Time When Your Temperature Should Have Been Taken Rectally Butt Wasn't?

When I was eight I came down with a nasty virus. It wasn't the flu and I wasn't very nauseated but my oral temp was 103. The lady who played Alice Brady ran off to become an Episcopalian nun after the show ended. She was speaking on a week night at our parish and my mom really wanted to attend. So she packed me up in the car with a blanket and some boy's life magazines and put me in a classroom while she listened to the lecture. I was miserable the entire time. I don't think my mother realized how sick I was.

When we got home, she checked my temp, orally and called the pediatrician. He said if I got dehydrated enough my parents would have to take me to the hospital for IVs. The entire time she never took my rectal temp. My mother stopped taking RTs when I was six and I think she was respecting my privacy. She even woke me up in the middle of the night to take my oral temperature. If ever there was a reason to take a school age child's RT, this was it.

This happened in the late 1970s, btw.

I never had that problem. I got rectal temperatures well into my teen years. 🍑🌡️🧴🧻

I vaguely remember one particular instance when my parents did not take my temperature rectally when I was a toddler, I either begged or asked for it not to be so my parents took my temperature in my armpit with the glass rectal thermometer.

What an interesting way to phrase this question. I think for me when it didn't take place, I was more shocked and then relieved. I didn't ask why but was glad that I escaped.

I had always got my rectal temperature taken up to the age of 16.

I never minded rt so mom, gram, and my doctor’s nurse took it that way till at age 18 i joined the navy. I was born in 1958. 🍑🌡️🧴🧻