Were you aware of your parents taking enemas?

Hmmm..Sherlock Holmes here…just figured this out. Probably didn't figure it out before because I wasn't really titillated by the question, but today….

Anyhow, my childhood enemas were always the result of constipation, cold, flu, whatever, and were always from a bulb OTK (usually mom's or her sister's). That's just the way it was, mom and her sister both being being RN's from that era. At some point (probably around 8 or 9) I discovered a white enamel Jones can with all the accoutrements (and still in its original cardboard shipping box) in the back of the linen closet. I never got an enema from that can (at least from anyone other than myself). Ergo, mom or mom and dad MUST have been using it!! Voila!!

Why I'm writing this is a mystery!! TMI!!! Go figure…and Go hang a bag!!

Yes I was . My mother often welcomed her mom / mom-in-law , an older aunt or a very close female friend into our home specifically to give her an enema . My dad on more than one occasion would usually on a Saturday or a weekday evening approach me as to my utilizing the bathroom if I had to because soon he would be ‘ giving mother an enema ’ according to him . In our home , parental enemas were as common as the dinner meal but were spoken of and practiced with discretion as to communicating the pending activity to me as a kid .