This may be true in my case because before age ten I remember only flashes of my life, similar to scenes taken from a movie. With my hands and feet strapped to the cold stainless steel medical exam table on all fours, wearing only sneakers and my lab coat pulled over my head I was feeling very exposed. The colostomy bag did not cure my IBS-C, however I learned how to control it with 3 doses of Polyethylene Glycol 3350 (generic Miralax). To my great embarrassment, the nurse came in with a candy striper following her who sat behind me in math class! From Rachel's Barium Enema, where a young woman has a physical exam and is referred to the radiology department for a barium enema, to Across the Void where a young man spies on his neighbor as she is punished with the belt and the bag.

For example, I know that there are many who think that they are the only person who self-administered an enema as a child, but they should know that I have communicated with dozens of people who admit to giving themselves enemas as young children or teenagers.You may tell an older child he may feel like he has to go to the bathroom while the solution is flowing in.

I used to get enemas at home from my mother when I was younger, and i still liked to snoop under the sinks to see if other people had enema equipment there.diff, ranging from the extremely virulent type that killed Peggy Lillis so quickly after she took antibiotics for a dental problem to a milder form that I battled for many months. Three weeks after I finished my course of antibiotics, in March 2020, I started to have severe, painful abdominal cramping and diarrhea. At noon, the patient started complaining of abdominal pain and I reassessed and paged the hospitalist: Judy.

Ask your child to remain in the same position until the urge to have a bowel movement is strong (usually within two to five minutes). Years later, I heard my mother, who was a nurse, comment to someone about giving me an enema during my bout of pneumonia at age four. On the last day she was there, she took me to eat soup and laughingly told me it was donkeyballs soup after I’d eaten half. I looked at my watch and realized that it had been almost 25 minutes since we checked in at the front desk.I didn’t have a lot of experience, but I learned that day that the relationships I had with my physician partners could save my patients’ lives.

I asked why and she said she’d been really nervous staying with me for the last few days and hadn’t been able to go poop for three days now. After holding that position for a minute or two, I had to move to my right side, then to my left side. Used a lighter to smooth it over, then I unscrewed the shower nozzle spray thing, shoved the shower hose into the sharpie cap and voila! During my earliest years, my life centered around my mother, Mary, my five-year-older sister, Anna, and whatever house we lived in. After three days, the diarrhea started again, and then I was given Flagyl again (except for two weeks this time).Because my sister and I shared a bedroom, I saw her naked on several occasions, and knew little girls were smooth between their legs, quite different than I. Kathleen Bartholomew, RN, MN, is an internationally recognized patient safety and health culture expert. Share your stories in the Year of the Nurse so that we can continue to inspire and uplift each other!