Chapter 11
The therapy session lasted almost an hour, the reinforcing messages being eagerly accepted by Adrian’s befuddled mind and drug-induced hypnotic stupor. Sandra left a backdoor hypnotic portal open, so that any future sessions could be resumed almost immediately and probably without the need for medication. Adrian came round, as Sandra counted backwards from ten, he was nursing his dummy with enthusiasm as he opened his eyes.
“All done!” happily chirped his aunt “now get me the cigarettes you have hidden away” she ordered with a smirk. Adrian was up in a trice and pulled out the drawer from his desk and scrabbled beneath it. He produced an unopened packet that he handled as if they were radioactive.
“Not nithe aunty” he said with difficulty, past the teat of his dummy. He then threw them to the floor and stamped on them. Sandra was both delighted and amazed, that he had been such an easy and willing subject. She was normally quite successful with her technique, but this was a masterpiece, as he was almost suc-king his dummy to destruction.
“Good boy” she praised him “I am really pleased with you and now you will
not die from horrible diseases. You will smell much nicer as well and you will feel much better, won’t you?”
“Yeth” he replied
“Now let’s take out your do-di and put in on the side for later, shall we?” she asked gently
Adrian looked puzzled for a moment and then realised what he had in his mouth. He took hold of the ring and slowly eased it from between his lips, a small rivulet of his saliva followed the teat as he removed it. His look was not one of shock, it was not a look of shame thought Sandra, she felt exalted, his look was one of bitter disappointment and of sorrow.
“Tell you what” she said “let’s get this other matter sorted out now, then you can have it back”.
Sandra peeled off his protective training pants and threw them in his lidded bucket. She undid the blue-headed safety pins and carefully peeled back the soaking nappies. She removed a gadget from her doctor’s case and slowly inserted it into the Foley catheter working it gently. She smiled, the tool had worked and now with careful but slow deliberation she eased the tube until it was free of him.
“You go and have a shower” she told him “Then you can get dressed again”.
Adrian took to the shower as his aunt went in search of some dry pants for him to wear. Through the kitchen window she could see three pairs of terry towelling pants, two pairs of plastic pants, and a white bib flapping in the wind. He had nothing to wear.
She went upstairs and opened up the bags that Adrian had carried in for her. Two dozen extra large night time nappies and a dozen pairs of plastic baby pants in a suitable large size were soon in two piles on the desk by his bed. She took out half a dozen dummies in different colours and put those next to the nappies.
Adrian returned from his shower wrapped in a large towel. He looked distressed. “I cannot stop dripping” he said “I thought you said you had taken that thing out of me”. Sandra was genuinely surprised and not a little concerned.
“Lie down on this towel Adrian” she said “and cover yourself with this one for a moment”. She picked up the catheter and examined it. It was beyond faulty, it was dangerous, she could not think where it could have come from, perhaps it had been a medical sample, but whatever or wherever, it was lethal. The part that was designed to inflate had small spines within it, that were razor sharp. These had been inside him for more than twelve hours and could have cut him badly. She looked at the nappies she had taken off him, how could she have missed the blood. She now looked at the towel he held over him and that too had blood. It was rare for this procedure to cause bleeding but not impossible. The failure to stop the flow was unusual.
“Adrian, this is not unheard of, so don’t worry. I am going to put you on a course of antibiotics and we need to keep you super hydrated to keep away any potential bladder infection. I want you to drink as much water as you can. Luckily, I bought some protection with me just in case I could not remove the catheter today, so I am going to ask you to be brave for me. OK?”
Adrian looked pale and then looked almost longingly at the dummy by his pillow. Sandra saw his look and gave him his dummy which he took immediately. She folded one of the new nappies into a kite shape and slipped it under his bottom. She tugged at the two sides and fastened them with the nappy pins. Finally. she shook open the plastic pants and eased them over his feet and pulled them up his legs. She tucked in the stray parts of fluffy white nappy under the plastic protection and gave him a pat on the front of his pants.
Adrian seemed more than content suc-king on his dummy and seemed more than happy to be back in nappies. It had all been too much for him and he felt his eyes close as Sandra covered him with a blanket. What a bit of luck she thought; I left him with the suggestion that it would be nice to suc-k his dummy while wearing a nappy and the little fellow seems to have accepted it with no problems at all.