I wish I had not searched that. :( Now I will forever have that terrible picture in my mind forever.

That's how it goes 'fraid.

As an RN, I feel your disgust!

yuck!!!!!

Wat is interigo?

Would you prefer that she stay home and let it worsen and suffer? Or just that you only be assigned the nice tidy cases, the slim white upper-class patients with private insurance? On my first day of nursing school, the instructor got up and told us that if we had ever considered ourselves superior to another human for any reason, health care was not the field for us. I wish someone had told you that.

No sympathy. This is what you signed for. You are absolutely going to encounter worse things. Get out now and go into something that doesn't involve patient care like research or case management if you can't handle it- I speak from 15 years of nursing experience. (And I still find it fascinating, rewarding, frustrating and never dull. If you can hang in there though, and keep your compassion, you will build up an immunity to most of the truly awful things you will encounter.) Just my 2 cents.

Ew ):

I could only imagine you lifting each fold *vomit*

I see your intertrigo and raise you a gangrenous buttock ulcer that ruptures. In the back of a moving ambulance.