KNOWITALL: Patience and emotional strength aside, there’s the gag factor. Babies that soil can be gaggable enough—but adults, the older they get, the worse the stuff in their guts. Changing the diapers of the elderly can make you gag and puke. It cannot be helped.
Anniereborn: Harder tasks than changing diapers are all the worst when diapers are also involved. Diapers are the worst stench imaginable—only dealing with anatomical waste such as autopsies of long dead bodies is worse—and there you are permitted breathing gear.
Squeeky—is that why, on Askville, you adopted ‘changes suck’ to your username (when Askville changed their format)