The first few days after coming home from the hospital, I passed the time by lying or sitting around the house watching TV, surfing the Internet and moaning about how much my head hurt. If I were truthful with myself, it wasn’t so much the pain as the fact that I was bored out of my frick’n mind! I had a few visitors such as Mark, Sean, Damien and his grandparents Bill and Gladys. Oh, and I got a visit from Mike too. Mark had already informed him as to what had happened and he wanted to come visit me to check for himself, that I was really ok.
I think he was glad to see that I was ok and frankly, seeing him really cheered me up a lot too. Without actually asking him about it, I could tell that he’d put the whole party pants wetting incident behind him. It feels good knowing that I can count him as one of my friends now too. What was even cooler was when Mike sat down on the side of my bed and I could hear the unmistakable crinkling sound of a diaper. Do you know how hard it is to secretively check out if some dude is wearing a diaper while he’s looking and talking right at you?
Mike stayed for about an hour. At first, he started out sitting close to the foot of my bed but as we talked, he kept scooting closer and closer to my head. I don’t think he was consciously doing this; he was just talking animatedly, waving his arms and moving around a lot. Before too long he was sitting less than two feet from where my head was resting on a stack of pillows. He was close enough that I could make out the unmistakable scent of baby powder. I was so disappointed when mom came in to give me my medication. When she did, Mike moved all the way back to the foot of the bed again where I couldn’t smell him anymore.
Right after Mike left, I saw the coolest diaper commercial on TV. It was a commercial for Attends Youth Incontinence Pants. The same kind that Mark and I had used for the Emergency Diapering Kit. They showed a classroom of kids that looked like they might have been in the fifth or sixth grade and then the announcer said, “Can you spot the child who suffers from incontinence? Neither can their classmates.” Of course, I sat there the rest of the day watching that same exact channel until I got to see the commercial two more times. I probably would have continued watching that channel the rest of the day if my stupid sister hadn’t come home and felt the need to sit with me for several hours.
Don’t get me wrong, I love my sister, but in all honestly, I don’t like her much. I mean, if we weren’t brother and sister, I can say with all certainty, that we would not be friends at all.
