Two days later, on Tuesday morning, I got a text message from Les asking if we could talk on the phone this morning. I told her sure, but to give me about an hour to finish some things up. An hour later my phone rang and it was Les. We both thanked each other for the good time we had at the reunion and how well we re-connected after all the years. She said she had given a lot of thought to the conversations we had and wanted to ask some delicate questions, and felt it would be easier to do so on the phone vs in person. I told her it was her nickel and to go right ahead and ask away. She started by saying that she hadn’t had any sexual relations since Greg passed away almost 2 years ago. She admitted that she tried some masturbation, with only minimal success. She felt that everything was okay with her, but wanted some reassurance. Since she had moved back to the area a couple months ago, she had not yet located a new doctor, and said she didn’t know if she could have an intimate conversation of that nature with a complete stranger. She said that since I did well woman exams, would I be willing to give her an exam ? – I paused for a moment to let this register before giving her an answer. I ask her if this was really what she wanted; and her replay was yes. I then ask her if she really knew what she was getting herself into ? She said she thought so and that she would be more comfortable with me than a complete stranger. I ask her to give me a couple minutes to process what she had just ask and she replied, sure.

In the nest couple minutes a lot of thoughts raced thru my mind, one of which was she really serious and had she given this the necessary time to make her decision. I told her my initial thoughts were yes, I would give her an exam, but had some reservations. One of which was how she wasn’t comfortable asking me this face to face, in person, but yet she would be comfortable taking her clothes off for me to examine her. She said that was a fair concern, but her wanting to ask over the phone was more about the fear that I would say, no, and the ensuing embarrassment she would feel if I did say no. I told her I could appreciate that concern on her part, but that I needed to be certain that she really understood what she was getting herself into. She said that she felt she understood what would be involved and was okay with it. Just to make certain, I told her the exams I do are very thorough and invasive; some of which could cause her embarrasment and possibly a little discomfort. I did assure her that I had methods to ease the possible discomfort. Les said she appreciated that and was counting on it. To ease my concern that she really understood what was going to take place, I told her that her exam would include a thorough, comprehensive breast exam, an invasive speculum exam of her vagina. and that I would be giving her a thorough rectal exam with an anoscope. Her voice quivered a little when she said, ‘rectal exam’ ? - I told her absolutely. She then said okay. I told her that we needed to work on the logistics of when, where, how we would proceed. Les said that she was thinking we could do the exam at her place and then go to dinner afterwards. She suggested that we could do the exam on her dining room table or in her bedroom. Obviously, she had given this a decent amount of thought; which was reassuring to me. I suggested she take a day or two to think through all this and then we could pick a date and time. She agreed. We continued to discuss other things for about an hour. She said that she had some errands to run and that she would continue to think thru everything and then we could re-connect in a couple days. I agreed and thanked her for her time and the cindid conversation. I ended our conversation by telling her to strip to her bra and panties and I would begin her exam by… She giggled and said she would like that very much and was looking forward with great anticipation.