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] Date Posted:Tuesday, August 02, 2011, 07:37: pm In reply to:
Richard
's message, "Semantics on "Up" or "In"" on Thursday, June 16, 2011, 01:14: pm
The first words used were, "Turn over on your tummy." That left no doubt where the thermometer was going. Sometimes my mother would tell others in the family or someone on the phone that she took it in my bottom or took it rectally, depending on the audience. Later she would tell me it was time to take my "tushy temp." We were used to the fact that in my family, children, until high school, had temperatures taken rectally.
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Date Posted:Wednesday, August 03, 2011, 04:04: pm
My mom or aunt would just say that they were going to take my temperature and come in my room with the thermometer - the end already lubricated with vaseline. Until they switched to an oral thermometer (when I was about 8), they always used a rectal one, so they didn't have to be any more specific.
