#botched suic. in the washroom? WORSE THAN YOU'D THINK

[ramenheim]

I also clean at a hospital & I gotta say that Sand is absolutely the most common substance I remove from the floors for like 50% of the year. :^/

We use it to deslip the ice out front; and it has often accumulated in such concentrations that I've literally just swept it all off the floor, walked outside, and scattered it back out on the ice bc sooooo much gets tredged in on ppl's dirty feet (& they *refuse* to wipe them off first).

Like, the only times I've cleaned rooms that ''were covered in blood'' were times that the pt was Very Much Not Fine in the leadup/aftermath lol.

Weirdest thing I've found was an abandoned boob hidden on the top shelf of a closet though.

the thing about working as a housekeeper is that sometimes I will be called to clean a room that is in such a state that it gives me pause.

The thing about being a housekeeper at a Hospital is that it is not the things that would usually be concerning that leave me with questions.

Like if I go clean a room and it is just covered in blood, I'm not all "where did all this blood come from" that would be silly. It came from inside the patient and they were already in a hospital so they're probably mostly fine hopefully.

In fact "Inside the patient" is where most of the potentially concerning stuff I have to deal with comes from. Vomit? That's from inside the patient. Urine? Feces? Inside the patient baby. Needles full of unidentified drugs? That was supposed to go inside the patient but I guess they frogot.

But when I go to clean a hospital room and it is full of Sand... Did that come from inside the patient? I hope not. Why is there so much sand? Where did it come from? Was there some kind of terrible beach accident?

I have many questions and I'm scared of the answers.