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Richard
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Date Posted: Monday, October 18, 2010, 01:31: pm
When I was being put through the admission process in a NYC hospital back in the early 60s, like most patients my age, we were sent to at least four different stations prior to being put on the ward. Every station involved vital signs which in the case of those young patients going to the ward where we were eventually sent to; had their temperatures taken rectally. I was on the second station when I was put on the table by the nurse there and another nurse accompanied by a group of pinafored, capped student nurses came into the room. The nurse in charge of them, slid my pants down, took my underpants down, then instructed her students to "pay attention". She took the thermometer, held it up, then shook it down, read it, explaining about the mercury. Then she found a lubricant which she told the students was for easy insertion, and she lubricated the thermometer. Again she cautioned her students regarding the way to spread the patients' buttocks (in this case a 9 y/old) and how to slowly, yet firmly insert the thermometer at least 1/2 its length into the rectum. I had the thermometer inserted and remained there while it registered my rectal temperature. There were other young patients waiting with their Moms and/or dads in the corridor, all about to get their vitals done too. I was given the TPR (Temperature, Pulse & Respiration) routine, released then sent on to yet another station where agaion I went through a third of five rectal temperature takings I'd get, the last being as I was assigned to the ward. All the time, my Mother was with me.
And a day or two later, though she was not being demonstrated on, I saw the girl in the next room which was separated by a large glass partition with curtains;(not drawn oneither side)who had just been admitted to the ward, face down in her bed, her pajama bottoms and white panties lowered and a thermometer sticking out of her behind! Her parents and the ward nurse were there, all chatty and smiling, though the girl had a look of disbelief while that thermometer was up her butt. So, we got our temps in our butts, and yes I was one who was demonstrated on.
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