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FalseStartered · 08/08/2012 13:05

If the nurse practitioner at my GP surgery can't use the word 'vagina'?

I've just been to check up on a few things, i'm 45, having more hot flushes than ever before, getting spots etc and after a bout of thrush, was putting 2 & 2 together...

she handed me a swab and said you can do that yourself, it goes quite far in there

i said 'oh right into my vagina then' and she flushed and nodded 'yes, that's it'

this was in a consulting room, with a solid door and no adjoining rooms, wtf is a nurse doing there who can't use the word vagina Sad

anyway, glad to get that off my chest

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SardineQueen · 08/08/2012 14:57

She wanted you to tamper with your own unmentionables?

Shock what is the world coming to?

Grin
FalseStartered · 08/08/2012 14:49

bloody ridiculous isn't it?

not the first time it's happened there either, GP used a similar 'thing' a while back, but as it was in front of DD i thought he was being twee on her account.

i almost said 'what, up my cunt' Grin

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drtachyon · 08/08/2012 14:42

That's bizarre.

I wonder what she'd have done if you'd just looked all deliberately blank and said "In where?"

CaseyShraeger · 08/08/2012 13:15

You said "chest"! That's, like, close to saying "boobies"...

Best to say "front" instead. Or gesture vaguely and cough.

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