Stepmother, Scarlett, is devoted to her handicapped stepson, Jerry.
Even though I'm crippled and confined to a wheelchair, I have a lot to be thankful for. I'm thankful for my stepmother, Scarlett. If it wasn't for her taking care of me, I'd be in a nursing home. I can't imagine a 27-year-old man living in a nursing home and surrounded by old people.
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Author's Note:
This is a true story written for Jerry after becoming paralyzed from the waist down from a horrific car accident that claimed his father's life.
When my father, Frank, crashed his car, I was 27 years old and my stepmother, Scarlett, was 42 years old. Unfortunately, not surviving the crash, my father was killed in the accident. Not a passenger in the car with us, fortunately, Scarlett, was at work at the time of the accident. With her normally a front seat passenger, had she been in the car, with my father crashing his car in a tree, even if she had been wearing her seatbelt, she may have been severely injured or killed.
No longer able to live on my own and care for myself, this story is about me living with my stepmother as my primary caregiver. As if I'm her helpless baby, every day she bathes me, dresses me, gets me out of bed and in my wheelchair and cooks for me. No doubt had my father survived the accident; he would have been jealous of the attention that she dotes on me. Instead of allowing his second wife to care for me in the way that she does, he would have put me in a nursing home.
'Sorry, Dad,' but I'm glad that you're dead,' I thought in selfish disregard of him. 'Cheating on Mom long before she died of breast cancer, you were nothing but an evil bastard. Yet, grateful for the one good thing that you did, I'm glad that you married Scarlett. The only thing you did right, she's been my God send.'
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Not only am I living with my stepmother but also, I'm totally dependent on her. Yet, better than having a round-the-clock, live-in nurse, thank God for my stepmother, Scarlett, caring for me. She's my sweet angel of mercy sent and delivered to me from Heaven.
Helping to make my life as normal as she can, I owe her for my more comfortable quality of my life. Treating me as if she's my real mother instead of my stepmother, she's kind, loving, patient, and caring. I don't know which strip club my father found her but I don't know what I'd do without her.
Fortunately, and gratefully, my father was rich. He left me and my stepmother a small fortune and a hefty life insurance policy when he died. As long as we're careful with the money, neither one of us will have to work for the rest of our lives.
'Thank you, Dad,' I thought.
I have plenty enough money to hire a full-time, live-in nurse. Yet, with Scarlett, devoted to me, we decided and mutually agreed that instead of having a stranger living with us in our house, she'd quit her job and care for me full time. With us having plenty of money to support ourselves, she no longer needed to work as a secretary in my father's defunct, law firm.
I discovered that he met her when she was a stripper in an exclusive, private gentleman's club. Even now, she definitely has the body to be a stripper. Yet, having more respect for her than removing her clothes while dancing around a pole, I love her.
I love my stepmother in the way that a stepson loves his stepmother and in the way that a stepson should never sexually lust over his stepmother. I can't help myself from imagining her stripping herself naked. I can't help myself from imagining having sex with her. I wish that I could have sex with Scarlett.
With my stepmother caring for me, washing me and dressing me, that meant my she'd be seeing me naked. Normally, I'd be sexually excited about her seeing my naked body while washing my naked body, but I can no longer get and maintain an erection. Now, it doesn't matter if she sees me naked and/or even if I see her naked. Sadly, I'd still have the same limp dick reaction.
I have a physical therapist who exercises me, an occupational therapist who helps to make my daily life easier with tips and mobility suggestions, and a registered nurse who takes my vital signs. They come to my home for an hour each once a week to interrupt my boring day of watching TV, playing video games, and playing board games with my stepmom. No longer going outside to drive my new Mustang GT, or entertain friends, I sit at home alone in my wheelchair vegetating and deteriorating.
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I went from a four-day hospital stay to recoup at a rehabilitation center for two weeks. Always heathy and physically active before, my life has become a handicapped nightmare now. Having already lost much of my muscle mass by not moving, walking, and/or exercising, I'm looking forward to the day when I can walk and exercise again. Before the accident, having exercised all of my life, I was physically fit.
The good news, if I deem that as good news is, after testing me for this and that, and ruling out this and that, my doctor finally believed that I may have Normal Pressure Hydrocephalus. He believed that NPH was caused by the devastating blow to my body from the car accident. Basically, Normal Pressure Hydrocephalus is a fancy term for having excess fluid in my brain.
If I do have NPH, a relatively easy fix, albeit one that requires surgery, a surgeon drills a hole in the top of my head. Then, he installs a narrow tube with an adjustable shunt to drain excess spinal fluid in my brain to my stomach. Only, the surgery works in only 50 percent of people.
Sometimes, the conditions reappear within two years. The only side effects to the surgery are infections and rejections which are rare and that may require them to redo the surgery or remove the shunt. With a lot that can go wrong, I'm worried about having the surgery. Yet, I'm willing to risk it to walk again.
With me able to afford the best medical care and the best surgeons in the world, the chances of me having side effects are slim. I just hope that with the surgery that I can walk again, even with the help of a rollator. Unfortunately, even after the surgery, with one not having anything to do with the other, I still may or may not have erections.
Presently, I can't walk more than a few steps. I'm unable to get around unless Scarlett helps me to my wheelchair. I must wear a transfer, gait belt for her to hold onto me so that I don't fall. Moreover, difficult for a 27-year-old man to fathom, the hardest thing to endure, I can no longer get and maintain erections.
I can no longer have sex. Besides not being able to walk, not being able to get and maintain an erection is devastating. I can't even masturbate myself with my limp dick being so unresponsive to my horny hand.
Yet, things could be so much worse for me than they are now. I could have been killed in that car accident. I could be dead. I could have been paralyzed from the neck down. At least I can still use my hands and arms to eat and to wipe myself after using the toilet.
Having more compassion that I never had before, my heart goes out to all those people who have even more serious handicaps than me. I can't even imagine being born deaf and/or blind and/or without arms and/or legs. At least, I can hear and see. At least, I still have use of my arms. Moreover, a miracle that I hope happens, with them giving me hope for a normal life, doctors tell me that, one day, after the surgery, I may walk again.
Yet, sometimes I think what is worse than death is if I needed to continue to have full-time therapy at a rehab center. Bored lying around in bed all day and deteriorating while waiting for my physical therapist to come and get me to work out for an hour or two was a nightmare. At least, I'm out of the hospital, out of the rehab center, and finally living at home with my beloved stepmother. At least with my stepmother caring for me, I don't have nurses interrupting my day to continually take my vital signs, take my blood, and stick me with needles.
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The biggest concession that we had to make was selling my father's beautiful, 6,500 square foot, 5 bedroom, 6 bath, three floor house to live in a more manageable 3,000 square foot, one floor, 3 bedroom, 4 bath house. Stairs are an impossible task when confined to a wheelchair. With this one-story house having an open floor plan and with plenty of wide-open space, I can wheel myself around without crashing into anything and without being required to climb stairs.
The center of all of my attention, my stepmother has become my whole universe. Even though I was sexually attracted to her before the accident, with me no longer getting erections, I think of her more as my mother than as my hot stepmother. Of course, with my father's discriminating eye for strippers, Scarlet is as intelligent s she is beautiful, sexy, and shapely. She's 5'10" tall, has long, lush, red hair, big, beautiful, green eyes, and huge, double D cup breasts.