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Date Posted: 22:01:56 06/20/08 Fri
Author: Tim
Subject: Re: Surprised Coach
In reply to: luvrectal 's message, "Surprised Coach" on 05:06:36 06/20/08 Fri

>I think youths today don't get rectal temps as often.

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[> Re: Surprised Coach -- bb, 09:56:52 06/24/08 Tue [1]

>I will share a story that takes place in the early
>nineties. I am in my mid twenties when this happens.
>
>I was coaching youth baseball at the time and I had an
>eight year old boy named Jimmy who was the son of a
>single parent. His mom worked shift work and sometimes
>she would ask me to pick him up and take him to games
>or bring him home. One night however Jimmy did not
>show up for a game and after the game I called his
>house and his mother informed me that Jimmy was in the
>hospital. It seems his appendix had ruptured and he
>would be spending the next two weeks in the hospital.
>She asked if I could stop by the hospital and spend
>some time with him the next evening as she was on
>second shift. I said I would.
>
>I arrived that night at around 4 after I had gotten
>off work. I asked the front desk for Jimmy’s room
>number and I made my way up to his room. He was in the
>room by himself and was watching television. I asked
>him how he was doing and he said he was sore and kind
>of tired. I then asked if he had anything to do
>besides watch TV and he said that he had been given a
>set of UNO game cards and asked if I wanted to play. I
>said that would be nice and he sat up on the bed and I
>sat down on the foot of the bed and we began to play.
>This went on until a little after 5 when Jimmy said
>that we should clean up that the nurse would be in
>soon. I wondered why we had to clean up for the nurse,
>but we did clean all the cards off the bed moments
>before the nurse showed up.
>
>The nurse came over and asked Jimmy how he was feeling
>and then sat next to me on the end of the bed. She
>then asked Jimmy who I was and he told her that I was
>his baseball coach. She then asked if he wanted me to
>step out of the room and he said “no he can stay.”
>
>It was then that I noticed that the nurse was carrying
>a digital thermometer. She took the red probe and
>pushed it into a box of probe covers. She then asked
>Jimmy to lie down and get in position. My eyes grew
>and my heart was beating fast as Jimmy lay back on the
>bed and slid down his pajama bottoms. I could not
>believe what I was about to witness. The nurse and I
>were sitting on Jimmy’s right side and he rolled on to
>his left side. The nurse asked him to slide back
>closer to her and he complied. I watched then as she
>parted his cheeks with the thumb and first two fingers
>on her left hand. Jimmy’s bright red opening was now
>in full view. The nurse took the probe and placed it
>at the opening and Jimmy squeezed twice. The nurse
>told him to just relax and then gently pushed the
>probe inside Jimmy. I watched, and as the probe
>penetrated Jimmy his eyes grew very wide. The nurse
>then held the end of the probe in place for about 90
>seconds while the probe registered Jimmy’s
>temperature. The whole time since he was on his side I
>was able to view the thermometer poking out Jimmy’s
>bright red hole. Finally she removed the probe and
>shot the probe cover in the trash can. Jimmy pulled up
>his pajama bottoms and sat up on the bed. The nurse
>took Jimmy’s chart off the end of the bed and wrote
>down his temperature and said see you later.
>
>I asked Jimmy about having his temp taken that way and
>he told me it feels funny having it taken that way but
>that they have been taking it that way four times a
>day since he got there. He asked if I had ever had my
>temperature taken that way. I said yes and Jimmy
>smiled. This was not the last time I saw Jimmy get his
>temperature and the next time there was more.
Tell us about the more please.


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