Mama and my Mother's mother both knew that I enjoyed taking enemas. I had been given enemas first with a small red bulb for as long as I could remember back. Mom said they were given to me because my intestines were not developed properly when I was born. I came about 2 months early. Anyway, when I was about 8 mother changed doctors and he advised her to stop giving me the bulb enemas and advised her to start giving me oral laxatives like Castoria, Milk of Magnesia, and even ex-lax. An occasional glass of Epsom salt water or prune juice was also given as were a weekly dose of prunes. I can't tell you how much I hated each of those things. Taste, oh yuk! Then, one afternoon, I was in the yard playing with a neighbor girl, when Mom called me into take my "medicine." It only took a few seconds. When I came back out, "Dattie" asked me what kind of medicine Mom had given me. I told her and her response was "oh!" She then told me that her Mother had once given her that stuff too, but that she had changed and had started giving her "adult" enemas. I listened intently. Later, that day, I came into the kitchen where Mom was. She was sitting at the kitchen table, drinking a cup of coffee, smoking one of her Salem cigarettes. I sat down next to her and picked up her right hand off of the table. She looked at me and smiled. I smiled back, then I asked her, point blank, if she could give me an "adult enema!" She just looked at me saying nothing. I did not give up. In fact, I continued to ask almost daily. About a month into my begging, I found, on a table in my room a little blue booklet about constipation. I opened it up and read what it said about enemas. Mom had highlighted a section which basically said "individuals that are hooked on the enema habit are often lonely, pitiful people who spend most of their time indulging in the taking of enemas."After I read that part I, again, found Mom sitting at the kitchen table, drinking coffee and smoking her cigarette. I took the little blue book in there with me and sat down next to her. She looked at me and then she saw the little blue book. There was silence for a second or so. Then, she spoke saying "Mike, I hope you read that." I took her hand in mine and said, "Mom, I did, but that ain't me." Her response was "Son, I don't want that to be." I replied "Mom, I hate that stuff you are giving me! It taste awful and it seldom works." Mom didn''t say another word. I left the little blue book sitting on the table and went outside. Later that day, deciding that I needed help, I rode my bike over to my Grandma's house. She welcomed me in and we went into her kitchen and sat down. I told her of my plight. She didn't snicker or put me down. in fact, Mam-Maw didn't even try and convince me to stop asking. She just listened. After I had finished my plea, she spoke saying "Mike, you know what your Mom's doctor has said. Your Mom believes that those things are bad for you and you should not be taking them." I listened and then replied, "Mam-Maw, I know all that. But, Mom has given me enemas all my life and they haven't hurt me, have they?" She couldn't answer. Then, she spoke saying, "Mike, ok, I'll talk with your Mother, but I can not promise anything." With that said, I gave my grandma a hug and rode my bike back home. A day or so later, I was on the front porch swing when Mam-Maw drove up in her car. She got out, came over to the swing and sat down. She, then, said "ok, son, I am going in there and talk with your Mom. I, again, can not promise you anything." I leaned over and gave Mam-Maw a kiss on the cheek and said "thank you so much!" She, then, went into the house. About 15 minutes later she came out, gave me a thumbs up, got into her car and left. I remained on the swing thinking Mom would soon be out to talk with me. Mother never came out, but about 30 minutes later Mam-Maw came back. This time, when she got out of the car, she pulled out a rather large brown paper sack with an orange and black box sticking out. She, again, came over to where I was sitting and sat down. She, then, spoke saying "Ok, son, we will see," patting the box. Then, she got up and went into the house. She didn't stay long. After she left, I got up off of the swing and went into the house. I found Mom, as always, in the kitchen, sitting at her table, sipping a cup of coffee, smoking one of her cigarettes I leaned over and kissed her cheek and sat down next to here. The sack that Mam-Maw had brought was sitting on the table as well. Nothing was said about it. After several seconds of silence I got up and went to my room. I just knew Mom was going to give me an "adult enema." Well, that didn't happen. Instead, she called me to the kitchen and gave me my "medicine." I teared up as I took it. Several weeks passed, then, it happened. It was a Saturday morning. I was sleeping soundly when Mom came into my room. She sat on the edge of my bed and woke me up by rubbing lightly on my neck. Then, she took my left hand and pulled me gently out of bed and led me into my bathroom. Immediately, on the washing machine that was in the room, I noticed the orange and black box, open, with nothing in it. I, then, glanced over to the right and there hanging from a curtain rod above the toilet was an orange hot water bottle with a red hose hanging from it. Being, embarrassed, I left the room. Mom called out "Son, if you want me to give you this enema you had better come now, or I am going to take it down, and if I do, I do not want to hear another thing about enemas." Well, I went back in and Mother did give me the first of many enemas. A couple of months had passed when Mom took me to her doctor. She told him that she had once again started giving me enemas. He went nuts. Well, enemas from Mom ceased. But, every I chance I got, I'd sneak the bag out of Mom's towel closet in her bathroom and take one. One day, when she was gone shopping I went in to retrieve the syringe, but it was not there. Mom had hidden it from me. I searched and eventually found it in Mom's top dresser drawer under her panties. Several weeks, later, Mom came home sooner than expected and caught me with a full enema bag lying on the floor and me taking off my undies. She demanded that I give her the bag which I did reluctantly. She poured the bag's contents out and left the room. I did not leave. Instead, I remained sitting on the toilet with my hands on my head, embarrassed and ashamed. Thirty or so minutes passed. Mom came back into her bathroom. She sat next to me on the edge of the tub. She turned my face towards her and said "Mike, you heard the doctor! He continues to say those things are bad for you!" I listened, teared up and said "Mom, I know what he said, but I like them. I have been taking enemas most of my life. That other stuff makes me sick to my stomach. Don't you understand?" Mom sat there next to me rubbing my hand for several minutes. Then she got up and left the room. A few minutes later Mom returned carrying her enema bag. She came over to the toilet area again and sat down on the edge of the tub. She put the syringe in her lap and took my hand and with teary eyes said "Mike, I know that I'll get in trouble for this, but I hate to see my boy hurting like you are." With that said she got up, walked over to the sink and filled the hot water bottle. I got up took off my undies and allowed Mom to give me my enema. Ask me if she knew? Yes Ask me if my Mam-Maw knew? Yes and I thank both of them for loving their son and grandson like they did.