Subject:  Re: Enema Popularity |
Author:
Corrie
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Date Posted: Sunday, November 07, 2010, 12:25: pm
In reply to:
Janet
's message, "Enema Popularity" on Thursday, September 09, 2010, 09:14: pm
What Suzanne remembers, from what I have learned from my Mom and her Mom, is the way it actually was. Three generations of nurses came before on my Mom's side. I broke the string. I didn't go into nursing, although I did volunteer for several years in the hospital where my Mom worked. I grew up immersed in nursing and nurses. For as long as I remember (I'm 32), subjects medical were always talked about. A lot it seemed they were talking about doctors, who they liked (and loved) and who they thought should find another line of work. But that's another story!!
Anyway, my Mom became an RN in 1979 and Grandma in the early 1950s. Grandma used to talk about "the thousands" of pre-op enemas she gave. And they wouldn't send you home from the hospital without "eliminating," so chances are you got another enema. I remember Grandma saying in those days (and in her Mom's earlier days), enemas in the home ordered by doctors were routine for many types of ills we wouldn't think of today.
As so my Mom first learned about enemas from her Mom, as I suspect was very common among generations past. By the time my Mom was in nursing school, the Fleets were being used in some hospitals and, as we know, a big change was beginning. Thankfully, my Mom learned well from Grandma that a "good enema" flowed from a bag, not a squeeze bottle, and that's what Mom used on my sisters and me at home.
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