Probably around 1973 - 1974, large Pennsylvania high school on the border between suburban and rural with a lot of resources. I was always getting suspended for skipping classes and especially study hall.
Ms.Trexler the school nurse took an interest in me and made a deal with the assistant principal that in lieu of suspension I become the receptionist in her waiting room where she could keep an eye on me. It was an odd job, most patients were girls with ‘cramps’ and just wanted to lay down for a while. The office was also a hang out for the athletic crowd, the ‘jocks’ and the cheerleaders who often relied on the school nurse to cover them with late slips.
One day I'm there alone and bored so I start opening drawers in the medical cabinet, drawers of bandages, splints the usual but the bottom two drawers were full of a HUGE assortment of enema equipment. Red rubber bags of a variety of sizes, colon tubes and different nozzles of different shapes and sizes. The other drawer had large rubber sheets and extra tubing and unopened tubes of lubricant but one with most of its contents gone. Wasn't at all dried out either. I was stunned, could not imagine the circumstances where this equipment would be used but it obviously was.
Although in three years never saw anyone open the drawers let alone use its content. There was an IV pole in the corner that never got used but I then realized it was probably not an IV pole.
There was the occasional enema conversation, usually revolved around ‘cramps’ and periods. One specific time a girl brazenly telling the nurse and her friends how she had to get an enema at home for an IVP test, she went into graphic detail about her Mom giving it to her. She said, ‘I’m laying there with this tube in my ass and eventually asked my Mom, ‘Well, are you going to start it ?’ and her Mom's response was, ‘Honey, it’s already done now just hold it in'. Rose goes on to say, ‘And I drifted off to sleep with a two quart enema inside me!’
Being the only guy in the room I must have blushed terribly because Ms.Trexler the nurse said, ‘Oh Rose, you’re turning Greg's face red with this talk' . . . .