themoonman

Feb 28, 2010 ⭐ View statistics (Premium feature)

Nursing Home Calamity

What's gold-n-runny
and catchy when taken home,
"facility diarrhea".

— themoonman, Feb 28, 2010

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Region, Country: South Carolina, United States, USA

Critiques

raskin

16 years 3 months ago

Nasty and funny, I don’t

Nasty and funny, I don't want to catch it. raskin

themoonman

16 years 3 months ago

My wife works at a "care facility", and a couple of weeks ago came home sick with a stomach virus that spread throughout the facility and at home... she coined the phrase, or maybe it's one that many use in that profession, not sure, but I am sure I don't want her to bring it home again... whew! thanks Richard

Kailashana

16 years 3 months ago

Sadly, in my recent

Sadly, in my recent adventures as a caregiver in large facilities, many elderly die and few ever come home tho they sometimes aren't too proud to beg. ~A "If parents really would love their children there would no longer be any war." J. Krishnamurti

themoonman

16 years 3 months ago

Anna...

You are so right, few ever get to go home from a facility, it's sad just picking my wife up from there, there is always someone looking out of the window with that forlorn look of needing to be elsewhere, I don't think I could handle working at such a place, I'm sorry if my attempt at levity hit you in a wrong place, it was not intended. Richard

Kailashana

16 years 3 months ago

Well speaking of levity…

Well speaking of levity... if one hasn't found the pony in a room full of horseshit... I remember once when my grandson (a wee baby) had a nasty case of Montezuma's revenge, my son got it, my x got it... and I'm cleaning puke, the nasty d, finally I got it... You think someone cleaned up after me? nooooooooooooooooo! "If parents really would love their children there would no longer be any war." J. Krishnamurti

DawningDaytripper

16 years 3 months ago

Eeeww, Moonman. You have

Eeeww, Moonman. You have succesfully grossed me out in ten words. Was that the purpose? I understand about facility. I worked in Alzhiemers facility. Sad. Family puts you there to die. I guess I understand why. But sad. And with this poem, GROSS! But I am sure you were succesful with the write. Julie D.D.

themoonman

16 years 2 months ago

Julie...

It wasn't my intent to gross out the Neo community... lol, sorry. It was just a simple truth about stuff that is passed around in a care facility. thanks for reading Richard

Race_9togo

16 years 3 months ago

Hey Richard

That Stomach virus is going around the whole country, man. My wife and daughter both got it, brought it home from where they work, and gave it to us boys. Yuk. Nice little poem, though. Respectfully Jim "Laws and rules don't kill freedom: narrow-minded intolerance does" : Race

themoonman

16 years 2 months ago

Jim...

yes, and it is still going around down here... thanks.

greeneyes

16 years 2 months ago

lol

Funny! I can relate well, im a nurses aide and have worked in nursing homes and hosiptals for 17 years!I have had my fair share of gross stuff. Greeneyes

themoonman

16 years 2 months ago

Greeneyes...

thanks... my wife was a cna for years, now she is a unit secretary but still works the floor at times, can't help but walk away with something at times... appreciate your look Richard

IKnowNoBox

16 years 2 months ago

When the Comode..

Runneth over.. Electrolytes save the day.. The huiku form.. sets this up proper.

judyanne

16 years 2 months ago

that is not so funny richard

i know what you mean, being a nurse and having both had it and had it to clean up well..... and i love the dig at the form not that i don't like huiku love judy thanks for bringing this poem forward IKnowNoBox, i would've missed it

Nordic cloud

16 years 1 month ago

Montezuma's revenge!

Ann of Norway Montezuma's revenge! That's what it is. Issa has written some bordering on this. Love Ann. Oh I've just read the comments and see that Anna's mind jumped to the same place but I leave my comment as it is.