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] Date Posted:00:13:10 10/31/09 Sat In reply to:
jeannie
's message, "I had the option(s)" on 19:31:39 02/02/09 Mon
When I had my infected tonsils removed and the flu 6 years ago, I was given the option of in the ear or rectal. I chose in the ear, and for some reason, when she put the thermometer in either ear, it really hurt like the dickens where they had cut my tonsils out. So I let her take it rectally after that. It was embarrassing, but at least it didn't hurt.
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Date Posted:04:26:59 11/07/09 Sat
One time i went to the doctor and i really enjoyed going because Id get a rectal temp every time. then they gave me the choice and i said bottom. the nurse said ok. them my mom butted in and said lets try mouth this time. i hated the sharp oral thermometer under my tung.
once dad took my temp rectally in the living room. it was so heavely.
Date Posted:20:14:56 11/08/09 Sun
I was offered the option by a couple of friend's moms when staying at their home, during my teen years, when I came down with a fever. I decided to have it taken by mouth, because I felt it was too humiliating to have my temp. taken rectally in front of my friends, and by their mom. I've always had the impression that rt's are for babies and really young children, or people who have mental disabilities, or serious illnesses. In my home, it was taken orally around age 5 through the time that I packed off for college. I still think that my friends who had it taken rectally were being treated like babies by their mom, and in some cases maybe sexually abused. It was too weird for me to see that.
