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Subject: Re: What embarrassed you? Author: Dave [ Next Thread | Previous Thread | Next Message | Previous Message ] Date Posted: Saturday, October 01, 2011, 02:07: pm In reply to: Geo. 's message, "What embarrassed you?" on Sunday, September 18, 2011, 05:56: am When I was 8 years old after my mom married a sailor we started going to a clinic on base. It was austere compared to a regular doctors office. A separate area of the waiting room was used for taking both oral and rectal temperature, even both at the same time, so when I had my temperature taken in my mouth I would look up and see a kid with his pants pulled down and the nurse spreading his cheeks and inserting the thermometer. I was always getting sore throats and so I went there quite a lot and it did not cost my mom and step dad anything. Mostly the kid on the table lying on his tummy with the thermometer in his rear end was 4 or 5 years old, but I did see a few older kids, and as I recall they were always boys. I think the girls had their temperature taken rectally in private. They were always embarrassed and complained a lot which brought attention to themselves. I used to like to watch a kid's mouth open wide when the thermometer was being pushed in his rear end. I enjoyed watching it and I guess the kid on the table noticed by the expression on my face even with a thermometer in my mouth as I remember remarks like stop that. The nurses would tell him to stop complaining. [ Next Thread | Previous Thread | Next Message | Previous Message ]

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[> Subject: Re: What embarrassed you? Author: Trent [ Edit | View ] Date Posted: Saturday, October 01, 2011, 05:20: pm For me, as I got older the worst was the fact that it was being taken like a child. As a boy, the last thing you want is to be considered a baby. I didn't know for sure how other kids got their temps taken, but of course, I wanted to be "grown up", so it didn't matter. I got my temp taken rectally at the doctor up to age 12, and at home into my teens. The second most embarassing part was the vaseline. At home, mom would always wipe my bottom, which was extremely embarassing. At the doctor, they didn't wipe you at all, so you could either wipe right there in the exam room (in front of mom), or wait until you could get to a bathroom. I almost always waited, so by the time I got to a bathroom, my bottom was a greasy mess that itched like crazy. The last time I got my rectal temp taken at the doctor at age 12, I remember similar feelings as those described in the waiting room thread. I walked out with a greasy bottom, and it felt like everyone knew I had a thermometer in my bottom. When I got home from that visit, there were friends of the family over, including their 12 year old daughter who I had a crush on, and I was terrified that she would somehow know I had just got a thermometer in my butt. I remember talking to her with a bottom full of vaseline, desperate to go to the bathroom, but somehow thinking I might give myself away by going too quick. I eventually went, wiped, changed my undies, and even moved my shot band-aid from my butt to my arm. [ Post a Reply to This Message ]