For all my rectal temperature taking procedures, I am always laying on my tummy on my bed. My arms at my side, and I am looking at the pictures hanging on the wall. Most of the time, I am only wearing my underwear-shorts. This is the way that mom, all of my older sisters, all of mom's neighborhood lady friends, all my older sister's friends, took my rectal temperature at home. It is also the way that all the nurses at the clinic had me undress and took my rectal temperature in my bottom when I went there for all my physical checkups or sickness visits.
There have been times when my rectal temperature was taken in my bottom with the glass rectal thermometer while I was completely naked. This happened numerous times when mom, all my older sisters, mom's neighborhood lady friends, all my older sister's friends, and by all the nurses at the clinic. If it happened this way, my underwear-shorts were lowered to my knees and removed after I was already laying on my bed at home or already laying on the examination table at the clinic. I do not remember removing my underwear-shorts before laying on my bed at mom's home, or before laying on the examination table at the clinic. If I took it that way at home, I always removed my underwear-shorts before I laid on my bed on my tummy. I would also put two towels between me and the top bedspread.
After I was laying on my tummy on my bed at mom's home, my arms at my side, looking at the pictures on the wall, my underwear-shorts were always lowered to my knees (or sometimes completely removed) by whoever was going to take my rectal temperature with the glass rectal thermometer in my bottom. When I was at the clinic laying on my tummy on the examination table, my arms at my side, looking at the paintings of the animals on the wall my underwear-shorts were lowered to my knees (or sometimes completely removed) by the nurse that was going to take my rectal temperature in my bottom with the glass rectal thermometer.
When I take my own rectal temperature in my bottom at home, I have a metal can with cold water in it and also holding several glass rectal thermometers with the silver pear-shaped bulb and red-tip. There are also several others metal cans holding numerous other glass rectal thermometers with the silver pear-shaped bulb and red-tip in this spare refrigerator as well. All of these glass rectal thermometers are always kept in metal cans of cold water, in the spare refrigerator all night and day. These ensures they are always clean, cold, and ready to be used when I want to take my own rectal temperature in my bottom with them.
The cold glass rectal thermometer is always a memory I recall from the clinic. I remember watching all the nurses go to the examination room refrigerator to get a glass rectal thermometer from one of the shelves or containers inside it. After that, they always went to the countertop area to prepare the glass rectal thermometer with Vaseline. Once that was done, they would walk over to the examination table where I was already laying on my tummy, with my arms at my side. My underwear previously lowered to my knees or completely removed. I always turned my head to watch all the nurses prepare the glass rectal thermometer with Vaseline. When they saw me watching them, they would always tell me to turn my head the other way and look at the animal paintings on the wall. They also told me to lay still and not move until they were done taking my rectal temperature in my bottom with the glass rectal thermometer.
At mom's house, mom, all my older sisters, mom's neighborhood lady friends, and all my older sister's friends also followed the same procedure, except there was no refrigerator in my room. So, the metal can with cold water is used to hold all the glass rectal thermometers that will be used to take my rectal temperature by all my older sisters, and all their friends that were there. Also, if any of them saw me watching them, most of the times, they just smiled at me and continued setting everything up. However, there were several of my older sister's friends that would tell me to look the other way while they were preparing to take my rectal temperature in my bottom with the glass rectal thermometer.
I always minded whoever volunteered to take my rectal temperature in my bottom with the glass rectal thermometer. Mom told me I was a good little boy when I minded them. So, I always turned my head the other way and looked at the pictures on my wall. This is the same process that mom, all my older sisters, and their friends followed at mom's house when they were preparing everything during the numerous times that they wanted to take my rectal temperature in my bottom with the glass rectal thermometers.
While at home, I already have a large jar of Vaseline and a box of tissues readily available on a table near the bed. At this time, I lower my underwear-shorts to my knees. After that I open the large jar of Vaseline, and I take and dip one of the glass rectal thermometer's silver pear-shaped bulb into the large jar of Vaseline. I take a tissue from a box located beside the jar of Vaseline and spread the Vaseline along the glass rectal thermometer's glass shaft.
After that, I re-dip the glass rectal thermometer's silver pear-shaped bulb into the jar of Vaseline again. I now have another large blob of Vaseline on the glass rectal thermometer's silver pear-shaped bulb. I then reach back and spread my bottom-cheeks apart and slowly slide the glass rectal thermometer's silver pear-shaped bulb against my bottomhole area. This was also another process that mom and all my older sisters did when they took my rectal temperature in my bottom. I know that when they spread my exposed bottom-cheeks apart with their finger and thumb they would see my exposed bottomhole when they touched the Vaseline lubricated glass rectal thermometer there.
Mom never said that she looked when she took my rectal temperature in my bottom. If she did she never told me. But all of my older sisters and many of their friends told me that they looked when they took my rectal temperature in my bottom. I already knew that all of them had seen it since all of them had changed me when I was a baby, or when they bathed me at night. I was never embarrassed or shy, since all my older sisters had already seen me fully naked before. It was the same way with all the nurses at the clinic. Plus, they always see all their patients fully naked each day when they go there and completely undress for their physical checkups or sickness visits.
At this time, I then move the glass rectal thermometer and guide it toward and into my exposed bottomhole. I touch the cool Vaseline lubricated silver pear-shaped bulb against my exposed bottomhole, slowly sliding it in and twirling it numerous times. I can feel the cool silver pear-shaped while continuing to slide it deeper until atleast half of the glass rectal thermometer is inserted inside me. Once the right depth is set, I twirl the glass rectal thermometer several more times. After that, I slide my finger and thumb up and out from spreading my exposed bottom-cheeks apart. I can still feel the coolness of the glass rectal thermometer's glass shaft as my exposed bottom-cheeks close together around it.
I then lay my head onto the bed and place my arms at my side. Looking over at the clock on the wall, the five minutes time has begun (although most times, it is longer than five minutes.) I continue to lay still on my bed. I also look at the pictures on the wall. I can still feel the coolness of the glass rectal thermometer in my bottom while it continues to register my rectal temperature. During the five minutes time, I will reach back and twirl the glass rectal thermometer. I always remember mom, all my older sisters, all my older sister's friends, and all the nurses always doing this when they took my rectal temperature in my bottom.
They always held onto the glass rectal thermometer in my bottom during the five minutes. They also laid their other hand across my lower-back area or across my exposed bottom-cheeks area. I remember hearing mom tell them that this was done as a safety tip to keep me still and from moving around. All the nurses at the clinic always did this as well on all their patients when they were taking their rectal temperature in their bottom.
I remember they always did this when they were going to give me a shot in my bottom cheek area. I always laid still like the nurse told me to. I was never one to move around on the bed at home or on the examination table at the clinic when my rectal temperature was being taken. But mom was always one for ensuring that safety was always followed and she wanted this for all my older sisters and me.
While laying on my tummy, on my bed, my arms at my side, I continue to look at the pictures on the wall and watch the secondhand of the clock as it travels around to each number on the face of the clock. As the five minutes continues to get closer, I reach back and twirl the glass rectal thermometer in my exposed bottom. By this time, the coolness of the glass rectal thermometer has warmed to my body temperature. I continue to feel the glass rectal thermometer inside my bottomhole. I know the silver pear-shaped bulb is registering my rectal temperature.
As the five minutes has passed and gone, I continue to watch the clock. Soon it is almost ten minutes since I first began. This was also the time that I left the glass rectal thermometer inside my bottom for during many other rectal temperature checks. At this time, I reach back and twirl the glass rectal thermometer in my bottom again. I then place my arms at my side. I remain this way until the ten minutes time arrives.
I look over at the pictures on the wall and think to add more pictures for viewing when I take my rectal temperature again in about two hours. While looking at the pictures, I notice that the ten minutes has passed, and it is almost twelve minutes. I continue laying still, my arms at my side and feeling the calmness of the moment. I continue to watch the second hand as it slowly reaches the twelve at the top of the face of the clock.
At this time, I reach back and slowly twirl the glass rectal thermometer in my exposed bottom. I then slowly slide my finger and thumb into and spread my exposed bottom-cheeks apart. From there, I twirl the glass rectal thermometer while it is still inside my bottomhole. After that, I slowly begin to slide the glass rectal thermometer out of my exposed bottomhole. I continue twirling the glass rectal thermometer as I slide it out slowly. Little by little the glass rectal thermometer is withdrawn from my exposed bottomhole. I then feel it as the glass rectal thermometer's silver pear-shaped bulb slowly slides out of my exposed bottomhole.
From there, I slide my finger and thumb from spreading my exposed bottom-cheeks apart. I reach over and take a tissue from the box. I then wipe the excess Vaseline from the glass rectal thermometer. Checking the mercury reading on the side of the glass rectal thermometer's glass shaft. My rectal temperature reading is 100.6.
After that, I lay the glass rectal thermometer on some tissues that were earlier placed on the side table by the bed. I will clean it in the bathroom and put it back in the spare refrigerator in a metal can on the back-shelf after I finish cleaning myself up. This glass rectal thermometer will go to the back of the line of all the other glass rectal thermometers in other metal cans already ahead of it inside the spare refrigerator. In two hours, I will bring out another metal can with a different glass rectal thermometer with the silver pear-shaped bulb and red triangle-tip that is currently standing in a metal can of cold water.
Then I take several more tissues and reach back to spread my exposed bottom-cheeks apart with my finger and thumb. I now use these tissues to clean the excess Vaseline around my bottomhole area. It usually takes three to four tissues to clean there. When done, the soiled tissues are tossed into the wastebasket beside the bed. From there, I reach over and take the notebook on the table beside the bed. I open it up and using a pen write the rectal temperature reading 100.6, date, time and location for this rectal temperature check. I also write personal since I did the rectal temperature check with the glass rectal thermometer on myself.
So, this rectal temperature procedure is done and documented. In two hours, I will be back in my room, laying on my bed, on my tummy. I will also have another metal can that is holding cold water and a different set of glass rectal thermometers with the silver pear-shaped bulb and red triangle-tip. My large jar of Vaseline will already be set out, as will the box of tissues. I'll look around to find more pictures to hang on the wall. Until then, I'll be watching the clock. tick-tick-tick