Saturday, June 4, 2011

How is it

..that I can day in, day out, deal with vomit containing identifiable food chunks, bloody trach suction shooting onto my chest, bodies dripping various fluids, and feces coming out of places it shouldn't without batting an eye, yet when it comes to taking out a bag of trash that I know contains a large dead rodent, I can't get from my backyard to my curb without retching and screaming like a little girl?
Seriously. Rats. What is wrong with me?
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10 comments:

  1. Cartoon CharactersJune 4, 2011 at 8:52 AM

    Ya. I have the same aversions outside the hospital.

    Who else would want to eat from a bowl of chips that are sitting next to a container with a bloody placenta in it???? Then turn around and gag at dead animal......

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  2. LJune 4, 2011 at 8:58 AM

    Rats. Why'd it have to be rats?!

    Ugh. I'd be squirmy too...rats are disgusting.

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  3. AnonymousJune 4, 2011 at 10:23 AM

    BUGS!! BUGS!! Oh man if it has 4 legs or less I can handle it. More then 4 then break out the B52, and 4 points!!!!!!!!!

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  4. TinyRNJune 4, 2011 at 10:47 AM

    I feel you, girl

    Spiders. 'Nuff said

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  5. FrankCJune 4, 2011 at 11:02 AM

    Is it because you really, really know that the rat is not dead, just biding his time before leaping out of the trash bag and going for you?

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  6. rnraquelJune 4, 2011 at 3:12 PM

    I am with you. For me it is bugs, especially roaches. Give me a dismembered, bloody person having diarrhea and vomiting identifiable food chunks any day over roaches, especially flying roaches!

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  7. AnonymousJune 4, 2011 at 9:59 PM

    Pre-nursing student here. Where else can feces ooze from?

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  8. hoodnurseJune 5, 2011 at 7:11 AM

    @Frank- YES! MFing ZOMBIE RATS. In this case it was actually a possum, which to me is worse, because it's basically the closest thing in real life to the ROUS from the Princess Bride.
    @pre nursing student- I've seen it come out the mouth, out abdominal wounds and out both male and female genitalia. Fistulas are a sonbitch.

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  9. Awake and DreamingJune 6, 2011 at 5:36 AM

    I totally get it. Totally. I work in a homeless shelter, so I've seen some "interesting" things... But rodents, I really just can NOT deal with rodents.

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  10. ShalomJune 13, 2011 at 8:00 PM

    Possums might be the ugliest animals God ever put on this His earth. Imagine a rat, blown up to the size of a small dog, wearing a pig nose mask, and you'll get something of the idea.

    I suppose you've seen this video: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=q1doR9zUtQ8 ?

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