Three years ago, my older daughter, age 33, was very ill with a COVID variant. We moved her back home temporarily so my husband and I could care for her.
She was (and is) a beautiful young woman, on her own, with a successful career. She would soon become engaged. Once a mom, always a mom, but I never thought that I’d be her home “nurse” when she was seriously ill.
Long story short, one afternoon when she was feeling down physically and emotionally, she asked me to give her an enema. She thought that would help get the virus out of her system. I had not given her an enema since she was 17 with PMS. She knew that I gave myself enemas, but it was rare that she ever needed one..
I had given enemas on a couple of occasions to my husband when he was sick, but not to my adult daughter. At first, I wondered if I should call for a nurse, and we knew a RN in the neighborhood in her 80s and still doing Home nursing. Although I didn’t feel even one twinge of arousal like a did before and while giving enemas to my husband, I was concerned that it would be unnatural giving to my grown daughter.
I sat down on the bed and talked with my daughter about how I was feeling. Her reaction was actually what I should have guessed., “I love you, you’re my mother. I trust you more than anyone. You don’t need a nurse to do it.”
And so I did, over the next three hours, one bag with a touch of Castile soap and a second bag with baking soda. She cried releasing the second bag, whole lot of emotions coming out of her.
She had been very sick and we were scared at the beginning when she ran a high fever for the first two days. I was crying too when she was releasing. It was one of the closest feelings that I ever felt with her as a mom. She slept for several hours after the enemas. She cried again when we hugged later — so much unexpected emotions that the two of us felt, but with me, it was a mother caring more than anything else.