After oversleeping, I awoke to a completely full drainage balloon. I knew I could probably change it myself, but Mandy would have been disappointed. I made my way down the hallway to Mandy's room to wake her up. She had left her door open, probably so she could hear me if I needed her. From her doorway I started gently calling her, "Mandy... Mandy...Mandy!" She was always a sound sleeper. I walked in towards the end of her bed to give her foot a shake. I noticed that she was only half covered by her comforter and, as I walked around her bed, I could see that her legs and butt were outside the covers. She was laying on her right side face down with her left leg pulled up slightly. She was wearing a light grey pair of loose boxer-type sleeping shorts that had wedged their way up her butt crack in the chaos of her sleep. It was a view of my step-sister that I had never had.
I gave my head a shake and flipped the covers over her legs before grabbing her toe and giving it a shake. "Mandy!" I said.
"What?" she asked, getting her faculties together.
"My balloon thingy is completely full, we slept in and forgot to change it," I said.
"Okay," she said, stretching her arms above her head. "Just give me a minute and I'll come and take care of it."
I heard her get up and go to the bathroom. I short while later I heard the toilet flush and she came in to my room in her night coat.
"Jeeze, you weren't kidding," she said looking at the pouch of puss that was resting on my belly. She got the kit of supplies out, disconnected me and got the new balloon all hooked up.
It was an otherwise normal Sunday. We hung out, watched football, called Mom, and ate fish tacos. After dinner we curled up on opposite ends of the couch as we always did when we watched TV together.
"Home care is coming in the morning," she reminded me.
"Right," I said.
"You'll let me watch right?" Mandy asked.
"Yeah, I guess it will be fine. I imagine she's just going to change the pouch and make sure everything is working properly," I said.
"And what makes you so sure the nurse will be a 'she'?" Mandy questioned.
"Uh," I stammered. "I guess you got me there," I laughed.
"It probably will be though," Mandy said. "Nursing school is like 80% women."
"Wow," I said. "If I had known that stat I would have tried to get into nursing school," I joked.
Mandy gave me a punch in the arm, "You still wouldn't get laid!" she laughed.
"Guess the competition for single guys in school is pretty fierce then?" I asked.
"Yeah," Mandy said sounding disappointed. "It is no sausage fest, that's for sure!"
After doing some quick math in my head I said, "I guess the Doctors must have a bevy of single young nurses to work with when you all finally graduate to the hospitals?"
"I think you are probably right," she said. "It's kinda strange. I am in college, but not really dating because of the ratio factor and also the study time factor. Not really getting the whole party experience that the movies portray."
"You seem to be going out a lot more now on the weekends though?" I quizzed.
"Yeah, but it's just out for drinks with the girls from school. To be honest with you, that's another reason I appreciate this opportunity to take care of you. I'm getting some experience with different anatomy," she said, letting her statement linger.
"Oh..." I said somewhat taken back by her honesty. I wasn't sure how experienced Mandy had been with guys, but I wasn't expecting her to tell me. No twenty year old guy would ever openly admit to such a thing. "Sorry, I don't mean to sound so shocked, I just assumed you had been with..."
"Nope!" she cut me off. "Matt and I had our hand down each other's pants once but that was as far as that went before I broke up with him."
"Glad to hear it," I said. "That guy was a loser."
"Yeah," Mandy agreed.
After a bit of an awkward silence, I let Mandy know I was heading for bed.
"Do you need anything?" she asked.
"Nah, I'm fine for tonight." I said. "Probably try a shower again tomorrow, if you're around?"
"I don't have class until the afternoon," she said.
"Cool," I said.
I took my pills and hit the bed.
Mandy woke me up the next morning shortly after 8am. "Hey, the nurse should be here soon. You better get yourself together," she said.
I got up and went to the washroom, brushed my teeth and gave my armpits a quick scrub by the sink. In the back of my mind I was hoping that Kelly might be the one paying me a visit. Mandy had said that the home care nurses are a private company, separate from the hospital staff, so seeing Kelly this morning was unlikely.
The door bell rang and I heard Mandy greet and invite the nurse into the house. "He's in here," she said.
Mandy was followed into the room by a tall, middle-aged black nurse. "Hello Marcus," she said with a thick Caribbean accent. "My name is Janet, I'm here for your home care visit."
"Hello Janet," I said.
Janet began emptying some supplies from a small duffle.
"Where do you want to set up?" I asked.
"Stay comfortable," she said. "Right here will be fine."
"Is there anything I can get you?" Mandy asked Janet.
"A pitcher of warm water, please," she replied.
Mandy nodded and left the room. Janet took what looked to be a pricing gun from her bag and held it up to my forehead until it beeped. "No fever," she said with a smile. She took a blood pressure cuff and slipped it over my left arm and asked, "How have you been feeling?"
"Fine," I said. "No pain, no trouble eating."
"That's good," she said making a few notes on her clipboard.
Mandy returned with the pitcher of water and sat on the bed to my right, making sure she had a good view of the action. Janet looked at her and looked back at me. "Is this you girlfriend?" she asked.
"My sister," I answered, understanding what Janet was getting at. "It's okay, she is studying to be a nurse and I am fine with her being here for this."
"Okay," was all Janet said. She tucked a stethoscope under the arm cuff and pumped the ball inflating it tightly. She then released the pressure slowly. She undid the cuff and packed it away, recording the results on her clipboard.
"Let's take a look under here," she said raising my shirt slightly.
The balloon bag was only about three quarters full. The volume of output had slowed down as the Doctor had said. Janet popped the balloon off and replaced it. Mandy told her that the output was slowing, which was good, since the nurse only had the smaller size with her. She gently lifted an edge of the bandage covering the tube's entry point into my abdomen. She called Mandy over to her side of the bed to let her have a good look. Mandy seemed delighted that the Nurse was willing to let her shadow her a bit.
"Looks fine," Janet said. "Just make sure you keep it dry."
"Got it," I said.
Janet made a couple more notes on her clipboard and I turned down my shirt, expecting the visit to be over.
"I have to check your penis," she said, referring to her notes.
"The rash is almost gone," I said. "The cream is working well."
Apparently my word wasn't good enough. Janet was a formidable nurse. It made sense that she was suited for home care. Going into patients homes alone would be difficult for a Nurse like Kelly, and even Mandy. Janet would be able to pickup a fallen patient or help them to their feet with ease if she needed to. She also had some authority in her tone, which I am sure served her well with older, stubborn patients who resented having to be cared for. Without a word, she grabbed a hold of my waistband and pulled my underwear down, all the way down, past my ankles, and off my feet.
I looked at Mandy who looked back at me wide-eyed.
Janet gloved up and returned to me, taking a hold of my penis, lifting it and turning it in her hand.
"Yes," she said. "Probably a few more treatments and you'll be fine."
She emptied a small packet of bath salts into the pitcher of water and squeezed a bit of anti-bacterial soap in as well. She took a small sponge, soaked it, wrung it out, and gently wiped my face with it. It was a strange feeling. The sponge wasn't wet enough for me to even drip onto my bed sheets, yet it did feel soothing and cleansing.
"It just opens the pores and cleans away any germs," she said to Mandy.
She wiped my arms, neck, and chest before moving down to my legs. Mandy hovered closely over her shoulder watching the process closely. She wrung out the sponge again before wiping down my limp dick and balls. She gently wiped across the whole surface of my penis before dropping it against my belly and wiping my sack. She pulled on it slightly before wiping.
"You have to stretch it out to clean between the folds," she explained to Mandy who was looking on with fascination.