I love my job

My job just makes me laugh sometimes. Here's why:

• When asking a PDD patient about his complaints of diarrhea, he explained to me, "My stomach's been all rumbly today, and then when I went poop, it didn't come out right. It came out all.....[hesitation while he thinks]....juicy." Disgusting, but so funny! I now refer to diarrhea as the juicy poops!
• We had some staff from a local clinic come in to do an H1N1 vaccination clinic. It came time for one particular client to get her shot, so I go to get her and find out....she's had an encopretic episode (pooped her pants) and is still standing in it. Turns out she doesn't have any clean underwear so can't change. I ask her if she can just put clean pants on over her underwear, but then I think some more and ask her if the poop is still wet. Yes! This is what I do! Turns out the poop is still wet, so it would just leak through the clean pants. So we end up just taking someone down to her room to do the nasal spray there.
• When we get to the above client's room, she refuses the vaccine. Flat out refuses. Even after all our persuasive efforts, she is not having it. But then a genius staff walks up and offers her a Dr Pepper if she'll get the vaccination. And it worked! Who knew that Dr Pepper could hold such great power? Never underestimate it!
• Not all my funny stories have to do with poop. I was talking to a kid about a medical complaint, and as I was talking to him he was doing something on the floor with a plastic spoon. I asked what he was doing, to which he replied that he was catching a spider. He was successful, and as we were still talking he walks up to me with this creepy crawly spider on a plastic spoon. This kid doesn't have great boundaries, so he got too close to me with that spider (I do have an unrational fear of these creatures...) so I told him I wasn't talking to him while he had a spider! I might have broken my professional front, but I can't handle the spiders!

It's good I get some laughs, because work has been quite crazy lately. It's been so so busy, and I've been working late just to keep my head above water (not caught up, because that would be fantastic!). But I'm grateful I have a job, and that I get to work with such funny kids. Let's hope they keep those laughs coming...