Isan Dawn: Chapter Four
Chapter Four
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Chapter Four
A minute later we were standing outside of a door and the doctor was looking at me with both hope and trepidation. "I hope to hell that you can help Aiden. He needs a break right now."
Nodding I stepped through the door and almost instantly my nose wrinkled at the odour in the room. It smelled like someone had used the room itself for a toilet. Shocked I looked over at the doctor who was also wrinkling his human nose.
"He's had some bladder control issues so the nurses here placed him in a diaper."
"This doesn't smell like urine."
He nodded as I looked over and spotted, the sleeping cub on the bed. He was covered, to his neck, in the thin hospital blanket and from the way his body was twitching his sleep was far from deep.
I walked over and waved my hand to the doctor that I could handle this without his interference before sitting down and looking at the young face of the cub. He had the classical tabby fur corporation with cream coloured stripes on a marmalade orange base. His head-fur was a darker brown colouration and I suspected there probably other parts of his body that shared the same colours.
After a couple moments more he whimpered in his sleep and his green-gold eyes flickered open and he saw me. "Who're you?" He asked softly.
"Hi there kitten, my name is Matt." I replied before gently pulling him from under the sheets and into a warm hug.
"Please, can you get a nurse to get this thing off of me?" He asked, one of his small hands grasping at the waistband of the diaper he was wearing.
The white garment, which was obviously a modified toddler's diaper, sagged in the back from his deposit and he was near tears. The nurse who'd placed him in the diaper had wrapped some medical tape around his waist several times in order to prevent him from tampering with it.
I thought about it for a second before I picked him up, and he cried softly as my hand under his bottom pressed the contents of the messy garment against his bottom. "I have a better idea. How about I change you myself?"
"You would do that?" He asked softly.
"Why shouldn't I?" I replied myself with a question. I was keeping my voice calm but internally I was furious. This wasn't any way to treat a child, any child, no matter what issues they had.
He looked up at me, his eyes reflecting gratitude and relief. "That would be nice."
"You having trouble holding onto your pee?" I asked softly.
"Yeah, it comes out differently and feels... different." He replied as I laid him down on the bed and looked around before spotting the supplies.
"You can hold your bottom though?"
"Yeah, that part is easy... but the nurses don't listen to me and only come in four times a day."
I growled softly at his statement as I used a pair of scissors to cut the tape that held his diaper closed. "Does it hurt?"
He whimpered softly nodding as I began cleaning the region covered by the diaper. I was very gentle but all the same there were some areas that I touched that caused him to cry softly. The soft fur between his legs and on his bottom had trapped the mess against his skin causing a rather nasty case of diaper-rash to develop. "Can you stay still for a moment Aiden?" I asked.
"Yeah." He replied cocking his head slightly, the question obvious in his eyes.
"I'm just going to get some clippers and some lotions so that we can heal those rashes that you seem to have picked up."
"Rashes?"
"Yes, you have a rather serious case of diaper rash. The nurse's lack of due attention has allowed it to get rather bad."
"Oh." He managed to say softly as I walked to the door to be met by the doctor.
"Is he responding"?
Nodding in response to his question I continued with my request, "I need a pair of clippers and some destin."
"Diaper cream?" He inquired.
"Yes, Aiden had a rather bad case of diaper rash."
"I shall have to talk to the ward nurse about that." He replied moving down the hall. "In the meantime you shall get the items that you need."
"Thanks." I replied before going back to see if I could make Aiden feel better. "Aiden I can tell that this has been a hard time for you." I softly said to him while I gently rubbed his exposed belly with my hand.
"My mom and sister are... gone." He whimpered haltingly with tears running from his eyes.
Nodding I gently gathered the crying cub into my arms rocking him slowly before going over and closing the door with a foot. With that done I sat down on the bed again, my flimsy hospital robe around my waist as I softly hugged and rocked Aiden. His head was perched between my modest breasts as he cried himself out. I doubted, highly, that this would be the last time that I would need to comfort him in this manner.
Suddenly there was a strong flare of sensation in my right breast as something warm, and damp surrounded the nipple and a feeling of suction was applied against it. Looking down I realized that Aiden had, for some reason, latched onto my breast with his muzzle and was nursing like a child who was much younger. However, that did seem to help me since I had already been informed that they were lactating and his nursing was serving to ease the growing discomfort in my breasts. Now though that feeling of discomfort was beginning to recede, or at least it was on my right side.
"Oh... I brought those items."
I heard a voice say and I looked up slowly to see the doctor standing at the open door watching me with Aiden. "I am as surprised as you are doc, he just started, but now that he is doing it..."
"You don't want him to stop." The doctor finished for me.
"What's so different about me?" I asked, my voice soft as I supported Aiden's upper torso in my arms. "I mean you already told me that I am lactating, why would I be one of the only ones here at this hospital that is?"
"Your guess is as good as ours, but you've seemed to have found a good use for it." He replied nodding to the cub as I gently nudged him off of my depleted right breast to my, still aching left side.
"He's hurting on the inside, and for whatever reason he seems to be responding to me as... a surrogate mother."
"I am no child psychologist but from what I can see here I think he needs what you're giving him."
I nodded and smiled seeing Aiden's belly bulging slightly from the milk that he'd drank from me. "Doctor would it be a bad thing if, when my sister gets here, I take Aiden with me?"
He looked at me, his hazel eyes clear and contemplative, "It would be a clear violation of god only knows how many rules, but I can see here and now, how it would be beneficial to you, to Aiden, and to this facility if you did. He needs a mother, and since his birth mother is deceased, you seem to have found a way to take her place. No child nurses from a woman that he doesn't trust implicitly and he's showing you that he trusts you absolutely. Now don't ever violate his trust, it would be the saddest thing ever if you did."
I nodded softly looking down as I noticed that Aiden wasn't suckling as hard as he had been doing before. The reason was because he'd fallen asleep, only unlike when I'd first come into the room this sleep was smooth and undisturbed.
"He looks better already." The doctor said.
"Yes... but I really should get a diaper on him before he springs a leak on me."
He nodded as I stood up and headed back to the table, to see if I could tend to him before he woke up again. "I think he needs this sleep, since before, it appeared, that he wasn't really sleeping all that well at all."
"Yes I could see that. His sleep seemed, disturbed, as if he was at the mercy of his dreams." I told him as I finished trimming the fur and applied the cream to the areas of his bottom that needed treatment.
"He shouldn't be too hard to train, since he was toilet trained before."
"That is entirely up to him to decide." I stated as I finished the job, using some medical tape to seal up the slit I had made in the back of the diaper to accommodate for his tail.
"You will encourage him won't you?"
"Of course we'll encourage him sir, but as I said it is also up to him to decide how quickly he'll regain control over his body. After all we have to remember on major thing, this is his body that we're talking about."
After a moment he nodded softly conceding the point. "If you'll fill out the basic paperwork for discharge we'll get you on your way."
Picking up the sleeping child again I nodded and looked around the room before I spotted a few small things that belonged to Aiden including a rather worn looking teddy bear. "Would you mind grabbing those things doc? I don't think that Aiden would like to be without those few things, after all, like most younger children he has things that he's attached to."
He nodded gather the items up before we returned to the lobby to be met by my sister, who was wearing what appeared to be a skirt and a rather tight looking T-shirt.
"This used to one of your largest night-shirts love."
"It's not like we wear a lot to bed sis."
"That's god's own honest truth." She responded back to me chuckling softly.
"You leave him out of it sis, his followers have never done us any favors." I responded adjusting my hold on Aiden's sleeping form.
"Oh... he's adorable... how old is he?" Helen asked me softly.
"His name is Aiden Cooper and he just turned eight." I answered softly as I placed my nose between his ears and inhaled, picking up the rather unique scent of the cub in my arms.
"Why is he wearing a diaper then?"
"The doctor said his control isn't coming back as easily as it has for us so the ward nurses put him in diapers to cut down on the mess."
"Okay... you ready to leave?"
"Yeah, just have to sign some forms and we can go."
She nodded and gently took Aiden out of my arms allowing me to sit down and sign to forms. Finally I was getting out of this damned hospital, I was getting tired of smelling the combined smells of antiseptic, cleaners, and illness.
The doctor turned to me, and I tail-grinned softly as I noticed a slight golden cast to his brown eyes. "You take care now you hear, I don't want to see you in here again unless it's just for a friendly visit."
"Of course doc, don't be a stranger." I replied handing him a small card with the address of the house that Helen and I owned before turning and stepping outside.