Subject:  Re: 40's and 50's enema |
Author:
Catherine A.
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Date Posted: Saturday, March 31, 2012, 11:38: am
In reply to:
Charles
's message, "40's and 50's enema" on Friday, March 30, 2012, 11:54: am
If you went into the hospital for surgery in the 1940s and '50s, you probably checked in during the late afternoon. You would be shown to your room, helped as needed to get undressed and into a gown, and into bed. Between the time you climbed into bed and when they tucked you in for the night, it's likely that you were given one or more high cleansing enemas.
If you were lucky, the nurses completed your "prep" by visiting hours (from 7 to 9) or did it afterwards, so you wouldn't be embarrassed when your spouse and/or best friend popped in, only to be asked to please wait down the hall. Hopefully, the nurse was discreet. Although my mother (from whom I learned of her hospital pre-surgery experience years ago), remembered a nurse telling my dad that he had to wait to see her because "we're giving her an enema."
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