• Apytele@sh.itjust.worksEnglish
    1·
    3 hours ago

    I actually do really really struggle in an N95. I dream of my only work PPE being my panic badge and occasionally some gloves.

    My old unit was a COVID-psych unit for a bit except it’s like. Illegal. to isolate people on a Psych unit for extended periods (with good reason). So you can’t just tell them they have to stay in their rooms, you have to let them use the dayrooms. So we were just out in the unit in full ppe for 12 hours straight.

    And then we started getting sicker COVID patients so I was trying to get this guy who had been wheezing for hours breathing properly before I gave him a bunch of sedatives at bedtime so I went to prop him up to breathe better except we don’t have motorized beds in Psych we just have box beds. So I was carrying like 40lb of blanket rolls to his room to jam under the head of his mattress which I had to haul up into the air with him on it to get the rolls under it. And I’m doing this in full head to toe plastic bag gown with a face shield and an 95 plus a paper mask so that I can keep reusing the n95

    and the doctor hasn’t had time to call me back about getting him another inhaler and I’m swimming in my sweat under the plastic gown and I can barely see through the fog on the face shield (because n95s do let air EXIT around the edges of the mask). And then the dude just has a stroke anyway.

    He lived, actually. The stroke team fixed him. They kept asking if I’d given any sedatives that might be affecting their assessment. Super proud that I got to say no it’s the only time I’ve ever seen an RRT nurse impressed with me.

  • ImplyingImplications@lemmy.caEnglish
    31·
    5 days ago

    I work with a guy who refuses to wear his ear plugs saying he “can’t hear anything with them in”. Brother, that is the point. Do you find the sound of an air compressor soothing?

    • Truscape@lemmy.blahaj.zoneEnglish
      3·
      4 days ago

      Then you gotta dress wacky, that’s your PPE against rude and toxic folks approaching ya. Wear mismatching colors to the office!

  • finalarbiter@lemmy.dbzer0.comEnglish
    20·
    4 days ago

    I have to wear eyes, ears, gloves, and steel toes at work. Fuck yeah I love PPE and going home in the same condition I arrived to work! But man those cut-resistant gloves are like sensory hell for me.

    • JackbyDev@programming.devEnglish
      7·
      4 days ago

      Ugh, yes. I worked in a deli and they never made me use them for a few weeks (which is terrifying in hindsight). So trying to relearn everything was a pain. I’d just developed muscle memory.

  • khaleer@sopuli.xyzEnglish
    10·
    4 days ago

    Back in a time, few years ago mine cousin told me, he is proud to not wear protectove gear during job, like other, older than him “pussies”. Now, he have a one year old kid.