Rectal temperature redux

Today I went for a coffee enema at a wellness facility. The woman doing it was someone I’d been to a number of years ago, and as we said we thought we knew each other, the fact I said she had taken my temperature got her attention and she exclaimed, “ Yes, now I recall!”

Then I asked if she wouldn’t mind doing it again. She said she didn’t have a problem doing it but did not have a thermometer. I told her I did and gave it to her.

When I arrived at the center I was scanned. I asked the girl who scanned me what my temperature was. She showed me the readout. It was 98.6F, as their protocol required a temperature check.

My feelings about the scan being inaccurate was found to be true. After three minutes with a glass mercury thermometer I’d brought with me, placed in my rectum by the therapist, it proved it, as my temperature was 100.4F.

Then I was given a coffee enema.

I have always understood that a rectal temperature was between 2 and 3 degrees fahrenheit higher than one taken in the mouth. I have actually seen a rectal thermometer which has the ‘normal’ mark at both 100.4 and 101.4.

Well if you need a temperature taken and have to give an enema, then why not indeed take a rectal, it will lubricate the orifice.

If not mistaken a rectal reading ( preferably glass mercury ) is considered 5 tenths to a degree higher than an oral.

I've never had anything similar to these experiences. Sounds interesting.