I drive a truck long distance. Last month on my way back home from a run to Illinois, I started getting sick with cold like symptoms. The closer I got to home the worse it got. I called my wife and told her she might have to come pick me up somewhere along the way. I was beginning to think it was the flu. I managed to get myself back to the terminal and had her pick me up there. She took me by our doctors office and got me tested for COVID-19 and the flu, then we went on to the house.
Soon as we got home and inside, she started shucking clothes off me and took me to the bathroom to give me a shower. Sometimes she does this thinking I'll be bedridden for several days, and a shower or bath beforehand will at least make me feel some better if I'm too sick to take one later. Once she had me out of the shower and dried off, she had me get in bed buck naked and covered me up with several blankets. I was burning up and freezing cold at the same time. I'd been having a few spells of nausea, but hadn't vomited any yet. I rested for a couple minutes while she went back to the bathroom.
She came back shaking down a rectal thermometer and had a small container of Vaseline. Now I knew why she put me in bed naked, to have easy access to my butthole to take my temperature. I told her I didn't want her to put the thermometer up there, but she said something like….."honey it's so much easier this way. You're kind of nauseous too, and besides it's more accurate up the butt."……Without much chance to protest, she reached behind me and slipped the stubby tip a couple inches through my sphincter. Since I was burning up, I jumped a little because the tingly coldness of the glass. She held it in place and I was already starting to get some comfort from the warm blankets and the softness of her hand on my backside. After 4 minutes she took it out and I was 103.2F.
Had my wife not prepared me for bed, got me naked and comfortable, I probably wouldn't have let her take my temperature that way. When having someone care for you, especially having them disrobe you in a vulnerable state, you find yourself in a more submissive mindset. In other words, there was no legitimate reason for me to put up much of a fuss with her taking my rectal temperature since I was already naked. And she was giving me all the right reasons why I should let her take it that way. I'm glad I let her do it. She didn't hurt me and a rectal temperature with a mercury thermometer is the most accurate reading you can get. Both my COVID-19 and flu tests came back negative. I just had some kind of nasty bug I picked up along the way, or maybe before I left town. Some guys at the terminal also got sick before I did.