Date Posted:12:19:04 07/03/09 Fri
The first barium enema I received was in the "office" of a radiologist. The office was located in a large, multi-story medical building. In those days hospital gowns were a rarity.
I was shown into the procedure room and told to remove anything metal. I took off my skirt and my panties. The container holding the barium was a large enclosed clear plastic bottle about the size of an 8 quart pressure cooker. To the top was connected a rubber squeeze bulb. From the bottom was the rubber tube with what looked to me like a massive nozzle at the end. The nurse inserted it into me painlessly and away we went. As she pumped air into the top of the bottle it increased the pressure on the surface of the barium thus forcing it through the rubber tube and into me. After she had pumped me full and the radiologist had made the X-rays, the nurse told me to go to the restroom. It wasn't 'til then that I realised that the restroom was outside, down the hallway, in the public part of the building.
I was having no trouble retaining the enema so I started to get completely dressed. The nurse told me I had better get going and not worry about getting fully clothed. Here I was, scrambling down the public hallway, in full view of the radiologist's waiting room struggling with my panties and tucking my blouse into my skirt and heading for the restroom.
When I returned I was ushered into the adjoining x-ray room which was apparently the mens' side to wait while they developed the films. While waiting I saw the equipment lying in a sink and noted that the size of the nozzle was about a third of the size of the one they used on me. I wondered how it was that women got nozzles so much larger than the men.
