We grew up on our grandparents farm when I was between 4 and 12 YO as the memories come back, I think I'm doing pretty good at remembering at 78 YO! I'm remembering more about my hospital enema when in for tonsillectomy.
We were living on our grandparents farm in West Virginia and I was 5 years old when I got my first "remembered" enema. More on that later. I was in the hospital for a tonsillectomy, mom and I arrived after lunch, nurse had me change to a gown, not happy dressed in girls clothes! I laid in bed talking with mom, my room mate, and his mom until visiting hours were over and our moms left.
A little while later a nurse came in pushing a cart. She placed a folding partition between my bed and the boy next to me. I watched her assemble a white can, red hose, metal clamp and a small black "pipe". She went to the bathroom and was running water, I remember the boy in the next bed saying something like "It looks like one of us is going to get an enema” Or something that. Me not knowing what an enema was I asked "what’s an enema ?" I think his answer was something like "if you never had one, you're going to find out soon enough".
Now I'm curious, but I said nothing more, I wondered is it going to hurt? It wasn't long before the nurse brought the white can over and hung it on the pole on my bed. She had me turn onto my side saying something like “just relax, it won’t hurt”, but when she tried to put the nozzle in my butt I FREAKED! This is bigger than mom's thermometer. Wait, OK, it's in, not bad, I calmed down, kind of nice, then CLICK, WOW but not bad feels warm, but in a short while and “THAT’S ENOUGH I GOTTA GO”! The enema continued in spite of my begging and when it was over I was placed on a bed pan. Not possible to hold it, it's coming out and I mean right now and with a vengeance!
The next morning I woke up and he was gone, I don’t remember his name but mom was back and soon I was taken to the operating room. There they tried to put a foul smelling mask on my face and I went ballistic! Held down legs and arms I lost the battle! After my operation I had a different roommate. I didn’t get another enema during that stay, but I did tell Tess about it when I got home and she told me about helping mom give me enemas when I was little with the “red squeeze thing” in my butt. I must have been about two or three as I didn’t remember ever getting what Tess described. Tess considered herself an expert since she saw me getting enemas and as she was two years older, mom was giving her enemas with our grandmother’s red bag and hose. Tess was more than willing to teach me more and we shared giving each other enemas until puberty. The one thing that came of that first enema is that I discovered that it felt good and I wanted more.