I had just turned 18 years old, and it was turning out to be one of the worse years of my life.
In the middle of the summer I had been riding quads with my best buddy, Jim. We were going fast, too fast, and I hit a large hole.
You get the picture. I flipped the stupid thing and got flung off. I broke my right arm and collar bone, and I busted one knee and twisted the other.
I was in pain. I had to have a pin in one knee, a cast on the other leg, a cast on one arm, I was to say the least bed ridden for the rest of the summer, and longer.
My parents weren't too upset with me, my dad had insurance to cover it so it didn't hurt us financially. They both took a couple weeks off of work, but after that they had to go back.
They both had full time jobs so they couldn't come by much. It didn't really bother me though, except for one thing. Since I was unable to do anything for myself, even bathe, I had to let other people do it.
Mom did it for the first couple weeks but when she had to go back to work, one of the nurses had to. I was extremely embarrassed, especially if it was a girl, for obvious reasons. I was pretty depressed for quite awhile and I think the nurses noticed and knew what the problem was. I was too shy to say anything. They brought this other guy in, his name was Josh. He turned out to be really cool. He would laugh and have fun, and most of all poke fun at me. While he was washing me he would talk about stupid things to take my mind off of it. Sometimes after he was done working he would come in and hang out with me for a couple of hours.
After the accident I couldn't really feel anything, anywhere. It wasn't really a numbness, I just didn't feel anything. The doctor said it was nothing to worry about, he said it was a sort of shock from all the damage that was done to me at once. After about the first month I started getting some feeling back. I didn't feel much pain since they had me on some kind of pain medication, but the feeling did start to return. I could feel my leg itching inside my cast, things like that.
Things had become pretty routine by now. Josh would come in every morning and wake me up.
He'd pull the curtain closed around my bed and start the day off with a bath. I usually just wore a pair of boxers and no shirt, he would take the boxers off, give me a sponge bath, and help me put some new ones on. Well on this particular morning I was sleeping and he didn't wake me up. He just took my boxers off and started cleaning me. I eventually woke up because I felt something. I opened my eyes and he was cleaning my chest with the sponge. "Well it's about time sleepy-head!" he said.
"Why didn't you wake me up?" I asked.
"I thought I would let you sleep awhile longer, they said you didn't fall asleep until late last night." This was true, but it still felt awkward. That's when I saw it. I had apparently regained feeling in my member, because it was currently standing at full attention.
I whispered a silent curse. He heard me and looked at where I was looking and started laughing. Typical Josh, he would laugh anything up. "Don't worry about it man! You're young, and it's been over a month since it's had any attention!" He did have a point, he always did. He always treated me like he was an older and much wiser brother, even though he could only barely be two years my senior.
But then again I didn't exactly look (or act) like I was 18. I stood at a mere 5' 10'', with blonde hair and blue eyes, and a baby face. I wasn't bad looking, don't get me wrong, but I looked like I could be 15 or 16. I was pretty well built, skinny but not too skinny, I had recently started working out before the accident so I had the beginnings of a six pack.