Poopy Tray And Say When

I saw a coworker come out of a room carrying a food tray cover filled with poop-soiled washcloths. She dumped the washcloths in a clothes hamper and put the poopy food cover in the fridge. It was in the dirty food fridge, but still. I'm not sure that dietary is equipped to handle poop. But then, we do often send food trays back to the kitchen with vomit on them, so maybe this isn't that different. I don't know, what do you think?

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The patient didn't seem nuts, but he was sure acting nuts. He had donated blood before surgery and now that he needed the blood, he was refusing it. He would not tell us what his concerns were. The next day he was even weaker and kept passing out every time he tried to stand up. Finally, he agreed to take some of his blood, but with a catch. He got to decide how much he would get. If he got part of one unit and decided that was enough, we had to agree to stop it immediately.

I just can't figure out what his problem was. If he had religious objections, he would not have agreed to any blood. If he didn't trust us to give him the right blood, again, he would not have agreed to any part of it.

As it turned out, a whole unit got into him without his objecting that he had had his fill of blood. It was almost like we were pouring him a drink and asking him to say when. People can be so hard to figure out sometimes.