Equipment - Inheritance or ?

I would like to know if someone "inherited" their mother's or grandmother's equipment or some other relative?

Good grief, YES!

When my mother passed away, we cleaned out her house and found a ‘treasure chest’ of medical stuff. A Rexall Victoria Combination bag she bought when I was 15, A Davol fountain syringe which I remember from my childhood in the 50's, A folding latex bag that had badly deteriorated, a Hydaway syringe that was also deteriorated, two of my grandmother's enamel enema cans, plus rectal thermometers, hoses, black nozzles. A lot of stuff! Even two enamel bedpans!

When my RN Aunt passed on, we got her cedar chest still packed with her clothes and stuff. Inside was her red Davol ‘Comfy’ bag and another ‘Crusader’ combination bag. So, lots of stuff came our way. Some still gets used on rare occasion!

How cool! I've seen an old kit and I was very interested but I was thoughtful to be old and do harm

If you have read my posts, you will see that I have only purchased 2 bags of my own. The rest are the ones Mom left behind when she left

I don't really want to re-post too much, because it's all here.

Mom was Canadian.

When she lived here she was in her mid 'teens through her late 20s

The most interesting thing about that as far as this forum is concerned is that the equipment she got up in Canada(Most, maybe all of which her mother bought for her) was 2 Imperial quart capacity, where all the ones from the US are 2 US quart capacity. As a point of reference, an Imperial quart being slightly MORE than a liter whereas a US quart is slightly less than a liter.

As a result the Imperial Gallon which IS 4 imperial quarts is 5 US quarts.

So, most of the enemas she got/took while in Canada were nearly 3 US quarts,

Nothing my sub has or we have is inherited…unfortunately. We do have a couple found at garage sales, but they were not from family or anyone we knew. The JBL we have was a gift from a friend who has since passed.

Mom's Asepticon enema can got good use over 40 years but unfortunately was lost in a move..

@jekyll_doctor I forgot to mention in the previous respot. Did you or did anyone use the old equipment? I would like to use an equipment "experienced" I think q would be better q the current ones. Can you talk about it?

I didn't but a friend did. This happened decades ago when I was just out of grad school and starting my first professional job. I was probably 24. I helped a close friend move into his grandmother's house. She had just died and willed it to him. The place was very cluttered with items that she had accumulated over the fifty years she had lived there. During the move-in, I asked to use the bathroom. While in there, I noticed that there was a large linen closet and that the door was slighly ajar. I opened it a bit wider and saw a couple of vintage red enema bags on a shelf complete with the old red rubber hoses. At the end of both hoses were the old bakelite black rectal tips. It was obvious that his grandmother had used enemas and those vintage bags were now his. I never got up the courage to ask about the bags or what became of them.

Yes I have . .Through inheritance as neither of my siblings were remotely interested

I Scored some now “classic” items of medical significance . .😁

But let's also think about being on the receiving end of an enema while growing up and thinking “In 50 years will I own this bag and if not me, then who?" At that age the thoughts never crossed my mind but if the family has a well-cared for bag, "Who amongst the siblings will inherit it? Or even “Who amonst the siblings would want to inherit it?” Such a possession is probably not one where the beneficiaries of a will will get into some serious disagreements, if any actually occur. While I don't know for certain, I strong suspect that my younger sister, who always loved getting an enema, wound up with not only mom's combination bag, but the open top as well.

Yes I had the responsibility of managing the estate and did collect a few items including two incomplete combo bags and an old ear syringe. The one combo bag was over 60 years old and did not leak. I used it a few times before I sold it. The newer bag was from the 70's and lasted until this year when it finally started to tear. There were no hoses or nozzles found although at one time, these items were at home.

@jekyll_doctor I forgot to mention in the previous respot. Did you or did anyone use the old equipment? I would like to use an equipment "experienced" I think q would be better q the current ones. Can you talk about it?

To answer: “YES” the old equipment has been used. The Rexall Victoria most recently as a prep for a procedure. It is our ‘go-to’ bag when an enema is needed here at home.

I was about 13 when we moved from the farm in West Virginia to Philadelphia, meemaw died when I was 21. My sister was 23 and my parents, my sisters, and I had the job of clearing out the old farm house. We found some of the enema equipment in the window seat in the upstairs bathroom, and a can in meemaw's bedroom closet. My older sister took the enameled can, I took the open top bag which I used until it sprung a leak. There was an old combo deteriorated that was thrown away. We never knew that meemaw had a can as only the bag was used on us after we graduated from the bulb to the hose. As it's gone I don't remember the brand, and as for the can the only thing I remember is the spout was about an inch above the bottom. I remember thinking that would leave some water. A few years ago I asked sis if she still had the can but she didn't know what happened to it. I remember mom asking us why we wanted those things, but I'm sure that she eventually suspected that we liked enemas. As that was about 55 years ago I'm surprised that I still remember it. Memories of mom or meemaw sitting on that window seat with one of us on their lap. Long time ago………still the memories live.

Yes, I acquired some of my most treasured and used syringes and thermometer from both my mothers and grandparents homes. The bulb enemas as well as the rectal thermometer can be seen in my albums for anyone who might be interested.

I inherited my parents white Jones enema can as well as a red open top 2 qt enema bag. Plus 2 black bakelite enema nozzles, metal clamp and the red ribbed tubing. I had to replace the tubing at one time but got the exact replacement. My buddy uses all of that vintage equipment on me now. Fond memories.

When my Father’s mother died, I had the res of cleaning out her house and taking diff types of furniture to relatives houses. While rummaging through the house I found a Rexall Victoria Hot water bottle and a Rexall Victoria combination syringe. Of course, those 2 items became mine. Wished I still had them .. both items deteriorated through the years and had to be thrown away!

@jimc wow great friend

A funny story (at least to us)... My wife and I have been married for 46 years. I introduced her to erotic enemas while we were dating, and she immediately loved the sensation; our thing is combining intercourse with simultaneous enemas. Her father was a recreational private pilot, and their vacation destinations were nearly always traveled to/from in one of their Cessna 195s. My wife and I had been married for 4 or 5 years when her parents divorced. My mother-in-law was at their house preparing it for sale, with my wife helping. As they were cleaning out a cabinet underneath the master bath vanity, my MIL pulled out a big box that was overflowing with enema bags in every color and shape imaginable. She explained that when they would travel she would inevitably become constipated, and because she'd been instructed by my FIL to pack as lightly as possible for weight considerations in the airplane, she never thought to take an enema bag, so she would buy one where they vacationed. She probably began accruing these enema bags at least a decade before, explaining the variety and number of them. I have no doubt that some would be considered collectibles today. My MIL asked my wife if she would want them; it seemed a shame to waste them I suppose, lol. My wife responded, "Um, err... sure, I guess...cough". Her mother couldn't have had any idea of our enema fetish, which was in full bloom at the time, so my wife giggled her way back home, thinking about presenting me with this box overflowing with rubber snakes and bags. We had a good laugh when she carried the box in and told me to take a look... I'd never seen the mint green variety. At the time, 4-quart bags were rare, we'd bought one from a company in California and it wasn't cheap. I went to the auto-parts store and bought some 'Y' connectors to join 2, 2-quart bags together. All the extra hoses allowed me to extend their length, which was handy for our purposes. Her mom is still living, gives us $5,000 checks for birthdays and Christmas, but she'll never know the best gift she bestowed upon us all those years ago, and the lasting, kinky enjoyment we got from it. And to answer the inevitable question, no, we don't have a single one of them anymore. Likely lost/disposed of over the course of moves, etc... 4-quart bags eventually became easy to find, so I'm sure we decided we no longer needed them.

In the mid 1950s my parents bought a vacation house wit two little "guest" houses... each was just a bedroom and bathroom.

One day I was 'exploring' and in a closet in one of the guest house bathrooms, I found a Davol Iris fountain bag. Sadly no hose or nozzles, but still a treasure. I still have it 65+ years late, and, YES, it still works!