egg without salt; yeah, you can eat them, but they don't return the favor and leave you wanting to shove something into them.

  • Horse shit, there's a few regular commentors that do their best with every question they can, and even more that contribute irregularly but in good faith, even if they fall short of accuracy.

  • I feel that!

    I roll armed everywhere, and I would be all "yo, you got this! Ima nap, we cool?" And be snoring before they could even swivel my way.

    Napping under unusual circumstances is my special power.

  • Well, I've dealt with insomnia since I was a kid to some degree, and as a teenager to a significant degree. I've kinda got a list.

    The first thing I try is meditation. It's a solid way to shift brain waves to begin with, and often leads to improved rest even if I don't get back to sleep at all. So I always recommend at least laying still and breathing controlled patterns. Doesn't matter much what style of breathing you do, it's the control and regularity of it that helps being better rested. Half an hour of that, and 4/10 times I'm back to sleep. The rest of those, I'm usually at least feeling like I had another hour or two, so I can either get up, or switch off to other things.

    Reading has been a lifelong help since it doesn't bother anyone else and for me it's almost a form of meditation of its own. So that's usually what I'll try if I still want to try to sleep more. It works fairly well. Out of those remaining 6/10, it usually gets me back to sleep 3 or 4 more times.

    The rest though, I'm usually going to give up. When I was single, that meant maybe getting up and just starting my day, or fucking around doing what I could do without waking housemates. That's where devices like phones and tablets have been a huge help. I can play games, fuck around on lemmy or whatever and not disturb my wife at all, much less anyone else. Sometimes I'll throw on some headphones while doing so and listen to music.

  • That's one where it's optional, but doing it or not has different benefits/drawbacks.

    Benefits of doing it are the inspection factor; making sure they're both clean and dry, as well as undamaged. Then there's the storage factor where folded clothes take up less space. They'll also be less wrinkled, but that's a matter of style rather than a true benefit to the clothing

    However, not folding them gives you the option to save time, and there's a lower chance any difficulties will arise from stagnant air because the looser the clothes are, the better air flow they have. So there's less funk from any missed soil, less environmental impact from things like smoking or cooking, and more time for any laundry product smells to dissipate.

    Pretty minor stuff overall, and nothing that really matters

  • Preach! We should be way past the silliness of body hair choices being open for other's opinions. It took my sasquatch looking ass a while to get there for myself, but there's still social pushback that just pisses me off. I'm glad you found your balance :)

  • I'm on the fence about the popularity of this opinion, so I'll upvote after I respond.

    But you missed out in your data gathering. There are other reasons to make a bed, if not daily, at least regularly.

    First, my bonafides. Twenty years as a nurse's assistant. That meant making beds and taking care of the people in them was my responsibility.

    As such, I not only had to wonder if it was more than just an optics thing, but make sure that if it wasn't, I was following best practices. See, if there were reasons to do it beyond those you listed, it would shift priorities, as well as maybe changing when and how I did the job.

    Comfort is only part of it, though it isz a factor when a person can't shift their own linens.

    See, those folds of fabric can, and do, apply pressure to skin differently than flat sections. So remaking a patient's bed becomes a necessity. Matter of fact, it becomes necessary to check their linens while performing care, though that's tangential.

    Secondary to that is dislodging anything on the sheets. This includes, but is not limited to, particles of dirt, dead skin, lint, items dropped previous to the bed check, and more. That's the factor that matters most for people that can make their own beds. You don't really realize how much stuff is on the sheets just from one night of use unless you make beds regularly.

    There's a sub-reason to that as well. Evaluation. While a lot of people do change sheets on a schedule, often timed with laundry day or days, there may be need to change sheets in between times. No way to be aware of that necessity if it's from an unknown cause unless you check the sheets. And there's no better way to check them than the process of making a bed. Smoothing things out allows to to both visually and tactilely examine the condition of the sheets.

    Now, I can almost guarantee someone reading this is thinking "but I don't do anything nasty in my sheets". Yes, you do. Promise. Everyone does, they just don't know it. Even climbing in fresh out of the shower and not moving after, you're leaving stuff behind when you climb out again. May take longer to build up, but it's there.

    All those little bits you leave behind are food. Food for something. Mites, bacteria, fungi, whatever. So no matter how clean you are, making your bed at least decreases what's left behind.

    Making a bed properly does take time. Not a whole lot, and practice makes it faster, but it's more than just throwing the top sheets back in place.

    So, I would encourage folks to take the time to at least smooth their sheets out a little before they climb in, if nothing else.

  • Just for the hell of it, I don't know about OP, but I don't even know how to.

    I went to the relevant linked section and couldn't find a way to raise an issue directly. I'm going to try again, and if I succeed I'll return here and make a top level comment for anyone scrolling by and wondering. I've never tried to do this before, so I'll see how it goes.

    Edit: aha!

    You have to go to the issues page and select the "new issue" button, where you'll be directed to log in to github.

    Which, for me, means I'm finished trying. No desire whatsoever to have another login for a one time thing. If I ever manage to learn enough code to do anything like this often enough, I'd do it, but it just isn't worth it to satisfy my curiosity about the process.

  • People are fucking weird. There's also prudes and morons that assume any contact at all has to be some kind of horror.

    But we're supposed to teach our kids how to clean and manage their bodies. That's the job; we do it for them when they're too young to do it themselves, or if something temporarily/permanently disables them from doing so.

    It isn't weird to help with genital care under those circumstances either. You gotta teach kids how to wash their junk, and if they want/need to change their pubic hair, it's part of the job to discuss it, decide if it's the right choice at that point, and if the mutually agreed answer is yes, to teach them how not to screw up.

    For real, who else is supposed to? You gonna hire a nurse or nurse's assistant to teach them? That's weird, and there aren't any specialists in aesthetics that are going to agree to it in most circumstances when the kid is under the local age of consent. Too much risk.

    And even that assumes that the kid is going to be okay with a stranger helping them with their genitals. Not every kid would be. For me, there's no way I'm going to have a total stranger fiddling with my kid's junk for non medical reasons, even if the kid was alright with it.

    You did the job, end of story.

  • This is all you fucking do. These shitty little comments that are supposed to look like irony, but are empty and mindless.

    What's the deal? Why have you put in that much time on lemmy making essentially the same comment over and over again? Like, often enough that I don't even have to look at the user name when there's a comment like this, it's going to be you.

    There has to be a reason behind it, some kind of thing in your head that makes you think it's a beneficial hobby, so what is it? Help a motherfucker out, I don't like blocking people unless there's no other choice, so show me the human behind the blathering.

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