Due to several things I've decided to get rid of my collection of bags, open, closed and folding, along with attachment sets, rectal tubes, bulb syringes and 30/40 black nozzles — some still in individual boxes from back in the day when enemas were so popular the corner drug store sold extra nozzles. I expect extra enema nozzles were so mom could have her own nozzle, not because she wore them out.
Many of the nozzles came from one rural drug store who had a tray full many of unusual designs. She, the pharmacist, said she hadn't sold one in years and was glad to sell the lot of them.
All of the things I have date from when enemas came from predominantly red bags, with red hoses, metal clips and black nozzles.
I have found, through Zity, a member who collects equipment and when I sent him a message asking if he'd be interested in my collection for free he was, and was willing to send me his address, which I thought amazingly trusting and brave. I'm honored to be so trusted and when I can, likely in a few weeks, I'll be sending him a CARE package I hope he'll be pleased with.
Yesterday as I was going through the suitcase I use for storage, sorting out what was worth the postage to send, what should just go direct to the garbage (good bye old friends) such as a blue bulb with a white nozzle, several folding syringes and old bags that have seen better days, a white attachment set with a red nozzle, and a few loose white and blue nozzles plus two green ones, I realized I was tossing all but black nozzles. Not that red, white, blue and green didn't get the job done as well as black does. Rather it was if it wasn't black and preferably bat shaped it wasn't a real enema nozzle and wasn't worth keeping. A couple of the folding syringes (lovely soft red and amber rubber but past prime) had black nozzles which I removed without much thought and tossed into the CARE package pile before the syringe itself went to the landfill pile.
I tell you all this as background to my question the above got me wondering. Are there others who also feel if it isn't black a nozzle isn't worth keeping?
Thomas, Tommy, Tom