[johnhenry@dr.com]

Here's an update on the latest medical adventure I had with my wife...

My wife had an appointment for a medical procedure last week, which required electrodes be placed in various places on her upper body. As per usual, she asked me to come in to the exam room with her, mostly for moral support.

The procedure started normal enough. A nurse came in the room, and asked her to remove her top and bra, and to put on a typical hospital gown. She got on the exam table and lie down. The technician came in, who turned out to be a 20 something female, which was to be expected. I find that 90% of these technicians are always females, probably to put female patients at ease knowing that men probably wouldn’t mind female technicians. Anyways, just my theory.

The technician was very discrete when putting on the electrodes all over her chest area as well as her sides. She did not expose any “sensitive” parts, only reaching underneath the gown to place the electrodes as she needed to. So far, pretty boring.

As the technician started working the machine that she uses to take readings, It was apparent that she was struggling with it. She kept checking the leads/electrodes, removing and putting them back on. She had my wife untie her gown, and kept her covered as she checked each leads. After a few minutes, she stood up, and said she’d be right back and left the room.

Shortly after, she came back into the room with someone else, who I assume to be the head technician, who was around late 30s. He came in, look at the machine, and said to my wife, “the machine isn’t reading the electrodes. Would you mind if I take a look?” She of course said that it was ok, as if she really had a choice.

He asked her to lie back down on the exam table. While the room was dimly lit for the comfort of the patient usually, he turned on all the overhead lights so that room was now brightly lit. Her gown was closed but untied so just d****d on her body. The guy reaches for one side of the gown, lifts it up as if forming a tent, but does not open it up. This preserves her modesty because she's not exposed to the girl tech or me, but completely exposed to him because he then proceeds to look into the tent keeping the one side raised up. Since she does not have a bra on, he is getting a full on view of her breast and her nipples. He looked and fiddled with the electrodes for about a minute but it still didn't work, so he eventually did have to open up her gown exposing her upper torso, which of course, means my wife is now lying on the table, fully exposed, with me, the female technician, and now the male head technician, looking at her.

This was quite a turn of events. He’s hunched over her body, looking carefully at each lead which if you can imagine, means his head, and his eyes, are only a few inches from her breasts and nipples, inspecting it no doubt as he’s looking for the problem with the electrodes. Two leads actually were underneath her breasts, so he had to gently move/lift them both up to remove and replace the electrodes.

In any case, he was very professional and left the room once the machine was up and running again.