Any good stething stories from our time sheltering in place?

Some stethoscope play with a significant other, perhaps? Or teaching a kid how to use a stethoscope?

I was hospitalized (not for covid-19 thankfully) and became constipated. I got a stethoscope exam from a nurse that was wonderful (gown and panties, she listened to me very carefully) and thr next day the resident wanted to examine me again so he also had me change and gave me another physical, minus breast exam.

Both times my underwear were slightly lowered and the bell and diaphragm were used. Both times I was also given an external vaginal exam.

Happy to answer any questions about this as well.

Actually yes. My GF has 2 cousins. one is 18 and the other one 16. the 18 year old is currently doing a... i dont know how its called in english. its basically for people who dont actually know what to become after school. its like an orientation year or something. hers is specialized in caretaking. so after 3 months she came up to me and asked if i can help her with blood pressure measurement. ofcourse i agreed because i also learned it. So she came over with her younger sister and we started talking about her school and how she learned taking blood pressure. it was pretty standard. placing the cuff, pumping until she cant feel the radial pulse anymore, then placing the stethoscope and listen while slowly releasing the air. but she struggled with correct readings. mainly because the stethoscopes they use at school are 3€ junk stethoscopes. so i introduced her to 2 of my stethoscopes. a littmann classic III and a welch allyn flat head. she first started measuring the blood pressure of her sister. i controlled afterwards. she wasnt far off. then she took mine. her sister got curious too. so she measured mine and her older sisters blood pressure as well. we started with the littmann and repeated with the flathead. another part what she needed to learn are the parts of a stethoscope and blood pressure cuff. so i asked and she named it. after we were done she told me that she also needs to measure pulse. she knew about carotid, radial, brachial and apical. i was surprised about the apical. because ive never heard anyone mention it before. no nurse or doctor. i asked her how she learned taking apical pulse. she took her hand and placed it on my chest while saying „we feel it for 15 seconds and multiply by 4“ i smiled. she placed her hand on the wrong side of my chest, so i asked her where the heart is. she was not quite sure. so i offered her to use a stethoscope and find it. she put my tshirt up and started to listen on different spots. after a while she said „here its the loudest“ i told her that shes now at the apical valve and that she can listen there to take the apical pulse as well. so she started a timer on er phone for 15 seconds. afterwards she tried it with her sister and her sister wanted to hear aswell. both where fascinated by the sound and had alot of fun. we ended up running the stairs up and down and measured our heart rates again. it was a great day. but then her mother called they needed to come home because of dinner. afterwards she passed the test with be 2nd best grade.

This is not with a significant other and happened long before the corona time but is my latest auscultation by a doctor so I guess it counts as a stething story.

In 2018 i went to my GP because i was feeling unwell. That is actually the first and only time i’ve seen my gp so far. I went to see him because of episodes of anxiety, fatigue and headaches followed by two panic attacks. At the time i didn’t know those were panic attacks so i had no clue what was going on and i was very scared. On the day of the appointment i was very anxious, and at the actual appointment i was so nervous that at times during the questioning i was slightly stuttering. Extremely embarrassing! When it was time for auscultation he just said “I want to take a listen to the heart. Lift your sweater.” He didn’t specify how high i should lift it but since he specified “the heart” i presumed he needed access to my entire heart area so I lifted the sweater above my tits. My heart must have been pounding like mad and I thought he would listen for ages but surprisingly he listened for like only few seconds. I wondered if i should feel relieved or disappointed. : )

@tara99 stething at a doctor is always way to short. sadly. :/ but be careful with the panic attacks. this can get really dangerous :/