Occupational hazard

VOM.

Okay...so yes I haven't been talking about my weight loss near as much as I talk about work on here, but this blog is about so much more than that! It's about the days in the not so average life of Thao. And you my friends are just as in shock as I am, as to WHY I don't have my own reality TV show yet. Aye yai yai.

They never tell you in school or college about the dangers of being an adult. The sticky situations you get into, how to deal with them or that some day you'll be doused in a patient's urine full of E-Coli bacteria. Not joking. Today I will yet again get to cross off my occupational hazard bucket list---explosion of a catheter. Now I'm not mentioning ANY names so this is totally legal, so you crazy sue happy people better shut it down right now! There I was, minding my own business and BOOM! My leg suddenly felt wet, and I knew IT WASN'T ME. Upon moving this patient, I had read in the chart they had a pretty significant amount of E-Coli bacteria in their urine, as well as other infectious bacteria. Great. The look on my face was complete sheer terror. 

Apparently the distressed look on my face made my super realize what had happened. He quickly rushed over and gave me towels and pointed to the door and said go! Luckily there was another set of OR scrubbies in the girls locker room. So I sat in my plaid undies with my leg propped up scrubbing the shit out of it. The balloon in the catheter apparently burst, causing it to come out and leak everywhere---which was all over my left leg and onto the table, floor etc. It wouldn't have been so bad, but alas that's NOT my life. Right where I got soaked I had a wee nick on my calf from shaving. GREAT. So now I'm real freaked out.

I tossed my scrubs pants into the red hazardous bin. Not real sad over it, I need new scrubs anyway and like HELL would I bring them home and wash them. Urine for all of you who don't know, is considered sterile. But wouldn't ya know, I get blasted with the only kind of urine that wasn't! An incident report later and a  phone call to occupational med led me..umm pretty much no where. Sandy the RN from the office told me not to worry about the cut. If I notice any inflammation or infectious symptoms to come in right away. I'm pretty sure between the excessive scrubbing with antibacterial soap, then alcohol and then peroxide I killed it. Hopefully this won't be a horror movie sequel where it stays and haunts me for the rest of my life---at least mentally.

On the upside, I wasn't feeling nauseous at all today--except the whole R. Kelly thing. I was actually feeling pretty good. I weighed myself on the scale at work, the standard weight and height one you know? According to that I should be up to 15lbs melted away! I'm super excited. I think that in all this whole thing is definitely working out for me. I can't tell you how happy and pleased I've been lately despite work stress. I feel like things are finally coming together for me in my life, and it makes me that much more motivated to keep going. 

It's such a big relief to know there are answers to your problems, and there are people out there that can help you. Being a better me, is all about living well right now. I'm happy. 

Obviously or I wouldn't be laughing about getting pee all over me today!