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] Date Posted:Wednesday, July 25, 2012, 01:49: am
I was 12 when I had my jaw wired for six weeks due to reconstructive surgery. I had to go to school during the time. I could not communicate well. No one could understand me. I remember being in school one day and feeling sick. I asked to go the nurse. The nurse said I did not look well and she wanted to take my temperature. She soon realized that she could not take it orally. She asked me to lay down. She came back a short while later holding a thermometer in her hand and asked me to pull my pants down and lay on my stomach. It felt weird getting my temperature taken rectally at school. At the moment, I did not put up a fight since I didn't feel well. I remember how it felt going in. I remember laying there a long time with my pants down a little past my knees. The nurse was distracted with another kid. He had bad cut from gym. After about 10 minutes the nurse finally came back and took the thermometer out and told my I had a nice fever. She tried calling my mom but could not get a hold of her. She did take my temp one more time later that day. My temp was even higher. The nurse could not contact my mom so I ended up going home on the bus with a note that my temperature was taked twice rectally and my fever increased in the day to 102.8. When I get home my mom was there. I gave her the note. She was upset that I had a fever. She told me to lay down on the couch and she would get the thermometer. She asked me to pull my pants down and in it went. She got on the phone to the Dr. Office and wanted to get in there before they closed. I remember she told them that I was having my temperature taken right then rectally since my jaw was wired. By then I have a fever of 103.2. We when to the dr. office and I had my temp taken again. The nurse asked my to lay on the table and pull my pants down. She told me that she did not have a rectal thermometer and would have to go and get one. She was gone forever. They took my temp agian. The doctor said that I was very sick with pnemonia. He asked my mom to take my temp reguarly and that it would work its course.
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