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Date Posted:Saturday, December 31, 2011, 01:38: pm
My sister who is 4 years older than me got her temperature taken rectally when we went for doctor's checkups until after she turned 9 years old. We always went into the examination room together.The nurse always took her temperature first.She hated that.Looking back on it now I wonder why.Was it a 'ladies first' thing or was it because she was older?Can anyone here relate?
Date Posted:Saturday, December 31, 2011, 04:15: pm
When I was younger, each room in our pediatrician's office had an oral and a rectal thermometer. My brother, who was two years older, got the oral thermometer and the chair next to my mother. Meanwhile, I got to be up on the examining table on my tummy with the rectal thermometer in my tush. That continued throughout grade school.
Date Posted:Sunday, January 01, 2012, 10:09: pm
I remember that, too. I'd have my temp taken orally, sitting on a chair while my sister, who is two years younger, had hers taken rectally on the examining table. I was seven and she was five; our pediatrician switched you over at seven.
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