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Date Posted: 12:47:47 01/24/26 Sat
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>Who here has been in that situation personally, or
>heard credible stories from others? No fantasy fluff
>please- only real life accounts.
When I was 16 I was hit by a car while riding my bike. I ended up with a broken left shin, broken right wrist, and a pretty bad concussion. The worst of it, though, was all the “road rash” from being dragged a few feet. It was summer and I was wearing shorts and had my tshirt wrapped around my handlebars so it wouldn’t get sweaty before I got to work. There was barely a part of my body that didn’t have scrapes and cuts.
Even though I was on mild pain meds, cleaning the road rash and changing the bandages was really painful because of having to move around so the nurse could access everything. The nurse always had a candy-striper (teenage female volunteer) to assist. The nurse would lower the gown to my waist, or raise it to get to my thighs, but my privates were always covered (no rash there since I was wearing shorts). The first couple of times was really painful and I asked if there was some other way we could do it so I wouldn’t have to roll around so much. The nurse thought for a moment and the candy-striper asked if I could stand while they did it. I said I could, but would need to hold onto something since my shin was broken. The nurse said we could use the treatment room. The treatment room was just a big room with a stretcher, cabinets and an open shower area that had handrails.
The nurse and the candy striper moved all their apparatus to the treatment room, then helped me in. The nurse told me to stand in the shower and hold the rails and made sure I was stable. She unsnapped the gown in back of my neck, but since I was holding the rails, it didn’t really lower enough. She looked at me and said “hmm…we’ll need to take the gown off” and pulled it off one arm, then the other, leaving me standing there stark naked! She did it so fast I had no time to react. The candy striper, though she did her best to hide it, was pretty surprised too! They proceeded to do what they needed and, to be honest, it was much easier than doing it in bed. It took them about 20 minutes to change all the bandages, which was actually faster than when I was in bed.
I was in the hospital for almost two weeks and had those bandages changed twice a day. There were three different nurses and four candy stripers who helped me.
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