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Subject: Shaking Down the Thermometer


Author:
Catherine A.
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Date Posted: Wednesday, May 02, 2012, 11:12: am

Years ago I was critically injured in an accident and needed home care from a visiting nurse after a month in the hospital. This was before nurses commonly used digital thermometers. Angie used a glass rectal thermometer that she kept in a container near my bed, because my jaw was wired due to my facial injuries. One of my memories is Angie standing over me shaking down the thermometer and hearing the snap of her wrist.

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Rob65
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Date Posted: Wednesday, May 02, 2012, 11:53: am

It's something often over looked but never the less stirs memories of the proceedure. As a child lying in a hospital bed I would watch in shame as the nurse would shake down the thermometer, stopping, checking and sometimes shaking it down again. At that point I was already on my tummy with my bottom bared. Glad you brought it up Catherine.

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Mathew
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Date Posted: Sunday, May 06, 2012, 01:05: pm

My first vivid memory of getting my temperature taken rectally was at a checkup at my doctor's office in the summer of 1976. As usual my mom took me back into the exam room and the nurse told her that she needed to take my temperature.I had told my mom earlier that day that I didn't want them to take it in my butt anymore and she had agreed that I could get it taken in my mouth.My mom told the nurse and she just smiled and pulled my mom aside to speak with her briefly.When my mom came back she told me to pull down my pants and lay down on my tummy.I felt betrayed that my mom had lied to me and I openly protested that,"I thought I didn't have to do this anymore".She replied,"You have no choice". So I reluctantly did what I was told and waited for the inevitable indignity.I remember very clearly watching as the nurse approached shaking down the thermometer and I was completely mesmerized by her.It has become an icon of feminine power in my mind.She then proceeded to spread my cheeks really wide,it felt like she was letting me know who was the boss,then she shove it in very deeply.I remember that the thermometer was very cold and it tickled!I told my mom that it doesn't feel bad and began giggling loudly,saying that,"It tickles and that it feels good!"My mom just sat and watched me smiling and I could hear the other women in the front office laughing.I never complained about having to get my temperature taken rectally ever again.Looking back on it,I feel that woman was justified in her insisting to take my temperature that way and I am grateful for the pleasure that she opened me up to.

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Pat
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Date Posted: Monday, May 28, 2012, 06:33: pm

How old was you at the time?

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Rich
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Date Posted: Wednesday, May 02, 2012, 01:52: pm

I refer and have referred to it as "that distinctive snapping sound". If a nurse knew how to rapidly as opposed to slowly shaking down a thermometer, you'd hear that "snapping sound".

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Catherine A.
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Date Posted: Wednesday, May 02, 2012, 09:20: pm

Angie was in her first year of home nursing. She was only 23 at the time, but she was well trained, came from a family of nurses and knew how to shake down a thermometer.

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Tom
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Date Posted: Wednesday, May 02, 2012, 10:42: pm

I remember,clearly,the "whip-like" sound of the thermometer being shaken down by my mother.I would already be on my stomach,bottom bared.Mom whould shake it,stop and hold it up to the light,and shake it again before she was satisfied the rectal thermometer was ready.Then she would turn and lubricate it with petroleum jelly.She would then bend over me and spread my buttocks apart and aim at the center of my anus.Mom would make the firm,but gentle insertion and check her watch as she sat down beside me to make sure I stayed still for the full three minutes.

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[> Subject: Re: Shaking Down the Thermometer


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Rob
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Date Posted: Thursday, May 03, 2012, 11:15: am

the Chinese nurse (starts 1:50) has the whip motion down.

http://www.56.com/w43/play_album-aid-7206629_vid-MzAwNzg3NDQ.html

She doesn't seem to shake it down before the rectal, but I'm sure she did.

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mano (suppo)
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Date Posted: Wednesday, May 09, 2012, 01:42: pm

please help me
Does anyone know where to find videos of rectal suppository
of children on the internet ?
can you send me the link of this videos on my mail please
my E-mail is ( mandof781@hotmail.com )
Thanks in advance

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[> Subject: Re: Shaking Down the Thermometer


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Neil88
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Date Posted: Monday, May 28, 2012, 11:21: am

That's the sound of the thermometer breaking the sound barrier. Much like a whip, the 700+ mph motion creates a miniature sonic boom(snap).....pretty neat, but not as neat as deft motion felt in the butt when the thermometer is inserted : )

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guest118
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Date Posted: Monday, May 28, 2012, 02:03: pm

how many of you can recall this.

i can recall being SOUND A SLEEP then the feel of the bed sort of bouncing AS MY MOM MAY SHE REST IN PEACE as SHE WOULD BE SHAKING DOWN THE THERMOMETER i would wake up and be told to pull my undies bown OR prentend i was still a sleep and feel her slip down my undies then insert the COOL thermometer

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tom
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Date Posted: Monday, May 28, 2012, 05:45: pm

I remember this well. when i was 9 or 10 and in bed for a week with high fever and i to get rectal temps four times a day until my fever broke and then for awhile after that. mom and dad was very diligent about the four times a day, too. i dont think they ever missed a time. i protested the rectal temps at first, but i could see how worried they were about my high fever so i didnt protest anymore. it took them awhile after that before they would let me get my temp taken by mouth again, too.

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Rich
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Date Posted: Friday, June 01, 2012, 01:35: pm

I'm somewhat surprised that in this day and age of concerns about cross-contamination; unless I'm mistaken, prior to taking her patient's rectal temperature, the nurse in this presentation rubbed (bare handed) the lubricant along the thermometer.
And I'm sort of amused that "Greensleeves" is playing during this video. Oh, well!

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