Before schoolage I had several rectal procedures, I guess from the age of 4. They begun with a flushing of my colon with something I remember as a colonic device pumping in and out fluid. I think they also took some x-ray pictures with my colon filled, because I remember something like an x-ray device. Then came an examination with a speculum with my legs being held up by a nurse or in stirrups. This is what I remember fairly clearly. What came thereafter is more a guess, but I think there was a rigid sigmoidoscopy and some adjustments of my lower colon with a balloon device. I am sure I got some sedative medicine before these ordeals so that I only remember parts of them as isolated pieces.
I have not heared why this happened, but all the attention at my rectal area begun after a doctor took my temperature rectally and during the same time I got some problems with pooping. After this also my parents begun taking my temperature rectally. The problems with pooping went away, but used to poop more often that the average which might be a reason. I remember they said to me that “I was sick in my bum”.
I think all this happened at unit called “Kontrollstasjonen”, meaning “the control station” , an institution all preschool children were taken to for examination, in some areas every 3. month. These units were basically fairly simple, but at that time specialist doctors and nurses used to travel around with a lot of equipment to such units and schools to perform more advanced procedures and things like vaccination.
These units still exist in Norway, but now more advanced procedures are generally performed in hospitals. The history of these units is fairly complex. Some were started by so-called sanitary associations, red cross, YMCA, Salvation army, sport organizations, the labor movement Some were started by the Nazi regime during WW2. In some areas the local government took the founding steps. Now governmental control stations are generally operating in all areas, but still private institutions offer this kind of service.