Get Well Cards

Anyone remember those get well cards from yore that cheerfully referred to enemas as an inevitable accoutrement to sickness and hospitalization?

One sticks in my mind.

The cover shows a man in pajamas and bathrobe flying upward as though launched from his bedroom in the house below. His hips are flexed and his arms reach frantically behind him.

"Who put icewater in the enema bag!?" it reads when opened.

I remember enjoying the fact that it was *quality* of the enema, not the fact of it, that the card alluded to.

Thus must have been in the late 60s or so. Pity I didn't get to see more because such cards were regarded as "adult" and I remember being shooed away from that section in the drugstore.

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Those get well cards still might be available in stores that sell "naughty" items, but probably not a Hallmark place.

They were more relevant years ago when you were guaranteed enemas while in the hospital for whatever. But those were mostly given with cans rathr than than the rubber bags that the cards show. The nurss shown were usually battle axes, but occasionally a smiling sexpot.

I don't think these were viewed as adult, or anything else. I was in the college book store at one of the top 10 universities in the US in 1967, looking over cards with my girlfriend. They had one, the cover had a patient running, dressed only in hospital gown, caption "Hope you get well so fast... Then inside a rather homely nurse standing beside an empty bed holding a red enema bag with the nozzle and hose stretched out toward the inside of the card and the running patient, caption: "that you leave your nurse holding the bag." I thought it was funny then had to explain my reaction to my nieve girl friend.

Since I collect vintage enema and douche paraphernalia, I've found and purchased a few such cards dealing with this subject. One of my favorite shows Hillary Clinton in a nurse's mini-dress holding up a yellow douche bag and nozzle. This was during the time she was running for congress and health reform was one of her big issues. Another and older whimsical card depicts a nurse holding a red enema bag, while the patient has just hurridly exited his room. Caption reads, " Don't worry, if your friends don't get you out- your enemas will!". Apparently the card companies had fun not only with enemas in get well cards, but thermometers were also a frequent object of fear and humor.

OMG, an enema from Hillary, that's enough to ruin my day anytime.

One of my favorite shows Hillary Clinton in a nurse's mini-dress holding up a yellow douche bag and nozzle.

I wonder if that was a Whitewater douche?

I remember one get well enema card, where the man receiving his coffee enema has his eyes bulging out. The concerned nurse asks "Is it too hot?" and his response is, "No, it's too sweet!"

Then there's one saying something like "in the hospital they know how to get you moving; put ice water in your enema bag!"

The one i remember is the patient hearing knock on the door,and saying freind or enema.

I loved all of the ones when I saw them and really turned me on when I saw them and always wondered if the pictures in them where the way people got enemas of course I was naive but then again i was very young and my dad was religious and we had no idea what sex was

I recently dated a nurse that worked in a gastro intestinal ward at a hospital. she said she was often required to administer enemas to patients, 3 or 4 times a day she said. she would make patients hold them in for 20 mins before being alowed to expel, they would either hobble to the toilet tensing their cheaks to hold it in or ask for a comode to expel into , so enemas are still used today. she was turned on by enemas and said she would give me one and spank me too if i wanted, alas we parted company before we had the chance to do this. a friend of mine while living in france also had to have an enema before an examination, i forget what her ailment was. she said the corridor was full of ladies all waiting with full bellies to be called to expell them. she said it was very noisey and 'violent' when she did expel. that though was a fleet enema. the french are very into enemas it would seem.

On a sort of related note, I was in a Drs office once, and the nurse was wearing scrubs that had a pattern of cute teddy bears doing nurse type things-including holding an enema bag.

Many years ago I found a get well card with a cartoon figure dressed in a hospital gown in bed and a picture of a bed pan and an enema can with the caption "happy BM" onthe inside of the card with a get well wish.

Somewhere in all my collections, have a bunch of Enema Get Well cards.

A number have all ready been mentioned. Always look for more in my travels.

I never mentioned my enema fetish to my PCP; recently I was in her office for my annual physical and she did the usual bimanual exam and her finger came out of my rectum coated with poop.I had not gone for days. She mentioned that I was obviously constipated and I was pleasantly surprized when her nurse came into the exam room with a Bagenema and gave me a very effective but clinical enema....after 15 minutes of pottying my brains out, she gave me another enema. When I thanked the nurse and the doc for the enema, they said that they were a family practice and gave lots of enemas

The latest I saw was a nurse informing a patient she had to slap the shit out of him because his insurance did not cover enemas!