The first time a douche nozzle was used on me, I was at my grandmothers the summer I turned nine. Three days earlier my grandmother, who was a retired RN, had given me a couple of 3H enemas. Mom told grandma, when she dropped us off that summer, my siblings an I had been getting constipated too often and would she check it out. We overheard mom when she informed grandma about our condition and knew we’d be getting some enemas from grandma. However, we didn’t understand what grandma meant, when she told mom, ”I’ll give each one a couple of 3H enemas with the colon tube.” Mom questioned, if we were old enough for 3H enemas and was told, “their old enough, an it’s about time, if they have been staying that constipated. I’ll watch them a few days and go from there.” The first week we were at grandmas, she gave us normal enemas across her lap a couple of times. The following week, I found out what a 3H enema was, when I got called to the bathroom and given two 3H enemas with her colon tube. The first one was a two quart soapy enema and the second was a two quart rinse enema. I was required to take the full amount both times. They were different from any enema I’ve ever been given. I felt like I was really going to pop, I was so full. I was required to hold the soapy enema for ten minutes, but could only make it for five minutes. And luckily, I wasn’t required to hold the rinse enema. My brother got the same thing the next day, followed by my sister the day after that. Three days after my first 3H enema, I was called to the bathroom and given two normal enemas using a long curved douche nozzle. Again, my brother and sister followed over the next two days. A week to the day after my first 3H enema, I was called to the bathroom for the third time in a week and given another couple of enemas using the douche nozzle. This time I ask her, “why she was using the long curved nozzle.” I was told, “so I can get it high up inside you without using the colon tube.” As before, my brother and sister got the same thing over the following two days. After this, grandma started using the douche nozzle on us whenever she gave us enemas. Another change she made during our first 3H enema was having us get in the knee chest position, instead of putting us across her lap. However, we would still be put across her lap from time to time. The knee chest position became the primary position going forward like the curved douche nozzle, when grandma gave us enemas afterwards.
After our first 3H enema, we got normal enemas two more times that week. Afterwards, grandma gave us enemas once a week for the next month or so, till we returned home. Once home, mom continued the weekly enemas till school started in the fall, when they went back to “as needed.” Afterwards however, I recall the “as needed” enemas becoming more frequent following our introduction to 3H enemas.