Subject: Re: Remember your first rectal temperature ?
Author: Matt AS
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] Date Posted:Sunday, July 17, 2011, 01:57: pm In reply to:
Tom
's message, "Remember your first rectal temperature ?" on Tuesday, November 02, 2010, 10:09: pm
I thank my grandparents (might sound silly) for being old fashioned. Usually had my rt taken by my grandma when I was young. For this thread I will relate my first rt and only given to me a the doctors office. I was 9 (this was in the mid 90s) I think and had been sick for a good while with a really bad cough and an on and off again fever. Anyway I remember specifically the nurse explaining to my mother what she was going to do. I was completely embarrassed to hear that I had to get my temp taken "the old fashioned way" as the nurse put it. My mother asked me if I wanted her to leave and I agreed to that. I just remembered being so embarrassed when the nurse instructed me to turn and lie on my belly. I became quite modest at an early age and feeling the nurse tug down my shorts and undies was mortifying. Simply felt her part my cheeks and stick in the cold thermometer. Never looked back to see the thermometer that was used, but it felt the same as the one my grandma used. Will always remember that day.
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[> Subject: Re: Remember your first rectal temperature ?
Date Posted:Saturday, July 23, 2011, 07:42: pm
well first one I rememeber led me here. Am sure I had one as a child but I don't remember any. What I do remember is a few months ago - came home from work to my girlfriend's house and I wasn't feeling well. Chills and a headache. I lay down and woke up to feeling a cool hand on my forehead. She'd returned home from work. She whispered that she was going to take my temperature. I closed my eyes. Her footsteps approached the bed and she set a hand on my hip as I was on my side. "You're fine" she whispered. Recall her pushing my udnerwear to the side and slipping the thermometer in. I don't recall too much as I really didn't feel well - but I knew it didn't feel bad. A few days later - she caught the flu from me and asked me to take hers. Rectal is apparently a habit of hers and she talked me through it.
