Thermometer is still used at home today

I Mitchell and I'm in my twenties early twenties and the thermometer I have to use at home is still rectal. Whenever I'm not feeling well or seem warm or like I have a fever my mom will say go upstairs and check your temperature. Up until when I was 21 she took it herself but after I turned 21 she told me we only have the rectal thermometers so you can check your own I have to let her know what it was and tell her that I took it rectal. Rectal temperature has always been the tradition since I was a little baby boy and still have it now anyone still have to take a rectal temp and live at home with their mom ?

I'll take "Fantasies about mom" for $500, Alex.

I'll take "Fantasies about mom" for $500, Alex.

And I'll take "my perception of the world is the only reality" for $1000

My mom once took my rectal temp in my early 20s. You want to debate people's life experiences with them? People do way WAY weirder stuff.

No doubt they do. Mine took my rectal temperature religiously until I was around 13/14, and yes, people do ALOT weirder stuff.

This thread, however, appears to be just one giant homage to the Oedipus Complex.

Howard Stern once wrote that his mother took his rectal temperature every day of his life till he was 18 years old.

If I could go back in time, I would wish my mother had continued taking my rectal temperature through my teens, 20s, 30s, 40s, 50s.

I especially wish that my father would have taken my temperature throughout my adulthood.

An inaccurate or dead battery digital thermometer has led to the rectal thermometer making it's way into an upturned bottom in recent times. Covid-19 also led to the trustworthy and accurate rectal thermometer being fired up.

As I have allready posted, rectal was the only way to take temperatures in my family . When my parents stopped taking my rectal temperature at 13, I was given a brand new ( rectal) thermometer to take care of my health.

Being a student for a long time, I stayed with my parents till 25. Then, on some occasions, my mother, who was very protective would suggest me to take my rectal temperature, but did not dare to propose to do it herself.

If this is true Mitchell, live the dream!