Body Pillows............Jus' a Buncha "Fluff"?

Body Pillows......Fluff or Fettish?

  • Body-Pillow "Junkie".........(I get a new one 3-4 times a year)!

    Votes: 1 20.0%

  • One time user.......(they're ok, but I prefer..........)

    Votes: 1 20.0%

  • B.P.-Free an' damn proud of it!

    Votes: 3 60.0%
  • Total voters
    5
greenfreak said:
I've never had a body pillow but I can see how they would be good for circulation. We used to have to strategically position pillows on the hospital patients to they didn't get bed sores. Between the knees was a biggie.
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Ditto... I always thought they were for the infirm... ;)
 
I use two normal size pillows. One to sleep one and one off to the side in case the one I'm using gets thrown to the floor.:headbang:
 
I've got a king size pillows on my bed, and if the wife isn't there, one of those works pretty good, otherwise I just use her. :D
 
Aunty Em said:
greenfreak said:
I've never had a body pillow but I can see how they would be good for circulation. We used to have to strategically position pillows on the hospital patients to they didn't get bed sores. Between the knees was a biggie.
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Ditto... I always thought they were for the infirm... ;)
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There aren't many things that gross me out but decubiti is definately one of them. :sick:
 
When I was doing my training I did a 3 month placement in a geriatric hospital. I remember one little old lady who came in basically to die and she had terrible bedsores on her back and buttocks, which she'd developed because there was no-one at home to care for her properly and she'd been neglected. Her husband was too proud to ask for help. We had to give her morphine before we dressed them and they stank the whole ward out even with 3 air fresher units going. I could put my fist in them. It was awful... poor woman. :disgust2:
 
Oh man, that's so sad. That's one of the reasons I got out of the whole EMS thing. I had had enough of transporting old people to dialasys and such who had no family or who would beg me not to bring them back to the nursing home. It was so horrible sometimes, to see the sadness and neglect. :(
 
Sometimes I feel like I spent 50 % of my time as a nurse caring for the dying. While it was sad to witness the deaths of elderly people, it the young ones that I remember most. On my first ward placement a 17 boy came in in a coma following a motorcycle accident - Allistair. Basically I learnt all my total nursing care on him. Sadly he never regained consciousness and finally died 6 months later. He was only a few months younger than me and by that time I was working in onchology looking after dying cancer patients.
 
All my younger patients I saw on the ambulance and I never had them in my care for more than an hour so it was easier to let go of it, you know? When caring for someone for days, it's hard. But it's people like you who make a difference to them and to their loved ones. If you think of the alternative; someone who is hardened after years of caring for the sick, your way is so much more noble. :)
 
At the time you have to be professional and supportive, I never cried on the job, but my sympathy always was and still is genuine. I often used to cry when I got home though and I think that if I had stayed in nursing I would have burnt out emotionally. So while I still miss it, I know it wasn't good for me. I'm too empathic, when I called myself a psychic vampire it's because I pick up on and feel other peoples emotions and that's not good for me.
 
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