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Following is one of my mishaps . . .
The first time I used a Higginson pump, I was under the mistaken assumption that water only flowed when I squeezed the pump. You definitely feel the "jet" of the water when you or someone else squeezes the pump--and I love that "jet" feeling--mmmm, nice.
A nice feature of the Higginson pump is that it blocks the flow of water going backwards through the pump. That is, you don't have to worry about back-flow or "poopy" water, excuse my French, 😄, from inside you flowing backwards into the tubing and the bag.
So, while you feel the awesome "jet" of water when the pump is squeezed, you may not feel the very slow flow of the water that still flows because of the siphoning effect when the bag is elevated above the level of the nozzle. If you recall from your physics class in third grade, a bag held or hanging high produces a high rate of flow which you might feel or at least notice, while a bag held or hung low yields low flow so you might not notice it is still flowing. Nonetheless, it does flow—slowly, but surely.
So, what miscalculation and misfire occured with my first-time use of the Higginson pump. I read about the no back-flow feature and then I just assumed that there was no "forward" flow if you didn't pump the Higginson. When I had taken three quarts of water from my four-quart bag, I stopped pumping and even went ahead and pulled the nozzle out of my bottom and just left it on the floor behind my behinder unit (i.e. buttocks). I planned to just wait for a minute or two before getting up to sit on the toilet. Because the nozzle was behind my buttocks (i.e. behinder unit, a.k.a. read end or bottom), I didn't realize that the water was still flowing, slowly, but surely, as I mentioned earlier in my thorough, in-depth, detailed scientific explanation about the siphoning effects of tubing and water.
A moment later, I noticed that the towel under my tushie (i.e. fanny, hindquarters, backside, derriere, bottom, rump, ) was getting wet and I immediately thought I was leaking from my anus (a.k.a. backdoor, bottom hole, bum hole, a-hole, rosebud, rectum), but I checked and wasn't leaking. I checked the enema tubing and nozzle, but it wasn't leaking either. Where had the water come from? Quite a conundrum (and a clever little rhyme, if I do say so myself, and I do, and one that I did not try to do – “come from” and “conundrum”).
Then I looked up at the four-quart bag and saw that it was empty when moments before it still had had a quart of water in it. The conundrum was undone (mediocre rhyme), the puzzle was unpuzzled, the mystery was solved or sol--ved. The water had flowed out of the bag and the hose, through the Higginson pump that wasn’t pumping, and out the nozzle, but not into my bottom. Alas, it missed my ass and flowed onto the floor and into the towel.
So that’s how I learned by trial and error that the Higginson pump only prevents flow one way—backward, not forward.. The other way is always on if the enema bag is elevated, and extra on when the pump is squeezed.
At least I had towels already on the floor that made for a fairly quick and easy clean up.
Wow! That took a very long time to explain all that when I could have just said, “A Higginson pump prevents backflow, but it flows forward even when you are not pumping.”
And if all that was not enough, and it was certainly was more than enough, I will still share something more . . . something about being succinct in writing which is something I am obviously not capable of doing . . . .
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In a writing class, the college professor proposed a small contest in which students had to write the very shortest story possible but the story had to include sex, emotion, mystery, deity, and royalty.
The winning short story read as follows:
“My God. I’m pregnant,” shouted the irate queen. “Who could the father be?”
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