Before I became a SAHM I was a Certified Surgical Technologist in a major hospital. Part of the job included working in the Trauma Room. There are only two reasons a person ends up in this special room:
1. You are bleeding to death

2. Your large and/or small bowels have been torn open and your fecal matter is spilling into your body which will easily cause infection and sepsis = when the infection gets into your blood stream and gets carried all over your body - almost all patients die once this happens.

Anyway, the one and only patient I had that died was in the trauma room. He had been driving his jeep w/out his seatbelt. An accident occurred, he was thrown from the car, landed on his belly, and the Jeep rolled over him. The roll bar went across his back, crushing his insides. When they got him to us his chest was already open and the trauma surgeon was cutting the incision even more to get to the sources of the bleeding. We worked on this man for two hours and then his broken body just gave out. He was 32 years old. After it was over I started to clean the operating room. I noticed for the first time just how much blood this man lost. It was amazing. The room looked like someone had taken a firehose and sprayed blood all over the floor, every wall had splatters, the OR table was dripping with it (even on the underneath side that is separate from the patient's body.) While in the sterile field in the OR, we wore liquid resistant gowns, head coverings, and shoe covers (I wore two on each foot.) There was so much blood that is soaked through my gown to my scrubs, and through my shoe covers and soaked into the soles of my shoes. When I changed my clothes after work, I had to take the uniform off a specific way that would help keep me from getting the blood on my person, and there was so much blood had soaked into my shoe that I had to throw them away in the locker room.



I also helped my Dad take care of my Mother when she was in the end stages of Alzeimer's disease. My help included feeding, bathing, and changing her diapers. Personally I don't think a child should have to clean urine and excrement from a parent, but the risk of infection is way too high to leave it for my Father or the nurse. Diaper contents will start to eat away a person's skin in just two hours if the soiled diaper is left on longer than that. Bed sores will start to show in that short time.
Those are the dirtiest jobs I've dealt with. I decided that I don't like the rush of adrenaline a person gets from working on reflex, speed, and worry. Therefore I don't plan to go back to this profession if I ever have to go back to work.
As for my parents, my Mom has passed on, and my Dad died taking care of her. Too bad it's not possible for Mike to work in an operating room, or in a nursing home or mental hospital taking care of the patients. Those are really, really dirty jobs. Thanks!