Did your Mother discuss your enemas with neighbours and other relatives?

Hell who didn't she discuss it with. I often heard her talking on the phone with one of her friends, the two of them jabbering on about my enemas. She would also discuss them with the neighbor lady Mrs Connors when she came over for coffee. And my aunt and her would talk about them right in front of me. They treated me like i wasnt even there, embarassing

Oh good grief YES.

My mother had 4 sisters and six sisters-in-law and they all talked openly about illnesses, cures, doctor's visits, medical procedures, operations they and others had endured - there were few secrets in that flock of hens! Their children were always a topic of discussion, regardless of the intimacy of the subject - even if they were in the room! With three RN's in that group, enemas always came up in conversation.

My mother often talked about how she had to give me a 'good cleanout' and how she had to fight to get it all in. This was countered by the aunts telling their own accounts of how difficult it was to administer to my cousins. When I was twelve, her sisters told her it was about time I got a full bag enema since I was big for my age and that is when they started their own kids on 2 quarts. Of course she followed their advice!

When I was fifteen I returned from summer camp with pinworms and that whole dreadful episode of sickening medicine and nightly enemas was replayed for the ladies in the kitchen at Thanksgiving and Christmas. GEEZ!

Occasionally at family funerals - the only real time I see my cousins anymore - the topic of our parent's total lack of concern for our privacy comes up. Rarely enemas, but a lot of other medical subjects come up.

Until dementia took her mind away, my mother still discussed personal topics like bowel habits, doctor visits, and medical procedures openly with her sisters and her elderly friends. We joked that the three quickest methods to reveal a secret was 'telephone, television or tell Mom.'

Like I have posted before many times she would talk with neighbours about her just finished a good soapsuds enema on me. That would be sometimes in the yard, over coffee or on the phone.

Mom regularly talked about enemas with my aunts and grandmother. Sometimes, they discussed enemas in general. Sometimes, they talked about specific enemas that they had given or been given. I really hated it when mom told them about an enema she had given me. Totally embarrassing!

Mom actually only talked to her friend Erika about it. I had this “Aunt Erika” to thank for a few additional enemas. As a pediatric nurse, she provided mom with all sorts of equipment and advice, and gave me live demonstrations. I was sure she knew my ass better than I did.

I was also sure that the entire neighborhood knew about my enemas. Erika was in almost every household around us; especially where children lived...

To her credit my mother was very ' private ' as to who she discussed my enema(s) or the need for with as in not ' just anybody ' . Of course there was our family doctor and his office nurse as to any illness related constipation issues but how often I was present when our ' good doctor ' advised my mom as to ........... ' and let's give him a good enema ' sometime tomorrow as our office visits were , seemingly , late afternoon . She would on occasion advise my dad when he came home from his job that she had given me an enema but our family ' enemas ' were very private and not discussed by mom unless she was specifically asked . Thanks mom ...... We ' enemaed ' often but all was just ' me and she ' in a very home privacy setting even into my young adult years . I miss her ' TLC ' and insistence that our ' enema time ' was to ever so private which was just fine with me .