A new round of temperature checks

It’s Sunday, 4:57PM and as I write this I am waiting for my friend to arrive after she gets off from work at the hospital.

Late Thursday night my throat became sore and I knew it was the onset of a cold. Despite a bunch of Ibuprofen and throat lozenges as usual the virus was going to and is still running its course but waning by the moment.

So when I was really hurting she came over at my asking. No discussion-I was told to assume the position on my stomach which I did. Then after shaking down the thermometer and reading it and lubricating it, she set it down on a tissue reached over grabbed the waistband of my pajama bottoms, lowered them and bared by buttocks. Then after grabbing the thermometer she started. With one hand separating my buttocks her other one guided the thermometer into my rectum and left it there for about three minutes. At that point my temperature was at 101.1F so she followed that up with 2 fever reducing suppositories her guiding gloved finger pushing the “bullets” deep into and up my anal passage. This has been repeated and will probably be done one more time, temperature taken anyway since I’m feeling much better. And if my temperature is normal, I’m still not out of the woods. It’s her practice to administer a very warm cleansing enema as a last treatment and within the next hour or two my rectal temperature will be taken, and a very warm enema given before I get to sleep this evening.