Halo Cast

[Mary Beth Sanford]

Halo Cast
Author's Note:  This story was first published as a short story on Betty's in 2007


Synopsis:  When Josh was wheeled into the emergency room he didn't care what was plugged or poked into him.   When his landlady arrived an hour later he was just beginning to wake up and only then did he realize he wasn't riding his bicycle anymore.   Then he saw his landlady and remembered he had made her his contact in case of an accident.  That's when he also saw the disposable he was tapped into.

Disclaimer:  This is a work of fiction.  Any resemblance to locations, persons living or dead is purely coincidental.  There is also sex between consenting partners over the age of 18 which may include sexual fetish elements and role-playing. As always I write this for your enjoyment.  A comment if able would be greatly appreciated.  Hugs  Mary Beth.

Players:  Josh Peters, Abby Hathaway, Helen Pennyworth

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[Mary Beth Sanford]

Story Halo Cast Part 1

According to the Highway Patrol's initial report, several things led to Josh's survival:   The shallow angle of travel when he was hit.  Injuries, according to first responders, suggested he was rendered unconscious immediately and most likely relaxed at second impact and finally there were lots of bushes.  Were it not for the giant oleander bushes lining the freeway there would have been an autopsy report included and not simply an accident report.   

Both Josh and the sedan were traveling Eastbound when the sedan, not seeing Josh, suddenly turned into him stricking him hard enough that his head hit the sedan first which knocked him out.  His helmet saved him but he was knocked unconscious before being tossed into the large bushes.  While all of it combined to save his life there was still enough injuries to make most people cringe over the details within the report. 

Diagrams of the accident with photos of Josh and his bike would make you swear he had been killed outright.  The worse injury was a mild dislocation and bruising at the mid point of Josh's cervical spine.  There was also a fractured left forearm, broken right forearm, sprained right knee and left ankle along with cuts and bruises suggesting his body had cart wheeled into the bushes which also matched witness accounts.

Josh by all accounts was a very lucky young man the doctor told Abby shortly after she arrived.  Abby had gotten the call just as she was settling down for a fresh cup of tea with her neighbor.  Josh had listed her as his only emergency contact, obviously lying about her being his "aunt" which was why she was allowed entry into his room.  She was, according to the call sheet, his next of kin.

While Abby had grown very fond of her young freshman boarder she considered his fib a little aggravating.  She was going to admonish him outright she had decided and was going to that first thing when she got to the hospital.  She was ready to say so as she walked into the emergency room.  Which all ended when she came into the room and saw him.

What gave Abby pause was watching the emergency doctor and nurses moving about him.  There was an IV, bandages, electrical attachments, hoses and enough beeps and clicks to frighten anyone looking on. 

They were still attaching things to Josh as Abby watched with a skilled nurse's eye.   That much attention by that many people was never a good sign.   On a portable light board were x-rays and it was obvious to Abby there were multiple breaks.

"Are you Abby Hathaway,"  a Highway Patrol officer asked coming up on Abby as she stood by the emergency doors.

"Yes,"  Abby said turning towards the officer.  He had an aluminum storage style clipboard in his hand with a form already filled out when he came up on her.

"I just need a few questions answered if you don't mind,"  the officer said.

"What happened,"  Abby asked.

The officer tuning away from Abby and nodding towards the distrait woman sitting in the waiting room, explained. 

"She made a wrong turn right into your nephew,"  the officer said. 

The officer went on to say the lady, Helen Pennyworth, had been cited for making an illegal left hand turn, on the expressway.   Unfortunately that part of the expressway was the scene of several accidents because of the break in the bushes used by the Highway patrol and service trucks.  It was a common enough mistake for those not paying attention.

Helen Pennyworth, believing she had missed her turn, made an abrupt turn just as Josh was riding past connecting her left front bumper with Josh.  The force of contact pushed the lower half of Josh towards her direction while his speed still carried him forward.  The impact itself pushed his upper torso into her windshield impacting that before sending his entire body cart wheeling almost parallel to the bushes.   

The woman seeing Abby talking to the officer jumped up and came running over, asking first if she knew the boy, then becoming nearly hysterical and promising whatever could be done would be done once Abby said yes.  She would spare no expense in making sure Abby's nephew was cared for and that she would want for nothing.  Abby was slightly taken back at the outburst but calmed the woman and answered the basic questions the officer had.

The woman went back to the lobby under the direction of a nurse, and the officer completed his report at the nurses station while Abby waited nearby while they continued working on Josh.  All of her anger over him listing her as his contact had gone away.  She hovered there every bit the aunt he'd listed her as.  She recognized most of what was being done to Josh.

The sprained ankle got a wrap, his actual cuts were dressed and both arms were put into cast.  They had not been using the short arm Orthopedic cast kit back when she was a nurse and she envied the nurses now.  She watched in fascination as the fiberglass cast was applied to Josh's distal fracture and break of his forearms.  She shook her head because he was beginning to look like he'd been in an accident.

Abby cringed a little, but nodded in satisfaction watching one of the senior nurses as the halo cast was made ready for installation.  She had seen the neck x-ray on the board.  She hadn't seen any fractures but clearly there'd been a dislocation.  It had been a long time since she'd seen one of those and admired the care the nurse used installing it.  Old feelings began to form.  Abby instantly forgot completely that she was going to admonish him.

What triggered another set of feelings, albeit some very odd feelings, was also seeing her young man laying there already helpless and being tapped in a rather thick disposable diaper.   Abby looking at Josh's diaper unknowingly whispered the motto for nurses learned right at the beginning of college, "mitera panta gia panta" or literally "mother, always and forever".

The nurse hearing those words nodded turned back to her work on the metal cast parts. She had heard the whisper, smiled and shook her head approvingly when she overheard Abby say the words.  Only a nurse would know those words and only another nurse would understand them. 

"Are you a nurse,"  The nurse hearing the words asked.

"I was.  For many years,"  Abby said and then added, "injured my back and had to give it up for a time.  Began sewing to earn my keep.  Started making more so I stayed with that."

Josh was still laying there on the emergency room bed.  There was little room on either side with curtains pulled as Abby moved out of the way. 

Abby took a moment and halted a passing nurse moving into the room where Josh was to ask why Josh was diapered and not fitted with a catheter.  Abby knew a catheter would be normal for injuries consistent with Josh's.  Abby knowing the nurse wouldn't answer unless she knew she was talking to family told her she was Josh's aunt and guardian.

The nurse nodded her sympathy, paused to remember, looking over at Josh then did so suddenly and nodded. 

"Swelling,"  She said.

It was mostly because of swelling she told Abby.  Josh's diapers were there instead of a catheter because of some bruising around Josh's genitals.  Besides his extensive body bruising there was also a little genital swelling.  Perhaps a bush had made contact.  Whatever it was it had bruised him enough to eliminate the option of a catheter.

"Odd seeing a baby diaper," Abby said.

[krystalasbaby2017]

nice start to the story

[Mary Beth Sanford]

Story Halo Cast Part 2

"It is on odd on someone that old,"  the nurse agreed as she added, "especially the single tape white ones instead of the ugly adult green.  Although on him, as small as he is, if you'll forgive me for saying this, isn't so odd looking."

"Actually I just noticed that,"  Abby said looking again at Josh and lingering this time. She had noticed that but it hadn't rung any bells till the nurse had pointed it out.  That single tape baby diaper look made all the difference.

The doctor, the nurse noted, didn't want to exacerbate those injuries by inserting a tube and then expanding the bubble to hold it in - at least not yet.  The nurse went on to say that the catheter would have interfered dramatically with any potential healing thus making the diapers necessary. 

The nurse misinterpreting Abby’s question over why the boy was diapered like a baby and patted her arm in a calming way.   She quickly added that they would most likely revisit the catheter within a few days and not to worry over it. 

It was Abby then calmly noting that they were very much like Pampers style diapers if it made any difference.   

The nurse caught on immediately then realizing Abby was actually admiring them as much as the nurse was.

They were adorable, the nurse noted.  She went on to say that they were some kind of commercial brand the hospital used for their larger toddlers and smaller children.  The nurse pointed out that they actually had gotten that one particular diaper from pediatrics.  When he was first diapered the adult diapers were too big for Josh so they replaced it.  Josh was in good hands the nurse reassured Abby.

Abby nodded her understanding and allowed the nurse to continue on with what she was doing in silence.   Still, Abby couldn't help but smile at the sight.  Josh's innocence in his sleep was compounding the look.  It was very rare seeing single tape fluffy white diapers in a hospital setting and in these times, rarer still seeing someone Josh's age wearing them, but Josh carried it nicely Abby noted.

What bothered Abby profoundly, once she determined that "her" young man was going to be all right, was how much she liked the notion of Josh in diapers.  She was sure it had a lot to do with it being actual baby diapers.  Something about that fluffy white diaper massing in the front the way it did had a lot to do with it.  It wasn't so much a motherly notion as it was some kind of dominate, and as soon as that feeling surfaced she grew more lustful.

Abby shook her head to clear it. When she allowed her emotions to settle she realized some of those feeling really were compassion caused by Josh being hurt but that lust was there as well and that was caused by the diaper itself.   It was a single tape diaper not too unlike an actual baby's diaper and it was a fluffy and pure white.  Abby's fantasies started with the diaper.

Wherever the hospital purchased their supply of diapers it was clear they purchased the most substantial disposable available.  Abby was sure she'd never seen diapers so thick.  Perhaps that was what gave her pause because she couldn't help noting, in spite of his condition, how absolutely adorable he looked.

Abby, a skilled nurse for almost three decades, had looked over Josh with a practiced eye, trying desperately to maintain a clinical view.  Even so she couldn't get the image of Josh in that thick white disposable diaper out of her mind. Something about that puffy material gathering to a pillowy "V" flowing down from his waist to gather between his thighs left her breathless.   Meanwhile the nurses continued fusing about him.

Abby's other concern came because of the halo cast as the nurse began installing it.  This current version, Abby noted, even as modern as it was still looked medieval.  Almost like a suit of armor, and with the metal bars for the head attachments at the very least was an odd looking device. 

There were two forms with one immobilizing the patient to a bed while the other allowed more maneuvering.  Both were designed to kept the back and neck connected as an unmovable unit or from moving separately.   The one for Josh would allow him to get up and move about.  It was also designed to be partially removed or "eased" to replace a two piece garment under it.  Abby had a notion of what to put Josh in when the time came.

What Abby knew of Josh's injuries the plastic chest plate and metal cast, called a halo, was crucial to his recovery.  The halo itself was more or less a cast of plastic heated slightly to make it moldable to form around Josh's shoulders.  It was lined in sheep wool that was also fitted to the shoulders.  The plastic cast and sheep wool extended down and around the chest which created a base to which metal bars are added.

Those metal bars, two in front and two at the back extended up from the chest and above the head to hold the metal halo.  The halo, as Abby watched was carefully fitted to the bars before it was attached by a set of straps.  Abby remembered that years ago it was held firm by pins into the head making her shudder.  There was a lot of activity that lasted through several cups of coffee before Abby found Josh finally alone and stable enough for a room.

Josh was groggy and mostly out of it and after a time he was moved to a semi private room.  Abby had stepped back and simply watched as one of the nurses brought in another diaper and went about the steps needed to change him.  Before she left she told Abby it would be at least a few hours before the sedatives wore off and that Abby should try and get some sleep as well. 

Abby decided to leave and return later.  She still had a tiny bit of guilt swirling around after she pulled the curtain closed and dared to lightly caress his diaper. 

Few things bothered Abby so powerfully, but those diapers on her boarder turned out to be  one of them.  It was unnerving and all she could muster as her reasoning was perhaps instinct of some sort.  "Diapers are a mom's best friend", she mused when she finally walked back to her car for her trip home.

Josh was still out of it when Abby called later that night deciding to leave him till the following day.  When Abby returned Josh was awake but still in a little pain when she walked into his room that next morning.  She moved to his side, touched his good forearm and wished him a good morning.   Josh had the bed sheet to his chest covering the fresh diaper when Abby came in.

“Hi Abby,”  Josh said feebly.  There was a guilty look on his face as he added, “I was in an accident.”

“I’ll say,” Abby said.

“And I guess they called you,”  Josh said and then suddenly remembered he'd listed her and apologized.

“They did,”  Abby noted as she moved her chair to give the nurse room for the tray of food.

When breakfast arrived along with a nurse to help Josh eat Abby volunteered for the chore.  Josh said he wasn't very hungry but Abby insisted he at least eat the oatmeal and finish the orange juice.  Abby sat the side rail of the bed down and took up the warm bowl of oatmeal and fed Josh his meal.   The combination of feeding him and knowing he wore a diaper left her sitting there warming below the waist.  She had to fight the urges within her.

[krystalasbaby2017]

I can see Abby is thinking up a plan to possibly keep him in diapers

[Mary Beth Sanford]

Story Halo Cast Part 3

"So what happened,"  Josh asked as Abby sat, took up the bowl, mixed it a little and spooned a bite into his mouth.  She did not let the notion that she was feeding a baby go by her as Josh took a mouthful of mush.  Josh didn't connect the same dots but he knew he'd been diapered.  He knew and cringed when a nurse came in earlier that morning to change him.  He was told why he was diapered and simply settled himself to his fate.  He was too sore to argue.

Abby thankfully had worn one of her larger pads as a precaution and was thankful now she had because she was instantly turned on by feeding him.  Again, had she been able to see the diaper she would have orgasm instantly.  As it was when she leaned over to get his orange juice she rested a hand on the bed and with her fingers just under the sheet allowing her fingertips just to touch the waterproof plastic cover of the diaper and almost nearly soaked her pad.  It had only been a second but it was all she needed.

Abby told Josh what the Highway Patrolman told her.  Evidently the driver of the car that hit him had not seen him in those few seconds.  The dozing driver thinking she was about to miss her turn quickly made the abrupt left to try and save the moment which unfortunately caught Josh unaware. 

The impact luckily was a glancing blow but that impact had threw him first back into the windshield of her car before he flew off forward and into the bushes.  The impact with the windshield was what knocked him unconscious which was also what tossed him into those bushes.

As Abby continued feeding Josh they made small talk discussing some of the things Josh might need for the next few days and then over the long term.  A doctor came in and explained Josh's injuries to him by starting first with the arm cast.   Josh was going to be in cast for six weeks minimum, eight would be even better the doctor had noted, and that was just for the cast on his arms.

Josh's halo cast would be a little longer by four to six weeks and could go beyond that depending on the rate of bone fusion the doctor said.  Josh was also fitted with braces for his knee and another for his ankle.  There were multiple contusions that would heal over the next few days, with a large one at the back of his leg.  He would be on pain pills for a time and he had a mild concussion from the windshield impact. 

Abby, standing across the bed from the doctor took notes promising Josh would be well cared for.  The doctor walking back to the end, picked up the chart for Josh's vitals and was just about done when Abby asked if she could talk with him in the hall.  Abby and the doctor stepped into the hall.

“Did they tell you that I've been approved to be his care giver,”  Abby noted.

“They did,”  the doctor noted taking Abby’s hand.

“The reason I’m out here is he’s very sensitive to the next topic which are his diapers,”  Abby said and added before the doctor could offer any comments, “doctor, he has asked me to mention that he’d like to continue with those rather than switch back to a catheter.”

“Frankly I don’t see any problem with his choices one way or another,”  the doctor said and then added, “I'll make a note of that on his discharge papers.  Did you have any other questions?”

“No, but I'd also like you to note on his papers and release instructions that his diapers are prescribed as well instead of the catheter so I can get them on his pharmacy order if you don't mind.  Otherwise, we’re fine,”  Abby noted.

“I'll do that at the desk right now.  If there is nothing else, I’ll continue with my next patient, and good luck to you,”  the doctor said taking Abby’s hand one last time before he turned and went down the hall.

Abby returned to the room.

"Am I good to go,"  Josh asked.

“He said you’re good to go, but we’re going to be managing a lot of pain for the next few days so they want to keep you here, so hang in there,”  Abby said and added, “and I’m going to take over your care.”

“You are,” Josh asked in a surprised tone.

“Josh, that was naughty of you listing me as your emergency contact without telling me, but since you did so I've accepted, and that’s water under the bridge now.  The thing is, you’ve already got a room and all we need to do is rent some equipment,"  Abby said.

"Are you sure you're okay with this,"  Josh asked.

"Yes.  Josh, I don't want to sound too greedy, but if you go into rehab it's three months that you're not at my place.  That means I’m out those three months rent so yes, I’m more than okay with it.  Besides the continued rent I get wages as your care giver and I can use the money,"  Abby said and added, "so frankly, I don't really mind."

"That's great,"  Josh said.

"More or less,"  Abby said and then added, "Josh, there is a little down side here."

"Like what,"  Josh asked.

"Well, for one, this also means a little more intimacy than we’ve had since you moved it so you're going to need to be prepared for that."

“I hadn't thought about that.  I’m getting nervous,”  Josh said.

“Nothing to be nervous about, just something to know about,”  Abby noted and then added, “I was a nurse for nearly thirty years.”

"I remember you saying that,"  Josh said.

"That's also going to include diapering you,"  Abby said quickly.

"Oh, don't worry about those.  I mean that's okay, those go away as soon as I get released,"  Josh said and then added, "I'm getting a catheter when I leave."

"Actually the doctor said no on the catheter,"  Abby said and added, "I just talked with him.  He was pretty clear on that, which means the diapers continue, but if you think about it, Josh changing a diaper or catheter doesn't make much difference one way or another.  It's still intimate contact."

"But why don't I get the catheter,"  Josh asked.

"I think it's for the same reason as now,"  Abby said and added, "let's not worry about it now.  I'm not bothered by if and you shouldn't be either."

"No, I guess not.  If it doesn't to you,"  Josh said and then added, "but then again you're not the one that's going to be wearing them."

"You'll get use to them,"  Abby said running a finger along his cheek.  She was going to make sure of it.  At least ten diapers a day she decided.  Ten diapers a day with baby wipes, lots of baby lotion and baby powder would get him use to diapers in no time. 

Abby shivered.

"Are you cold,"  Josh asked.

"Just caught a little chill,"  Abby said fibbing a little as the image of Josh getting his diaper changed faded.

[krystalasbaby2017]

Oh i can hardly wait.  Looks and sounds like Abby going to have a lot of fun.