Chapter 2 – Matt arrives
I was playing X-Box when he arrived, and we played for about 2 more hours, ate some snacks and drank tons of soda and then played some more. After about an hour, he paused the game and was sniffing the air.
“Smells like somebody shit their pants” he said
I guess I must have blushed a bit. I would have really thought I had all the poop out of me, but I guess not.
“Eeew gross did you poop yourself”
I sniffed “I guess I must have, it happens” I said as I set the controller down and got ready to go to find my mom.
“What do you mean ‘it happens’, do you poop yourself often?”
“Yes I do, much to my dislike sometimes. Didn’t you wonder why you have been to the bathroom twice since you got here, and I drank tons more pop than you, but never budged? My Spina bifida affects more than just my legs, it affects my bladder and bowels as well, and I have no control over them”
“So, what, you wear a diaper?”
“Yep, all the time. I don’t announce it to the world, but there is no reason to deny it. Now if you’ll excuse me, I need to get changed.” I went to my room and got my supplies out and transferred to the changing table/spare bed. Got that done and my diaper disposed of in the diaper pail. I opened my bedroom door, to find Matt waiting on me.
“So you change in your bed room and not the bathroom, why?”
“Well I have a place I can roll over and get changed on in here, and that is where my diapers and stuff are”
“So that’s your room?”
“Yep, that’s my bed, and the spare bed that I use to change on, my dresser for my clothes, and the diaper cabinet, and this is my closet” I open my closet and show him more clothes and the stacks upon stacks of diapers.
“Why so many diapers… I mean you have like 10 bags in here; and your shirts have these snaps on the bottom”
“Well I go through a lot, and I did some testing for the makers of the diapers and they sent me about 200 cases, I have a storage shed with about 150 more cases left. That should last a good year or two.
Those shirts are called onsies, the back of the shirt comes up in-between your legs and snaps, it is a shirt that never comes un-tucked. It helps keep the diaper hidden when I am in my chair and moving around and transferring.” I explained.
“By the way, you can sleep in here on the spare bed, I washed it off with Lysol and I used a changing pad when I was on it, and mom will get some sheets. I also have another bedroom that is normal if you don’t want to sleep in here”
“Why does your room look like a toddler room? Your sheets are Winnie the pooh and tigger, and you have a pooh and tigger on your bed.”
“I guess I just never grew up, acting little is kind of my way of coping with the hand that life dealt me, I mean look at me, I am in a wheel chair and in diapers too. It is not all fun. Let’s go watch a movie; I got some new DVD’s”
I noticed that Matt had moved closer to the diaper cabinet and I think once he even touched one of the diapers. Something tells me that the tough-guy attitude is a show. Time will tell.
“Boys I am headed to town to get dinner. Justin, your dad is down at the miller’s helping them fix their combine. I will be back in about an hour; will you be ok till I get back?”
“Sure we will be fine” I replied and unpaused the DVD.
“Hey Justin, can I ask you something?” Matt said
“Sure”
“Your diapers, what do they feel like, ya know to wear them?”
“Well I really don’t know, about the only area I can feel is right where the waistband is on the back. Why, do you ask?”
“well…… ummm, no reason, just always wondered” He said stammering and quickly dropped the topic
We continued playing until my mom came back from town with groceries and pizza for dinner. “Justin, everything doing good” She asked trying to in a round about way ask if I needed a change. “Did you change positions lately”
“Yes before you left I got off my butt and shifted” I said signifying that I had changed. We had an almost code language about changing diapers
“ok good to know. Pizza’s ready, grab a plate and dig in.” She said
We all took about 3 slices, leaving some for dad and some left overs. We all went back for just one more slice before dad came in.
“Did you get Miller’s combine fixed?” Mom asked dad
“Yeah, he’s back up and running. Glad we could get it fixed so he could get his work done this weekend, supposed to rain next week” Dad said
The 4 of us had some talk around the table. “So Matt have you lived here all your life?”
“Yes sir, same house” Matt said
“You like the school, teachers and staff” Dad asking to kind of see if it will be a good place for me?
“Yes, the teachers and staff are nice, of course there are a couple of bullies, but no big deal”
“That’s good, I just always look out for Justin, we’ve had problems in the past”
After dinner mom, dad and us watched a TV program and then mom turned the TV off
“Ok you two, you don’t have to go to bed, but you do need to be quiet, Justin’s dad needs to get up really early. Why don’t you get ready for bed and then you two watch DVD’s in Justin’s bedroom, or take the X-Box in there” Mom said
“Ok, why don’t you get what you are going to sleep in and go to the bathroom and change, I need to help Justin get ready for bed” Mom said
Matt grabbed his bag that he had dropped in the living room and went into the bathroom as mom and I headed towards my little room.
“So, has Matt seen this room, or were you using the other bedroom?” Mom asked. To which I indicated the little room. “Are you OK showing off this room with Matt” Mom asked
“Yes, I had to change while you were gone and I had to change and he caught me coming out of here. I showed him my room. I think he is ok with this side of me. Something gives me the vibe that he may have some sort of interest in diapers too, I am just not sure.”
“OK, that is your choice” Mom said as she finished helping me get changed.
Mom opened the bedroom door to find Matt exiting the bathroom. “So were you wanting to sleep in here on the spare bed, or we have a spare bedroom?”
“Here is fine, do you have some sheets for it”
“Oh yes honey, and I cleaned it off with some Clorox too” Mom said as she reached into the closet for the sheets and started to make the bed, which Matt helped her with.
After she left, Matt sat down on the bed, hearing the crinkle of the plastic covered mattress that was used for my changing area.
“Dude, where’s your TV at” Matt said, finally noticing that I had no TV in my room.
“Watch this” I said as I got my big remote out. The wall above the changing table turned blue with a DVD logo on it. “I got a projector for myTV, bought it with my diaper testing money”
“Why did we not play X-box in here and are you serious that you got paid for diaper testing?” Matt asked
“I was not sure that you would be cool with the diaper stuff; normally I don’t let new friends see my real bedroom, I usually use a spare bedroom that we have setup to look like a 13 year old’s room. To answer your second question, Yes, I get paid to test diapers. Most incontinent people are too self-conscious to ever talk about their conditions, and it is hard to find test subjects who can produce the results like an incontinent person”
“You mean they have to find people who don’t need diapers to test them?”
“Yep, because people who are not incontinent will hold their pee till they have to go and then let it all out at once, where as me, I just spurt out a little at a time, sometimes I just dribble. I mean look at the pay I make….
My diapers are usually covered by Medicaid, but they are crappy (no pun intended) diapers; with my testing money and what they give me of the product, I get the best of the best…. Trust me, I have tested them all. I am even in ads for the diaper company and suppliers in Europe. I thought that doing photos for ads here in the US might not be good, but in Europe, nobody will know me. That got me another $7,000 just for the photo shoot, and commercials. Now, mom and dad make me put most of it in the bank, it is supposed to be for my college, or stuff like that”
By this time the movie is ready to begin and I patted the mattress of my bed and told Matt to “climb in, there is plenty of room” I said as I scooted over to the edge and he climbed up into the bed and we watched the latest harry potter DVD.
“Matt, I have really never had friends before. Where we lived at before I was always the cripple, I could not play sports. It is cool having a friend who enjoys hanging out and playing video games and watching DVD’s. “
“You really are the only person I have ever had sleep over, most people leave about the time I get ready for bed, and when I would go to their house, I would not want to stay overnight or too long cause of needing to change my diapers.”
We watched something on Nick at Night before Matt said he was tired, secretly I was too. He went to his bed, said good night and I turned off the lights