Announcing your temperature

Does anyone else have ever feel embarrassed or nervous at the end of the procedure when the thermometer was withdrawn and read? I clearly remember seeing my mom, my aunt or the nurse holding the thermometer carefully to the light and reading it. They then would announce my temperature. Something about it felt particularly embarrassing. The thermometer had just invaded my rectum and had yielded this information about my body. I had no control. I was always afraid it would be high which would mean the doctor might give me a shot. I remember one time in particular my aunt taking my rectal temp and withdrawing the thermometer and me having a temp of 102. She was very concerned so took me home where my mother verified the reading. I never understood why I needed a second check but mom said she wasn’t sure my aunt inserted the thermometer far enough into my rectum and she worried my temp could be higher. I remember crying thinking “it’s really going in deep this time.”my temp was 102 and I went to the pediatrician where it was bottoms up again for a third reading that day!