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Subject: Re: Getting shots during house calls Author: Product of the 60s [ Next Thread | Previous Thread | Next Message | Previous Message ] Date Posted: Tuesday, June 17, 2014, 03:32: pm In reply to: Steven 's message, "Getting shots during house calls" on Monday, August 30, 2010, 11:43: am A product of the sixties, my bottom and my sister's are no stranger to injections we'd receive during a MDs house calls. Usually we'd be in bed or on the couch in the living room, told to turn over, and then our pajama bottoms and briefs or panties depending on who was being seen were pulled down. Now at that point either things went quickly or dragged a few minutes. Fast was the immediate filling of the required number of syringes. Occasionally, we got both antibiotics and vitamin injections. The swab with alcohol, the jab, plunged medicine, a re-wipe if we bled, then band aids. The slow ones were when based on a discussion with my mom, the doctor felt a temperature taking was called for. Again, bared bottom though we'd get the thermometer put up our rectum and while we were laying there waiting for him to remove the thermometer, we usually got the injections while the thermometer was still registering; 3 minutes. Glass mercury thermometer. My mom always did our temps by mouth, he always did it in our rectums, and suggested my Mom start again to do it that way too. She did! And my sister though somewhat more tolerant of injections, freaked on learning mom was changing the temperature route to the rectal method. I found that a bit strange too, because I know the house calls made for her by the MD, also found her rolled over with a thermometer sticking out of her behind. But I guess getting it from mom had more of a psychological effect. Many a boisterous tirade ensued in the following months and two years before we turned 18, especially when my sister was sick, and mom told her she was getting her temperature taken. We reminisce about this every so often, and laugh. Though more technologically advanced where for the most part RTs are not needed, the 18 or 21g needle occasionally finds our posteriors and we get shots, though no longer from the MD on a house call. [ Next Thread | Previous Thread | Next Message | Previous Message ]

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[> [> Subject: Re: Getting shots during house calls Author: Tim [ Edit | View ] Date Posted: Friday, June 20, 2014, 03:26: am Thanks for sharing. I found the entire 60's 70's period to be gruesome when it came to shots. They were super painful. No one cared. And many family members even laughed. I wasn't laughing knowing my butt was going to be on fire any second. It is odd to me that today's kids seem to be way more accepting of shots. I find that odd......Tim [ Post a Reply to This Message ]