A week later, after having the past six days off, I walked by this nurses station again. And one nurse said, "You should have been here yesterday. It smelled like poop all day. In fact, I even got poop on me." And she laughed.
And I'm like, "I prefer PEEP not poop." And here I get another burst of laughter.
I have always found it interesting how you can smell something horrible during the normal course of your life, and walk the other way. You can walk into a stinky bathroom and decide to use another bathroom. But, when you are nurses, you are exposed to nasty smells on a daily basis. And you just learn to pretend it's not there and go about your business.
Thankfully, as a respiratory therapist, we do our work as fast as we can and move to an area that has a more enjoyable smell. Nurses are stuck whether there is a good smell or not.
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