Sunday, September 24, 2017


Losing A Life-Josie and Her Leg Braces
Introduction: This story was posted by Plasterman on the old cast stories website and had been re-posted by Ahiru., without credit. I don't mind re-posts, but PLEASE credit me for writing it if you so desire to repost it somewhere! The title, “Losing A Life” is not literal, it is an opposite of the admonition to “Get a Life”. This new story is about a girl who loves knee braces and acquires a HKAFO through meeting a handicapped girl who wanted to merely dump them and go on with life without them so she wouldn’t attract attention. The main character doesn’t care about the consequences the braces would bring, as she always wanted a pair to wear forever. So here we go with the story, based loosely on The ILUVBraces website story’s character Josie:
Chapter 1
Josie meandered through the large expanse of New York’s streets. She was a fairly young teenager about 15 years old and made the trip into the huge city by herself, against her mother’s warnings about going there alone. But she had to unwind after an especially torturous day of teasing by her high school classmates. She made the remark about wishing she was handicapped like some people who always needed leg braces and crutches or a wheelchair. The kids, not understanding her, started calling her a freak, and since she was somewhat of a pushover, one of the girls, named Cindy, offered to make her one by breaking her neck for her and started to tackle her. Some friendly boys rescued her from big Cindy, who was huge and very moody due to her own mother’s long term disability so she took her frustration out on Josie, especially after hearing what Josie said. How could anyone want to be crippled like Cindy’s poor mom with all her pain and depression?
As Josie wandered around, she came closer to the main area of the park again, near 5th Avenue. A very well dressed young teenage girl, about Josie’s age and apparently exactly Josie’s size, both height and weight, was on forearm crutches, with long stainless steel leg braces that went above her knees, as revealed by her striking, expensive miniskirt , above which was a very expensive fur coat. As Josie approached, she noticed the girl was crying. Not exactly the shy type, and not intimidated by the other girl’s apparent wealth, Josie immediately went and asked her why she was crying. The other girl, whose name was Amanda, explained to Josie, after they introduced each other, that she couldn’t stand wearing the leg braces, even though her legs were essentially useless from Cerebral Palsy, and she wanted to just look like other girls, even if she just had to sit in a wheelchair. Seeing the opportunity, Josie then asked Amanda what she intended to do with the braces.
“Well, who in hell would want them? I’m putting them in the trash whether my parents like it or not!”
Josie countered,” I’ll take them if you are going to throw them out! After all, today is October 15 and I still need to get my Halloween costume together. Please forgive me, but I do want to find out what it’s like to be handicapped and need braces! I’d appreciate it so much if I can buy them from you.”
Amanda smiled and replied “I don’t need the money! My dad’s a billionaire and he gives me over $10,000 to live on each week. Here’ let me take them off and I’ll mail the crutches to you, or, walk me over to that limousine over there”, she said; pointing over to a beautiful, brand new stretch Cadillac limousine. “My driver has the wheelchair that I use.”
Josie walked over and happily took the braces which were fairly heavy and the crutches. “These are awfully heavy. I’ll collapse for sure if I carry these home!” Josie exclaimed.
Amanda then said drily, “If you want to learn what it’s like to be handicapped, why not put them on now and start to experience it!” Josie then asked Amanda to help her put them on. Josie had then put on by Amanda, who showed her how to adjust the straps and hinges (with a hexagon wrench). The driver, as instructed by Amanda, drove to a different part of the city, nearer to the Penn Central Station so it would look more normal for a girl to be stepping out of a limo with braces, rather than be seen by people who had just seen the same girl walking normally just moments before, plus Josie was closer to the commuter rail to upstate New York, anticipating difficulties from walking for the first time with the braces and crutches.
Chapter 2
Upon entering the commuter rail station at Penn Central, Josie was immediately greeted by an attendant of Amtrak. He appeared unusually friendly and willing to help, as Josie, even though she was only 15 years old, had rode Amtrak many times before with her friends or family, back and forth from Tarrytown and all she had ever seen from the Amtrak attendance was surliness or at best, indifference. Then she remembered, this guy must either be feeling sorry, thinking I am a cripple with these braces or thinks I am all the more attractive with them on. So, trying to not appear too obvious, Josie tried to get more of a glimpse of his eyes and body language, as he helped her put her knapsack onto the awaiting train. Sure enough, she saw the telltale signs of guys who were “devotees” as she had found out about them on the internet. He didn’t look at her eyes frequently as a man who felt sorry for her would, but seemed to stare unceasingly at her leg braces! Then she gulped, these braces WERE now HER’S, and from now on, if anyone saw her, regardless of who they were, even her own family, they would have to regard her as a CRIPPLE, or in today’s politically correct speech, “physically challenged”.
Josie uneasily crutched the few additional feet and stumbled into her chair, which the railroad attendant fortunately gave her nearest the exit door. Noticing that, she thought to herself “well, that’s ONE benefit of being handicapped! I might as well enjoy it!” The train went its distance and within the hour, it arrived at Tarrytown. Josie tried as casually as she could to crutch out of the train but since she had not practiced much, she looked very awkward and apparently new to the situation as anyone who observed her would think. She was rehearsing in her mind to take a taxi the short distance home and sneak the braces off her legs and make it appear that nothing happened. As reality gripped her as she stopped her mental rehearsal/daydream, she looked up and her heart went into her mouth! There stood Mom, with a look of horror on her face! And Dad stood next to her, looking as if someone had died! They both cried out in unison
“Omigod!!!What happened to you, little Josie!!!!!!!!”
Josie was not a brilliant person, but she somehow had the knack for thinking on her feet, so she said in a quickly thought up lie ‘” My legs were hurting me, so I secretly went to an orthopedic doctor who told me I had a degenerative disease of my knee joints. He had a spare pair of braces from a similarly sized girl who just had new ones made, so he gave me these for the meanwhile until I got more permanent ones made up”. With this explanation, Josie knew she was stuck forever as a brace wearer, but as she thought earlier, she wanted to be a cripple, and didn’t care what others thought. Her parents accepted her explanation but wanted to know at least what doctor she was seeing so they could at least talk to them. Josie was stymied and she suddenly came up with, “these braces were so hard to walk in, I stumbled and the envelope I was carrying fell out of my hand and into the train tracks, so I lost it. I kind of remember his name, but can’t think of it I know he works at the Hospital for Special Surgery. Her mother, being very patient and understanding, came and hugged her and said, I know, Josie, you’re under a lot of stress . Just try to get some sleep and maybe tomorrow you’ll get the doctor’s name right.
Josie pretended to go to sleep and a little later on, went on the internet, onto a chat room with devotees, and asked if anyone knew orthopedic doctors at that same hospital in New York. As luck would have it, a person online happened to be one of the doctors at the hospital and he was a devotee of casts and braces! He said he would willingly give her a letter and his name and number but NEVER to let it slip that he was a devotee and doing this because he could lose his job and license! She wrote the name and number on a piece of paper and he was already prepared when Josie’s parents called as he had several patients with Juvenile Rheumatoid Arthritis and he easily had excerpts from their files adapted to Josie’s case with phony copies of x-rays to be seen as her own that he later showed them.
Within a short time, another exact pair of braces were officially made for Josie using cast made of her legs by a certified orthotist that the cooperative doctor knew, and her life as an officially handicapped person finally began!
Chapter 3
As each day went by, Josie loved her HKAFO’s (Hip-Knee-Ankle-Foot Orthosis) more and more. She got a thrill from the thought of how they felt so firm and unforgiving on her legs and how they prevented every movement that would have come naturally. Of course, as she went about her daily life, as she told more and more people around her, such as her everyday friends and acquaintances and especially relatives that she had Juvenile Rheumatoid Arthritis and that it was progressive and that the doctor had prescribed the braces, she was bound more and more to live the lie that she told. She knew the price would be heavy, and because she and the hospital doctor were aware of this, she signed a waiver of liability so that the doctor would be protected from a malpractice lawsuit because of the imminent atrophy that would eventually make her once shapely and athletic legs useless and spindly but she had been aware of that consequence and intended to deal with it as her choice in life.
It came about later in the year, in school, as Josie was using her new wheelchair with elevating leg rests, and had both legs put in long leg casts for 3 months, that Josie was eating her favorite lunch, her peanut butter and strawberry preserves sandwich, that she heard a sweet melodic female voice asking,
“can I sit here?”. Josie looked up and saw a pretty blonde girl, dressed in a schoolgirl uniform consisting of an above knee plaid skirt, and ankle sox and white shirt adorned with a bandana around the neck area. The girl smiled and extended what Josie was expecting would be a hand but, in her peripheral vision, saw instead a hook!
Josie instinctively went to shake the girl’s hand and the other girl introduced herself as Kathy. As Kathy said her name, she saw the tray that Kathy was grasping and noticed that Kathy had not one hook but two! It jolted Josie somewhat to see this as she had become used to wearing braces herself but never quite got used to others in casts, braces or with artificial limbs. Josie wriggled around somewhat in her wheelchair to make herself more comfortable. Kathy asked if she could sign one or both of Josie’s leg casts and Josie exclaimed “How?” never expecting someone appearing so disabled could do anything for themselves, let alone write!
Josie pulled out one of many thick markers she kept just for cast signings and handed it to Kathy. Kathy grappled it in her pincer-like hooks and speedily and very neatly wrote “get well” and some other expressions and drawings in the best handwriting Josie had ever seen, even for a fully abled person! They exchanged stories and Kathy told hers, each one thinking to themselves to “better make up a lie and tell the truth, after all, I don’t want to be seen as nuts by such a nice person!”
Kathy said she was helping her aunt in a farm in upstate New York with a tree shredder and her arms were caught in it and she had them amputated just below her elbows when she was 12 years old. Josie felt sorry for her and Kathy felt the same way for poor Josie’s arthritis and their friendship grew so that they became best friends and went everywhere together. Josie always was in braces or casts and in a wheelchair or on forearm crutches and Kathy, of course, always had the hooks on.
Chapter 4
As they both realized that their secrets were exposed, Kathy and Josie both said again to each other “I thought you were handicapped”. Josie felt extremely guilty about deceiving Kathy, but felt betrayed about Kathy’s deception of the hooks, but still wanted Kathy’s friendship, so she took the initiative to apologize.
“I’m so sorry Kathy about lying to you. I always wanted to be like a handicapped person so I took it upon myself to see an orthopedic doctor I met on the Internet and we kept a mutual secret. I wouldn’t reveal his identity if he would kindly make braces for me with medical notes to say I’m disabled with juvenile rheumatoid arthritis, cast me from time to time and he in turn can have a fantasy “patient” in the flesh to practice his fantasies on, especially after I turn 18 years old an no longer under my parents authority!”
Kathy was astonished at this revelation and was therefore compelled to tell her incredible truth about her secret. “I always was fascinated with hook prosthetics, ever since I saw a teenage girl with 2 hooks on when I was entering elementary school and was going back-to-school shopping with my mom at the mall for the first time. Being so young, I asked her whatever I could and she told me the story I told you, about the tree cutting machine that pulled in her arms and severed them. Her story was true, mine was false, but it was the same story recycled. I kept on drawing prosthetic hooks on people and my parents became concerned and took me to a psychiatrist, who in turn found nothing wrong with me but only saw a normal school girl’s crush or admiration for someone else. He suggested that my parent have a fake pair make for me and that once I grew tired of it like a toy, I would no longer want it.
Since my parents were fairly wealthy and still are, after they got a second opinion and the other psychiatrist agreed somewhat, they went ahead and had a pair of prosthetics made for me at a local orthotist-prostheticist, which he made by casting my lower arms to make a mold over which he made the sleeves and lower components. I was given the strict orders NEVER to use them in public, only in private. After a while, I was using the hooks to do everything in the house and just HAD to use them outside. One day, when my parents went away on vacation and had me stay with an aunt out of town during summer, I took the hooks out with me and wore them outside on a trip to the store. They looked realistic enough that about 10 people stopped me and asked me how I lost my arms. I told them the story, enjoying the attention and the loss of normal ability and how so many guys were willing to help a pretty blonde girl like me! This was just before High School and I threatened my parents that I would run away unless they would let me wear the hooks all the time, and here I am, wearing these hooks! The prostheticist who made the latest pair hired me as a trainer for his patients since I had the experience of wearing them in public and doing tasks with them, so he makes me new ones and fixes then for FREE! This is how things came about with him”
Kathy turned reddish purple with embarrassment as she realized that Josie saw her real hands, exposed and even though they were a bit stiff from disuse, otherwise they were very healthy hands of flesh. Likewise, Josie turned a dark red, upon knowing that Kathy now new the Rheumatoid Arthritis was a made up story. Both felt betrayed also and started accusing the other of lying and mutually saying “how could you do this to me”. After a minute of anger, their hostility faded quickly as each of both came to her own senses and realized they only had each other for friends who really understood themselves and each other.
Kathy apologized first and said, “You know, Josie, I should have told you all along but I didn’t want to have you think that I took being handicapped in a light-hearted way. I always admired handicapped people and felt sorry for their disability but at the same time, I always wanted to know what it FELT like to be handicapped without having an actual physical condition!”
Josie, said in return “Oh,Kathy! I couldn’t have said my feelings any better! How did you get those hooks though, really! I think are SO COOL!” Kathy replied, I went to work for a summer job with a local prostheticist, y’know, those guys who make artificial arms and legs! So one day, I said to him, ‘could you show me how you make those?’
He was more than happy to do so, as we had a mutual crush on each other, so I spent the week in his lab as his “intern” He offered to make a pair of demonstrator hooks when I asked if I could help him train patients initially with their hooks or other prosthetics but I needed to know how it “felt” to where them. He was struck by my sensitivity, which he said was very rare for a girl of my age of 16, so he offered to make them for me free of charge as long as I stuck to my promise of working to help patients. He took plaster bandages and made molds of my hands and forearms with my hands held in a knuckle with my thumbs tucked under my fingers. The sockets of course had to be much larger than that of an actual forearm amputee but the shape was that of a straight tube with an increased circumference as you go higher up the forearm, as you can see for more realism! He made an upper portion with a tight hinge to restrict my wrist rotation to make it even more realistic for me. Everyone here knows me as “Kathy that hook girl” so I have to wear these full time now ever here since I moved!”
Josie told her story to her, about the doctor who was a brace and cast enthusiast and who fashioned the HKAFO’s that she had nearby, and put them on promptly, saying how everyone knew her as “Josie the Leg brace girl”. Both giggled at each others nicknames and Josie then helped Kathy put her hooks on with the shoulder harnesses.
Josie asked Kathy enthusiastically, “Could you show me how these totally cool things are made?????????!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!”
“Absolutely, replied Kathy.”I had gone to that local prostheticist that I told you about and asked him if I could help him in his office, but I’d like to know more about how the patients feel in their various situations, that way I could help him better! He was more than happy to hire me, so, since we had a mutual crush on each other, he allowed me to spend the week in his lab as his “intern” Being struck by my sensitivity, he offered to make a pair of demonstrator hooks when I asked if I could help him train patients initially with their hooks or other prosthetics which would definitely give me what I needed to know how it “felt” to be one of the patients. He said my sensitivity was very rare for a girl of my age of 16, so he offered to make them for me free of charge as long as I stuck to my promise of working to help patients. He took plaster bandages and made molds of my hands and forearms with my hands held in a knuckle with my thumbs tucked under my fingers. The sockets of course had to be much larger than that of an actual forearm amputee but the shape was that of a straight tube with an increased circumference as you go higher up the forearm, as you can see for more realism! He made an upper portion with a tight hinge to restrict my wrist rotation to make it even more realistic for me. Everyone here knows me as “Kathy that hook girl” so I have to wear these full time now ever here since I moved!”
Josie told her story to her, about the doctor who was a brace and cast enthusiast and who fashioned the HKAFO’s that she had nearby, and put them on promptly, saying how everyone knew her as “Josie the Leg brace girl”. Both giggled at each others nicknames and Josie then helped Kathy put her hooks on with the shoulder harnesses.
When I told Dad that I was soon going to make as much income wearing these as he was making in his job, he quickly gave in and said, “Whatever you want, honey!” When Josie finished her story, she looked over at Kathy, who grinned and the two girls said to each other, well let’s live the life of gimps! , Kathy walked out with Josie and crossed the street and went to the bus stop discussing their plans for the next few weeks.
Chapter 5
Josie and Kathy strode down the road, alternately giggling and talking as they talked about each others experiences and how people reacted to them when they saw how “crippled” they were. Josie offered to take Kathy to see how casts were made, for orthopedic patients and how much she wanted to wear the casts again, which she had been out of for 8 weeks now. Josie called for an appointment, and Dr Bigbee, her regular orthopedist made one for after hours so there would be less attention. They prepared by going to Josie’s house for the wheelchair, and Josie told her parents how her legs were in excruciating pain and she probably would need to have casts put on again as that was the only way to relieve her joint pain. Josie’s mother drove with the two girls to the hospital and since it was only 5:00 the doctor told Josie’s mother that her had some extra time tonight and wanted to make sure that Josie, his favorite patient, was comfortable. The wheelchair was already taken into the clinic, and it was the standard Everest and Jennings model with elevating leg rests. Josie’s mother helped her onto the casting table after Josie removed her pants and after putting on the stockinet and cast padding from her toes all the way to her groin on both legs, Dr Bigbee asked Josie what kind of cast bandage did she want on her legs. Josie picked a new fiberglass bandage that featured a New York Mets logo on it since she loved the Mets and was especially a fan of Mike Piazza who was their catcher, and whom she thought was a cute guy. So the doctor cheerfully rolled the Mets fiberglass bandages very smoothly on both legs and molded it with the knees slightly bent. The bandages hardened in no time and Josie felt the warm feeling of the water in the bandages evaporating and the rapid gradual stiffness in her ankles and knees. After twenty minutes the bandages were fully hardened and Josie’s mother and Dr Bigbee helped Josie into the wheelchair. The doctor gave paperwork restricting Josie to the wheelchair with no weight bearing for 10 weeks, and Josie meekly complied, startling her mother who thought that Josie, being a 16 year old, would complain like other girls who might want to dance or show their shapely legs in bathing suits on the beach. But Josie of course was a different breed of girl who certainly would wear a sexy bathing suit on the beach, but not to show her tanned legs, but to show her fully casted legs, while seated in her favorite wheelchair. After all, she knew she would get as much, if not more attention from cute guys with the casts on her legs, than without them!
Chapter 6
Both girls felt relieved to finally reveal their secret, but Kathy didn’t realize how much further she would have to go in revealing her secret, not just to Josie but to the entire school! As they left the school together, Kathy walked, looking down at Josie as she chatted, never seeing the high curb they were approaching. Josie noticed it and even with her two casts on, she applied just enough pressure on the wheelchair to get past the curb. Unfortunately for Kathy, that never happened. Her left foot hit the foot-high curb in mid stride at full waking speed and the momentum of her body in walking motion kept her going forward. Before she could even react, she was heading face forward toward the hard sidewalk. Instinctively, she threw her uncovered hands forward, as Josie had the prosthetics in a bag on her lap at Kathy’s request, as no one was going to be at school to see her for the first time without the hooks. Her arms outstretched, the force and subsequent impact of the sidewalk shattered the navicular and distal radiuses in Kathy’s weakened wrists, and she fell to the ground, writhing in agony. Josie took her new cell phone out and called 911 for an ambulance, which came within 10 minutes and brought Kathy, with Josie accompanying her, to the nearest hospital.
After X-rays were taken, fractures were also seen just below the elbows and on 3 fingers. The female doctor advised Kathy that her arms would have to be put in long arm casts which would go from just below her armpits to the midpoint of her fingers and would cover both thumbs as well. Still numb from the shock of the trauma of the fractures, Kathy didn’t think of the consequences until her mom, who came to the hospital after being notified about the accident, was driving the two girls’ home. Everyone was sitting quietly in the car, saying nothing until the sudden realization about what the casts were going to do hit her. As the thought came to Kathy, she suddenly gave a blood-curdling scream. The surprise of the scream nearly caused her mother to lose control of the car!
Josie and Kathy’s mother thought something terrible had happened but then Kathy explained, ” I just realized I can’t go to school!!!. School starts in one week, I have to wear these casts for 8 weeks and everyone knows me as an amputee!
Chapter 7
Since Kathy was in a crisis and they knew they had to hide the fact of Kathy’s hands to save her from embarrassment, Josie lobbied her orthopedic doctor and Kathy her prostheticist for help. The two professionals, who coincidentally were communicating though instant messaging on the internet, finally met each other fact to face and recognized each other as the subject matter seemed very oddly familiar to both, who were each recreational bracing and casting enthusiasts, since the discussion was not delivered in a professional way. The 2 agreed to help the girls go away for 6 weeks on a “rehabilitation trip” to the Virgin Islands for the length of time that Kathy was to wear her long arm casts. Josie would have her two long leg casts removed then reapplied on her legs upon arrival, so that she could assist Kathy while on the island of St. Thomas. The parents of Kathy were advised of the problem and they understood even though they realized that they were assisting in the general deception. They bought the airline tickets for 3 so that Kathy’s mother could go with the 2 girls.
They all left the following day for the airport and within a couple of hours, after passing through security at the airport and having their luggage processed; they boarded the airplane at JFK Airport and shortly took off. The flight only took about 4 hours, including the usual delays of runway congestion and after the airplane landed, all 3 were in some discomfort due to the change in air pressure which affected their ears. Because of their blocked ears, they were all shouting toward each other when talking, so, thinking the 3 women were hard of hearing, the valet crew assisting Kathy with her luggage which she could not carry because of her casted arms were yelling as well! Finally, their ears “popped” and they were able to hear and talk normally, and when the valets realized they were yelling for no good reason, they came to their senses and started talking normally as well. They checked into the hotel and Josie and Kathy’s mom Renee helped Kathy change into her bedclothes and they went to bed to get fresh and ready for the next day, which would fatefully change everyone’s life, especially Kathy.
Chapter 8
At 7:45 Renee woke up her daughter so all 3 could go into the shopping district of town. Josie was still wobbly on her feet due to the weakened condition of her atrophied legs from prolonged immobilization by either the casts or braces, so she had to wear her KAFO’s today, and Kathy would be assisted by her mother while having her arms fully casted in long arm casts. Since the temperature was well into the 80’s all 3 women would be wearing their summer garb, which meant Kathy had her favorite tank top shirt which enabled her to easily get her arms in and out of her outfit, and shorts that were medium length as Kathy wasn’t much of a show-off. Josie loved wearing flashier outfits so she wore a bright t-shirt from an Eagle’s concert with short shorts and Nike sneakers which of course allowed her to show off her braces covering her legs. Kathy’s mom Renee, being one who graduated from high school in the early 1980’s was still into short shorts as well, wearing them with a t-shirt promoting Led Zeppelin, and although she was in her early 40’s, she retained her girlish figure and well-toned legs to match. As they made their way to the shopping district in St. Thomas, a young man who was about 30 years old spotted Josie with her forearm crutches and KAFO’s came over and started talking to Josie. He made her an offer, which was to restore cosmetically the tone of her legs free of charge, if she would model for him also free of charge, with her crutches and braces, and perhaps, wearing casts if she would feel comfortable doing so. He had only made the offer after Josie had somehow slipped and told him how much she enjoyed wearing the braces and how she was now “paying the price for it”. He had set her mind so at ease she had let her guard down, but since he assured her he had the proper credentials and she checked them out at his behest using her cell phone, she gave tentative approval, as long as her own mother would agree once they went stateside again.
Kathy, while entering a contest with her mother’s help, proved to be a winner as the contest drawing was held later that day in the same store, and she won a trip to Disneyland in California. Kathy was really excited because it would be 6 months from now when her arms were fully healed and she would be able to wear her more familiar hook prosthetics again. Nothing else exciting occurred during the other 5 weeks that they were on the island and they all flew back to JFK airport where Josie’s mother agreed to pick up the 3 weary traveling women. Kathy was fed up with wearing her arm casts and arranged to have them removed and have the hook prosthetics modified by her prostheticist so her arms would still be as effectively immobilized but she could then wear her hooks in which she felt more comfortable, so a brace attachment was made that fully restricted movement of her elbows in both extension and rotation. Josie, on the other hand, wanted to have long leg casts put back on so her orthopedist friend complied and put the long leg fiberglass casts on that very afternoon and gave her the paperwork which restricted her to a wheelchair for 3 months.
Chapter 9
Kathy was delighted to have the new prosthetic hooks on her arms but at the same time knew that she was going to have to undergo extensive physical therapy as a matter of course for her multiple arm fractures. She knew there would be questions by the physical therapist as to why there would be so little progress in restoring function to her hands, wrists and elbows but she knew that she HAD to keep wearing the hook prosthetics as everyone in school knew her as “Kathy the hook girl” and she had absolutely no motion in her hands as the prosthetics were molded exactly to her forearms and served the same way as casts would, so essentially, she was committing herself to wearing what was for all intent and purpose, casts for the next 2 remaining years of high school and into college, as all of her school records cited her as being “Handicapped”.
Josie was in the same predicament with the braces, but the atrophy had set in so extensively that she had zero muscle tone in her calves, and at this point after wearing long leg casts and braces for the past 2 years, she couldn’t voluntarily bend her ankles or knees without doing it manually with her hands. So, after her most recent pair of leg casts were finally removed, Josie was sunning herself at a local beach when a man passed by, staring at her as though she were the most beautiful woman in the world. Now, Josie, felt comfortable and confident about her appearance, and usually wore high hemmed skirts or short shorts to show off the maximum amount of her casts or braces, but she hardly felt she was that good looking. She looked at the man with a quizzical look, almost suspicious look and the man, though someone with less confidence would have been deterred, introduced himself anyway.
“Hello, young lady, my name is Jeff Ables, and I’m the Owner of Ables Restorative and Cosmetic Surgery Products. I don’t mean to be intrusive, but I noticed that you are a KAFO user and have muscle loss in your legs. If I could help you restore at least the appearance of your legs, at no charge, would you be able to help me?”
Josie wondered to herself, how could I possible help this man, as I am virtually as crippled as I have appeared to be and soon will need a wheelchair? She then remembered that her legs’ appearance had been nagging her and was contemplating just wearing long pants over the braces and not be such a showoff anymore, in contrast to her true nature as a person who loves flaunting what she felt she was proud of. She said, with that last thought in mind, “how could I help you, I can hardly walk, and need these crutches all the time nowadays!”
He replied “If you authorize it or your parents do if you are under 18 years of age, I can pay for the entire charge of silicone implants in your legs as well as joint replacement surgery for your knees and ankles if it’s related to arthritic degeneration.
All you would need to agree to do in return is to model for me, in before and after shots, which would be in video and still promotionals, serving as a testimonial, to promote my company’s products!
Josie was still skeptical, but she tentatively agreed, as long as Mr Ables would consult with her mother. He agreed and they all met 2 days later. After a lengthy discussion, where Josie’s mother verified his credentials, thay all agreed to have the procedure done, after Josie did the initial shooting of her crutching around and in her wheelchair, showing her wholesome looking face and pleasant upper body physique, in contrast to her very thin, spindly legs. She had to explain that the atrophy had occurred from years of being immobilized in casts and braces and she had decided to have her appearance corrected as it was affecting her self esteem and confidence.
Shortly after that, surgery was performed on both of her legs, with silicone implants which were rather hard being inserted where her atrophied calf muscles were, as well as above her knees, to restore some fullness to her thighs, which, when completed, gave her legs the appearance of being like a Playboy model’s long shapely legs. Function could not be restored because of her age and extensive joint erosion and bone loss, so the joint procedures were not bone, but now Josie could be confident she could wear long leg casts or KAFO’s as often as she wanted, without worrying about any more atrophy. She bought herself a new lightweight wheelchair, with the remaining money from the modeling fees for her birthday, and used the wheelchair now more than her forearm crutches.
Chapter 10
Kathy meanwhile used her hook prosthetics full time, as she had no choice as everyone knew her as Kathy the hook girl plus she had to have some form of immobilization of her arms as the fractures healed. She was even sleeping with them and she only took them off every other day in order to clean them. As school finally started, Kathy was eating lunch with her inseparable girlfriend Josie, when a tall handsome boy walked over. She was too busy looking at his flawless face, to notice that she had something in common with him. She noticed it very quickly after they introduced himself, still a little shyly after she introduced herself. The boy introduced himself as Neil, and they both stuck her right hands out, or, actually, hooks and both of their jaws dropped a mile. They said to each other, simultaneously, “you mean you’re an arm amputee and hook wearer too???!!!”. Kathy said yes and told him her made up story about losing her hands in a farm equipment accident.
Neil explained that he was born with seriously deformed hands and his parents, rather than letting him grow up with hands that would be useless forever, elected to have both arms amputated between the wrists and elbows when he was still a baby, so he grew up that way and was as used to it being that way, just as one is used to the nose on their face. They took a liking one another and Neil became one of the “crew” always hanging out with Kathy. He like Kathy more as a friend because of their “mutual handicap” but was more attracted to Josie as his girlfriend because of her looks and interests, and became more intimate with her. A few months later, Neil was walking into Josie’s house, and Kathy happened to be helping in the kitchen, as Josie’s mother was sick with the flu and had to stay in bed. He walked over to Kathy to ask her how she managed dishes with the hooks as his were too slippery for a lot of thinks. A look of panic ensued on Kathy’s face and Neil happened to look down, and to his utter astonishment, saw 2 hands, which were a little frail looking but were certainly not hooks and were certainly not cosmetic prosthetics, which were largely non-functional. Kathy turned white with terror for being found out, and lacked an explanation. Neil said, “Are you Kathy’s twin sister?”, still not believing it could be Kathy, who handled her prosthetics as naturally as any amputee. Kathy explained, sheepishly and very timidly, that she was Kathy, indeed, and was very sorry about misleading him. She made him promise to never, ever tell anyone except Josie about this. She explained further that it was an interest that grew from her working for the local prostheticist and how she wanted to see how actual amputees felt wearing the prosthesis into a fulltime attachment for her. She still worked for the prostheticist, training and mentoring the arm amputees, she certainly did feel sympathy for the real amputees. She wanted to appear that way full time but occasionally did let her hands have some exercise so they would not become totally useless.
Neil accepted her explanation and continued to be a very close friend. Sometime around Christmas, Kathy was walking down the street, and wanted to mail a letter. She noticed that a large bicycle was blocking the door to the mailbox, because the owner had chained it with the front tire up in the air. Kathy tried to move it out of the way, with her hooks, not noticing that the mailbox was situated on top of a manhole cover, and it just so happened that the manhole cover had become electrically charge due to a faulty high voltage wire beneath it. As soon as Kathy touched the mailbox, the current went through her hooks, which were made of stainless steel and up her arms. The current burned her arms with 3rd degree and 4th degree burns up to her elbows and Kathy passed out and suffered cardiac arrest. Luckily, a man with a wooden crutch was able to pull Kathy away from the mailbox and do CPR on her.
An ambulance came and took her away to the hospital. She was on the danger list for a few days, and her family was summoned. The doctor told her parents that her arms would have to be amputated above the elbows but were also asked why she was wearing hook prosthetics as she did appear to have hands beneath them. They had to explain the bizarre story and the surgeon, although totally flummoxed, accepted the explanation. The amputations were now done for real, midway between the shoulders and elbows. Kathy would not know about this until she awoke from her coma 3 weeks later.
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Monday, August 14, 2017

A One In A Million-Cast Story by Plasterman
Chapter 1
I was so tired I couldn't keep my eyes open, but I promised myself the I'd go see Alicia, my favorite movie star, at an autograph signing session for her newest book on vegan and healthy diets, no matter what. I've had a serious crush on her for years, ever since I saw her in the Crush, I movie about a teen who had a crush on a man who was already spoke for and much older than her. She, however, was 13 years younger than me but I didn't care. There was SOMETHING about her, besides her natural wholesome beauty that attracted me, I I could not put a finger on it, especially since I was a meat eater and she was a vegan. I half stumbled into the library, and forgot that I didn't even shave. I looked like I just got out of bed, but I needed to get to bed, REAL FAST. As I walked into the room, I spotted here, with her dirty blond colored hair cascading on her shoulders wearing a blue and black button- down blouse that looked especially sexy on her,  though it wasn't really anything special, along with a favorite of mine, a slit denim skirt..
I walked over to her and made sure I bought her book for her to sign because I didn't want to look cheap. After buying the book with a few bills and a bunch of quarters, totalling $20.00, I walked over to her table nearby. She looked up and smiled, even without me saying anything. Her smile always drove me crazy, in her movies and magazine shots, more than anyone elses's! I was at a loss for words so I said something really stupid, that, once the words left my mouth, I thought to myself "Oh shit" like when a baseball pitcher, after throwing a pitch he KNOWS the batter is going to hit for a homerun! I said "Hey, Alicia, do you like casts?" She gave the sort of blink with her eyes someone makes when they know someone knows their deep dark secret, and exclaimed "What???" She made that cute little smile she's known for, said "wait a sec" quickly wrote something in a piece of paper and snuck in into my pocket where no one saw it. That caught me off guard so I started shaking with nervousness, and forgot my tiredness. Did I strike gold by accident? She signed my book, smiled at me  again, then whispered "see me in 10 minutes near the ladies room"
One In a Million- Chapter 2
I just couldn't imagine what I was on to, so, after I lwft the signing room, which was actually the main study hall upstairs transformed for the book signing once a few tables and chairs were moved, I went to the restroom area, and figured that's where she will be in a short while. I took a quick leak, washed my hands and face and got ready the wait the few minutes, which seemed to be an eternity, since I was so anxious. I tried to suppress my nervousness, so I sucked my belly in and stuck my chin up, so the speak, and got ready to see her. She walked over with her assistant, Amy, whom I recognized from photos in People magazine, and, to be friendly, I stuck my hand out and said with a smile, "Aren't you Amy? I saw you in People Magazine!"She smiled and shook my hand and then Alicia bent in to whisper in her ear something , and she let Alicia get away for a while to talk to me. She actually put her hand on my shoulder, unexpectedly, and the surprise of it gave me an instant erection, and I started blushing, which I always do when I get nervous! She said, "how did you know?" quietly, and, forgetting what I had said earlier, asked "know what" she smiled and she squeaked "you know, about liking casts! I always wanted to wear them but since I became an actress at 14, I was too embarassed to tell ANYONE! Do you know my dad? Cuz he's the only one I EVER told and he said stay away from craziness but I still always fantasized about wearing one. I even went on a website and I saw someone younger, who looks a lot like you, who inserted his face with mine on a girl who was wearing not just one but four casts. Are you Plasterman or related to him?" At which hearing this I almost fainted, since I was discovered by the girl whom I always fantasized about with HER wearing casts. I gave a gaspy 'yes" at which she gave a little scream and she suddenly hugged me! She's pretty strong for a girl her size, and she was red in the face and had that funny litle smile when she's happy, as I had seen her on the movie Clueless when her teacher got together with the other one after her character Cher had arranged it with her friend Dione!
One In A Million- Chapter 3
I had plans later in the day, one of which was to get some sleep, which i hadn't had in over 2 days since gong with my friends to the big casino, but I wasn't going to let this slip through my hands, so I made a ballsy statement to her which I didn't think I had to gumption to make, saying  "Now that we know we each like casts, what do we do about it?" She replied, "your going to get them for me!" Don't worry, I'll pay for them but they will be delivered in your name to your place, and I'll pick you up along with the supplies and tools, in my friend's limo! Here's my number call me when you get the supplies-Duh, oh yeah, what's your address. I can't forget about asking that!!!" she smiled.  I wroteit down my hand was kind of shaking, so I tried to re-write it so it would be clear. Now, I got my dream girl's phone number at her hotel room, and cellphone, and she has my ADDRESS and cell phone number!!! A few days later, I got a phone call from a number I didn't recognize, I answered it and it was her! She told me she was borrowing a worker's phone because she didn't want her number tracked and told me she had called UPS and they gave her the tracking number, and said the delivery was expected tomorrow, which was the 2 day express delivery turn-around time. She added she changed her plans and cancelled them so she could do what she wanted with me. I got the delivery the next day at 10:00 in the morning consisting of 6 large boxes, 5 from Grogans and 1 from Harbor freight. I muttered to myself, "this girl REALLY knows her shit!!!" The Harbor freight was the oscillating cast saw with several round blade attachments just as was described in the cast forum, so I knew she was up on that and the others had  the cast padding, cotton stockinette and FIBERGLASS cast tape of four different colors blue, green, white and pink. An hour or so later, as I was just getting ready to eat, the phone rang, it was her again, and she was calling from the hotel lobby phone! She asked if I got the stuff and when could I come over to meet her at a chosen location, to do the casting. She said the limo would pick me up with the supplies and tools and bring me to that place. She asked what's good for a well-known person so I could be incognito?" I said well, hideout in the open! Wear sunglasses and come to  my place, dress in clothing like my mods show you, in short shorts and tank top but in a regular car because a limo sticks out, maybe rent a minivan along with a wheelchair!" I said, being at once creative and trying to stretch her to the max, figuring when will the opportunity to do this EVER come again!  I added, drive all the way into my driveway. It's a dumpy house but the driveway is the length of the house and we can do everything on the back porch! She said, excitedly "Will do! I'm bringing a little present to you, and I'll tell you what I want exactly, with some photos I chose!"

Monday, December 19, 2016

Brittany's Casts and Braces

Brittany was thinking back, while on her computer, looking at ebay and craigslist, about the first time she realized she wanted a back brace. She was in sixth grade and her classmate, Denise, after being out for quite a while after being told she had a back condition called "scoliosis" had this big brace that held her up rigidly, with a portion that included a chin rest that showed underneath her blouse. Even though Denise seemed very self conscious and uncomfortable wearing it, Brittany, from the moment she saw it, wanted to have one. She asked her doctor, at her next exam, if she might have scoliosis, but the doctor said "most certainly not. Your spine is perfect. Do you have any back pain or discomfort?" Brittney didn't want to lie as she was brought up by her parents to be very moral, so she told him the truth and said no, but she saw her classmate wearing a big back brace and liked the idea of having one so her doctor said, Brittany, "Back braces are for people who have back problems, not for those who are well. Try not to look for things that are part of people's misery" She understood, but the desire was so strong, it never left her mind, for the previous 2 years. Now that she was twenty, and had worked for 2 "gap" years to save some money for college, she figured now was the time to do it. She was now looking up Milwaukee and Halo braces on ebay, and wanted to buy both, but couldn't find one that might be at least close to her size, as she was fairly tall at 6'1" and thin at 155 pounds, and most of the braces were for girls who were about 5'2" to 5'7" and about 90 to 120 pounds. She decided to  look for certain places on the internet that catered to pretenders, those who like to imagine themselves handicapped. She only found ones that made prosthetic hooks and such along with leg braces. So, after thinking, she decided to call a local orthotist, and since she really was ACTING, she told the orthotist, once she arrived, that she was acting in a play and needed to have to have two different spinal orthoses made for her, which were the halo brace and milwaukee Brace. She explained that she didnt want pins going in her skull but she did want it very firm in some other way, so the orthotist, after discussing the cost, which came to about $3000.00, which seemed reasonable, vs psychiatric help which would cost the same without the benefit of the braces. He told her he's have to make a cast of her body to get the correct dimensions of the brace, and asked her when she'd like to do it.
Since it was still early in the day and she had no college classes, she said to him to do it now. She said if he could, would he make casts of her legs for leg braces too? He said okay, it's not a huge deal but it is about $200 per cast, so so far her tab was $3900 between the leg casts and boy cast. Then she asked what if we went the whole way and you did my arms and head as well, so I can have a full set? To her surprise, he agreed, since business was kind of slow, this time of May, and they got started. The casts were made, starting with her legs, and she asked if he could make the negative plaster casts so they could be lined and re-used, like medical casts and he smiled and agreed. He asked her if she was a caster or pretender, and she was kind of taken back but she smiled knowing what he meant and said yes, that's why she wanted to full set and wanted to pretend that she was in a bad accident. She wanted him to make the casts for the braces first, but in segments, make them sturdy so they could be re-lined, and then put them on her after being done so she could start right away. He asked her how was she going to get around and she explained that she had an electric wheelchair that her room-mate Sally was going to bring over once she was done. Sally was a pretender herself, who liked wearing leg braces and eyepatches so she understood about what  Brittany was doing and why.
It actually took all day to do the casts and plaster was all over the place, with splashes on her upper arms and face and legs, so it took time to clean up, and the plaster needed to dry. It was medium-fast setting so Joe the orthotist asked if she minded staying over the office in a spare bed while it hardened, and he would stay with her so she could have her needs taken care off and not have to go back and forth to and from the office. She was covered  head to toe in plaster bandages so she couldn't move a thing anyway, or see anything for that matter as her eyes were covered as well, with only her nose open so she could breathe, of course.
The plaster was mostly dry by 7:45 am so Joe started the removal process, and carefully did lateral cuts in the plaster, starting with Brittany's head so she could finally see and hear and so she could have breakfast. Joe bought 2 Big Breakfasts at McDonalds across the street and before he ate, he fed her since her arms were still locked in plaster to her fingertips from her shoulders down, bent at the elbows. He wiped her mouth and then started to remove her arm-casts, cutting them on both sides so they would still be solid after being relined.He followed that up with the leg casts and finally the torso-body portion. After removal, he explained that in his excitement, he forgot he needed to use the casts as moulds for the braces! He said he would re-cast her so she could enjoy the experience, at no cost, since he made the mistake of forgetting and he had some older plaster he needed to use up, since he put in for a large shipment from 3M. He asked her what she's like for now, and she had him put her in two long leg casts with it up to her groin, the knees slightly bent, the ankles pointed downward and feet bent inward as if she had club-feet and with toe plates. She had him make 1 long arm cast for her leftarm including the thumb and 2 small ring and pinky fingers and a short arm finger thumb spica for the right, but then changed her mind and make them both long arm casts going almost to her armpits. The body portion was to be a "Minerva" cast" which held her back upright but her head flexed somewhat to the left and it would cover most of her head but have an opening for her face. He did all of that and he called her room-mate Sally to pick her up. He had already called her the previous after-noon explaining that she would be staying over. Joe's clinic was fairly large and had a hospital bed so that if he or a patient needed to stay over, they could, and if the patient stayed, Joe slept on the couch.
Sally, after a somewhat brief struggle to get the heavy electric wheelchair out of the minivan finally succeeded when a large well-built man walked by and helped her with it. She rolled it in, and told Brittany that she fully charged the electric battery the night before, so it probably was a good thing she didn't ask for it at that time, as the battery was almost all the way down.
Brittany was in ecstasy, she could finally play the role of a handicapped person, and she had a friend who was a medical doctor write a medical note, saying she had severe scoliois, complicated by kyphosis and club feet and 2 broken arms for a fall. She wore the casts for 4 weeks while the braces were being prepared, and when the day came, just after Flag Day June 14, she went to the orthotist, where he removed the casts and carefully applied the new braces. She opted to start with the Milwaukee Brace, to make sure it fit properly, but then had him place her in the Halo Brace,   which had rubber attachments that held her held firmly at 4 junctions, and it had the vest portion with openings for her breasts and her stomach which though fairly flat, still needed some room. The arm casts were to be kept on for another 4 weeks, because of the "fractures" for realism, but the leg casts were removed and the leg braces were put on which were KAFO's holding the ankles firmly and the knees at a restricted flexion. She intended to wear them all day, everyday, removing them only at night, but the halo brace was to be on for 8 weeks, when the Milwaukee would be worn from then onward.

Tuesday, November 22, 2016

Chrissy's Christmas Present

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Krissy was in 11th grade and a very popular cheerleader with one of the best looking guys as her boyfriend in school, who also happened to be the catcher on the high school's baseball team. Krissy was always complaining of aches and pains and always seemed to have an ace bandage on one of her limbs, countless band-aids on her fingers and was quite often on crutches, and Kurt, her boyfriend could never figure out why. After all, Krissy was hardly athletic but she certainly had a nice figure in spite of it. She was blonde, and was lean and long limbed with well toned legs and awesome hands on which she always had fabulous nail designs on her nails which she somehow managed to keep very long, at about 3 or more inches each. That was one of her two obsessions, the nail one being the one she made sure everyone know about as she could never hide her nails and wouldn't want to, but she never could tell anybody about her other obsession. She managed to get her bandages and crutches from the baseball's tem trainer, who knew what she was going to use it for and after he'd hand it over, at a small expense to himself so the budget was always replenished and so he wouldn't lose his job, they would part grinning to each other. Mac, the coach always shared a similar secret, He loved seeing girls on crutches or some part of theirs in bandages.
When Krissy came home she sometimes had the so-called accessories but she tried as often as possible to keep that part of her life secret from her parents. At least she knew most popular kids had some drug addiction problem, but an addiction to orthotics? She would certainly be sent to a Psychiatric ward if her parents found out, or so she thought. Every so often, when Joe and Margie, her parents went out, Krissy would skulk down into the basement which was renovated in the past into her father's workbench room and into her own playroom when she was 5 years old. It was still her playroom but her current "toy" was her father's wheelchair which her had used after he'd broken his leg while working on one of his carpentry jobs. She would have fun sitting in it with the leg rests up and her legs covered by one or 2 knee immobilizers which she would fasten with their velcro straps. She had done this for the 20th time without being caught as she could usually time when her folks would come home but one night, her timing was off when her mother had forgotten her credit cards with which they were going to pay for their food at an expensive restaurant. Her mother stayed back at the restaurant so the manager would not think they were going to be stiffed while her dad came home to fetch the credit card. He saw the lights were on in the basement and Krissy had always made sure the lights were out and her "toys" were put away. This time, Joe came home and called out her name. Krissy didn't hear him as she had her head phones on listening to a GreenDay music CD while wheeling around in the wheelchair, wearing her newest set of hinged knee braces. Kurt was sitting nearby all the while believing, as he was fairly gullible, that Krissy had broken both Patellas but would wear the knee braces for merely two weeks, when in actuality, with a real knee injury like that, one has to wear the brace on the leg for over 10 weeks!
Joe's mouth dropped a mile for he had thought that Krissy was okay for this week even though he himself had seen her often wearing at least her ace bandages on her knees, after telling her dad the school nurse put them on her knees to take care of joint weakness. Her knees weren't really weak but Krissy certainly had a weakness for the ace bandages, the way a lot of girls have a weakness for scarves or certain mittens. "Krissy!" Joe shouted, "you didn't tell us you were so badly hurt!'" Krissy still didn't hear him until he was directly in fron of her at which point she turned beet red from embarassment from being caught in the act!
Krissy stammered and said, "D..D..Dad, I must have forgotten!" At which point Krissy RAN (or at least the best that she could)from the room with the braces on, forgetting the crutches and wheelchair. Joe was clued in immediately that something wasn't right as he knew a thing or two about orthopedics from having a medcal student for a roommate in college. (Joe was, at the time, getting his masters degree in history, with which he hoped to get a teaching certificate, which didn't pan out and he ended up gong to school again as a carpenter, which finally gave him the success to get married, have a house and kids of whom Krissy was the youngest and the only one still at home). Joe knew from earlier experence and Krissy forgot in her panic that her older sister Melissa had a real injury of the same nature and she couldn't even WALK without her crutches with ONE broken patella, let alone TWO!
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Kurt looked up at Joe and said, "well, I thought she was hurt too, until now! I guess I should be leaving. " Joe liked Kurt most of all the boyfriends that Krissy had and suspected they had the same interest, as he was the only one that stayed with Krissy the longest, which, prior to Kurt, was only two weeks, as most of her prior boyfriends left her after two weeks, once they found out about her bandage and brace obsession. Joe gave Kurt an extra bottle of Pepsi to take home and Joe left for the restaurant with the credit card, which he found in spite of his head swimming with memories from his past which all came back to him in a rush. Joe soon arrived at the restaurant with the credit card and a puzzled dazed look on his face, which Margie noticed immediately. She exclaimed "Joe, are you okay?" Joe replied. "I think so, but there's something we need to talk about, concerning Krissy." Margie felt a moment of fear, thinking something happened to her dear daughter, whom Margie still treated like a little kid, waiting on her hand and foot, especially with all her injuries. "Did Krissy hurt herself again?" she asked. "No, at least I don't think so! Joe replied and added the details of what had happened when he came home and found Krissy in the wheelchair. Joe and Margie decided to take a little extra time coming home, even though it was a cold early December night so they went to the mall and sat on a bench and talked about their early memories and Joe confessed his own obsession to Margie, which he had also kept secret up to now. He said, "Remember, Margie, when you broke your arm falling down the stairs and at that point, I finally asked you out? Margie said, "How could I forget that? I kept that cast up to now at Mom's house. It's still there! I call it my magic cast! Joe asked, "How can a cast be magic? It only covers an arm with plaster and gets all smelly". Margie sensed that he was trying to lead her away from something, as Joe's face was growing redder by the minute and his lip started to quiver, which Margie knew he had a secret but didn't want to tell her.
Margie knew she had to confess something to her that she had kept from him all these years herself! "Joe, I don't know how to say this..., but that cast... well, I didn't really break my arm!" "But you had the cast on for two months!" Joe protested. Margie countered," I was trying to get you to go out with me but I felt you either were not interested in me, too shy to ask or needed a push. So I watched you carefully. I followed you down the hallway in high school at times and noticed that you always seemed to try to talk to the girls on crutches or wearing some sort of cast or ace bandage! I figured, maybe that is the key! I secretly took some money I had saved from my job and went to an orthopedist's offce. I begged him to put my arm in a cast as I needed to play an injured girl in a school play! After some prodding, he complied and put the plaster long arm cast on my left arm. I paid him and he gave me a receipt. My parents accepted my story about the broken arm and never checked up on it, and because I am right handed, I was still able to work on my job as a cashier even with the cast on my arm! In Spanish class, which, as you remember was during first period, that next day, your eyes nearly popped out of your head when you saw the cast which covered my arm from nearly my armpit to my knuckles. I made a point of wearing a tank top that day so you could see the whole thing! Joe nearly passed out hearing this and sad, you mean, you hooked me with the cast as the bait??????" Margie replied "Yes, honey. I was that desperate to land the cutest and smartest guy in school! And even though my arm was wicked stiff for 3 weeks after the cast came off, it was all worth it! Now, was there something you wanted to tell me?"
"Honey,' Joe said, " I think this runs in our family! I always was attracted to girls in casts, braces, wheelchairs and on crutches. When I saw you with that cast, it looked so lovely on you and also gave you a helpless with which I needed to be your helper. I guess it made me overcome my fear because I thought that you would NEVER go out with me if I asked you! It was the thing of my wildest dreams when you said yes the first time I asked you to go to the McDonald's restaurant even though your family was so rich. I didn't think I could ever afford you!" Margie then said, " Joe, all the money in the world couldn't buy a man like you for me! I had rich boyfriends that couldn't shine your shoes!" Joe was so happy, when he heard this, he gave Margie a long passionate kiss on the lips. The Margie added, in a now ominous tone after thinking about it while they were kissing, "Now waht do you mean by, you think it runs in the family?" Joe answered," You know how Krissy always seems to act embarassed and awkward when we come home and when you've gone down to clean her playroom, you noticed my old wheelchair out of place? I thought she had some interest but I wasn't sure until tonight, when I found her in the wheelchair, remember what I told you earlier?I think she has her fun using the wheelchair. I know I actually injoyed using the wheelchair and when I was in college with my roommate Fred, who was going for his doctorates in Orthopedics, I often volunteered in his casting class as a model because I loved the idea of wearing a cast as much as seeing a beautiful girl like you in one! I think we should have a talk with Krissy. Maybe we can arrange a different kind of gift for her. She never seems to be able to answer our question about what she wants for her birthday and Christmas, but I think I have an idea now!
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Joe and Margie smiled at each other and finally started the car up again to head for home as they were now getting chilly. Even in Southern California, it gets chilly in December! As they got to the house, it was now dark and they knew Krissy was in bed at 1:00 am. School was still in session for the next two weeks for Krissy and she needed to attend class, but she had two free weeks after that, plus an option for leave for independent studies out of school as part of their schools special charter provisons. At breakfast the next day, as both Margie and Joe got ready for work while Krissy got ready for school, Joe said to Krissy, "Krissy, make sure you're home at six o'clock tonight when I get home. Mom and I need to have a serious talk with you!" A look of panic crossed Krissy's face, as she knew it absolutely had to do with last night, as her grades were excellent and she never got into trouble in school! Krissy said okay sheepishly and went outside to get ready to take the school bus. Joe and Margie looked at their watches and at the same time, looked out the window to see how Krssy walked toward the bus. Sure enough, Krissy boarded the bus while faking a limp, and sported the braces she said she "needed" for her injuries. Somehow she sneaked them out of the house. Joe said, "Margie, I think she hid the braces and crutches in the back and put them on before walking off to the bus stop." , to which Margie immediately agreed. They then agreed to talk to Joe's orthopedist friend and former roommate Fred who owed Joe a favor for being his casting model in college but never had the opportunity to return it. This came about as Joe came home early from work at his carpentry frm and brought some supplies and 3 buddies. The 2 buddies immediately went to work building a wheelchair ramp up to the house. He told them a disabled relative was going to be living at the house and he needed to make the house wheelchair-accessible. Meanwhile, while his helpers were building the ramp,
Joe called Fred and reminded him about the favor. Fred said cost was no object and this was going to be needed for future college credits for Krissy for what is known as 'sympathy training". The made an appointment for December 24, when business at the hospital clinic was light in the afternoon due to last minute Christmas shoppers and Krissy had a half day of school that day.
By the time Krissy returned from Cheerleader practice at 5:30, the workers had departed, the ramp was finished and Joe and Margie were in their living room awaiting Krissy's arrival home. Krissy went around the back, took her braces off, put them away with the crutches then walked around front and rang the bell, She turned her head and noticed the ramp. As soon as Margie opened the door, Krissy asked "Mom, what is that wheelchair ramp for?" Marge answered in a loving but firm tone, "Krissy, dear, that is part what we need to talk to you about" Krissy inquired "Is grandma coming here? I can help take care of her!" Her grandmother, now 78 years old, was wheelchair bound due to a recent hip fracture. "No, dear, she is going to stay in the Crosstown Assisted Living. But we are going to offer an opportunity to you. We have special plans for the afternoon of Christmas Eve Day, so don't make any particular plans. we'll shop for our presents next week after school!' Krissy was totally confused but realized that the ramp had something to do with it, so she asked, "Am I being punished for what I did last night?"
Joe answered, no, but we want to let you do something very special that I think you will enjoy very much.' Joe recounted his story to Krissy so she had an idea, but not exactly
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The next week was abuzz with frenetic activity at Krissy's home as presents were purchased, a tree was brought in and decorated and Christmas Lights were put on outside the house. It was so fast it was literaly ablur when suddenly, December 24 arrived. Krissy went to school as usual, came home shortly after noon and found her mom and dad waiting for her. They asked her to get ready, and take waht was usually a summer outfit with her along with her light long winter coat. Krissy was puzzled but complied and put in in a shopping bag and got into the family's minivan. The drive to Fred's hospital took 45 minutes as it was about 20 miles away but it was located, fortunately, away from the malls which had very heavy Christmas traffic. Krissy saw the hospital and thought she was going to be admitted, but her parents said certainly not, everything was ready at home. She had no idea what that meant so she kept quiet and waited for whatever came next. She was led past the admitting clerk and went straight to the orthopedic ward's cast room with Margie and Joe. Fred, the doctor, was finishing up the unit's business as Joe greeted him and said, Fred,you know what we want you to do! Here's Krissy, my daughter.She'll go along with whatever you need to do! Fred sat her on the casting table after Krssy removed her outer garments stripping to her panties and bra. The table was metal and the clinic was rather cold so Krissy started shivering. Fred then said, I'll give you this sedative to calm you and it'll make my work easier. Fred then injected her, and within minutes, Krissy became groggy and basically was knocked out. The orthopedic technician Jamie came into the room after being summoned and she immediately started taking the cast supplies out of the supply room. It took about 3 hours, from 2:30 pm to about 5:40 pm but everything was done by 5:45 and Jamie and Fred picked up Krissy and gently loaded her onto the hospital bed, which was transferred into the chair car for her trip home. She was still unconscious, not suspecting or knowing what was done to her in those 3+ hours. At about 6:15, the chair car/ambulance arrived at their house along with the minivan and the driver with an nursing assistant helped wheel Krissy into her newly prepared room. The room now had a respirator, an intravenous line, traction equipment and catheters all ready. The nurse helped put Krissy in her traction apparatus in the new hospital bed which replaced her regular bed. Krissy was purposely kept under sedatives until the next day, which was Christmas, so that it would be her Christmas present.
Comments
Please carry on
Anonymous User, 2005-12-17 22:13
This story is really good...please post more, I want to see what they have done to her
Please continue.....
Anonymous User, 2005-12-16 21:53
The story is awesome so far....
Please, ...
Anonymous User, 2005-12-16 04:41
.... don't keep us waiting for the next chapter for too long!
Great story!
Hugo
Awesome
NEWBIE, 2005-12-15 18:57
Man this chapter ends perfectly i cant wait for a new chapter.
agreed
Anonymous User, 2005-12-15 23:54
yep i agree, cant wait to see her reaction :D
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Chapter 5
Krissy was laying there, in her new bed, utterly aware of her surroundings and her vestments which consisted of a great deal of plaster and tubing, because of her heavy sedation, in place for her to be surprised as this was understood to be her Christmas present to be revealed on Christmas Day. At six O'clock, before anyone opened their presents under the lovely and heavily decorated Christmas tree in the family room, Joe and Margie, and her brothers and sisters Melissa, Stephanie, Tim and Joe Jr. A home health aide who was an LPN and friend of the family was specially hired for the occasion, to bring Krissy out of her sedation at around that time. Krissy finally began to stir a little and open her eyes at about 7:00 am but soon realized she could not move much at all. She slightly shifted her arms and legs and soon realized what she had on and what sonmeone else would felt was a pitiful condition to be in on Christmas Day but for Krissy was actually a dream come true. Her arms were covered from nearly her armpits to the tips of her fingers in long arm casts, and her legs in long leg casts from her toes to groin. Holding everyting in place was a frame of was fastened, by plaster and almost as firmly as a full body cast, four long pieces of wood, connecting across her forearms, from her left forearm to her right one,then one down to her right leg,one from the right leg to the left leg, and lastly from the right leg to the left forearm. She also had an indwelling catheter. When she was finally able to talk after asseessing her situation thanks to the large mirror attached to the ceiling above her bed as Krissy couldn't move a thing, she said to her mother and father, grinning broadly and delightedly "Thanks, mom and dad! This was the best Christmas present ever. Can I stay in this the full 6 to 8 weeks one might for fractures?" And Margie, her mom said, "Why certainly dear, That is why we have Muriel the nurse to stay with us for whatever amount of time that you would want!" Then, Joe Jr asked Krissy if she minded pictures being taken for the memories sake and for people who were subscribing to the cast fan sites that Krissy had thought she had done stealthily but were known to Joe Jr because he went on the cast sites as well and interpreted her call name KrissyFBC87 as being his sister! She happily agreed and even asked to be videotaped as well! Everyone who subscribed to the Wildcast site (not a true site but only for the sake of this story) then was able to see Krissy in her cast and frame, laying naked and talking about her experience, and later when she would have the frame removed in 3 weeks, despite her wish to be immobilized the full time, as she didn't realize it would have bad physical consequences for her otherwise).
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grein, 2006-11-26 16:20
more please!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Please ...
Anonymous User, 2005-12-24 07:06
... continue with this story! Can't wait for more to come!
BTW, I guess in the first sentence it should read that Krissy was totally "unaware" not "aware".
Merry Christmas!
Hugo
continue
Anonymous User, 2005-12-19 05:03
cant wait for the next chapter, perhaps something happens during the immobilazion :D
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Dragon CastJun 18, 2004
Just so everyone knows, I am not gone, just been
really busy behind the scene's. My site is not gone
either. I have just pulled a new data-line, and will
be moving the servers (hopefully for the last time!!),
and once they are moved, I'll be posting stories
again.

Thanks everyone for their patience!

--- Larry G <LBgreen777@aol.com> wrote:
>
> Hello, Dragoncast. I'm Plasterman and I want to send
> a bunch of
> emails, each a chapter for a new story as a
> contribution to your
> story website. This is looosely based on a story in
> legbrace lover's
> website whose webmaster died and all its contents
> were lost. I want
> to write a similar story so here's chapter one.
> Kerrie just graduated from college with her
> communivcations
> degree and she needed to find a job quickly in order
> to pay her
> bills, including student loans and rent, as her
> father had died a
> while ago and her mother was in a nursing home due
> to a series of
> strokes. As she pored over the advertisements, she
> saw one that
> grabbed her eye. " male and female actors wanted for
> unusual roles,
> will get excellent pay and benefits, for the right
> person, no
> experience necessary, B.A. in Communications or
> Theatre Arts
> Preferred". Squealing with delight, she ran over to
> her roommate Lisa
> who was taking a shower. "Lisa! We're in luck! This
> job might be what
> we're looking for and might get us a better
> apartment instead of this
> basement dump in Boston!!
> "Kerrie, where is the job interview going to
> be? You know we
> can't just fly out to Los Angeles on our budget! "
> said Lisa.Kerrie
> replied, "Don't worry, they're here interviewing at
> the Park Plaza
> Hotel! They are interviewing all week and they said
> in the paper that
> the right person will start immediately" . "That's
> usually unheard
> of , Kerrie, " said Lisa, everyone I know had to
> send their resume
> and wait for week or moths to even get in for the
> interview. Well,
> we have nothing to lose, so let's go!"
> Kerrie and Lisa had been roommates at Umass
> Amherst for all 4
> years and they hit it off right away, especially
> after Kerrie had
> shown up after spring break wearing a plaster long
> arm cast that
> covered her thumb and ring and pinkie fingers and
> went almost to her
> armpit.
> when Lisa saw that her eyes grew wide with envy and
> near ecstacy as
> Lisa somewhat was always turned on by seeing another
> girl in a cast.
> After much hemming and hawing, Kerrie finally told
> her after waiting
> all school year that her boyfriend told her he loves
> to see casts on
> girls and if Kerrie didn't want to be with him she
> could leave him
> because her was always going to be that way, but if
> she did want to
> stay, would she please wear one on her left arm for
> the summer? So,
> in the days before the Internet, Kerrie became a
> regualr caster that
> year in 1990. Kerrie had as her first cast a short
> arm plaster cast
> in 1990 when she first met Lisa in her Southwest
> dormitory that
> September.
> Because she didn't want to be considered the
> "resident weirdo of
> the dormitory, she told her floormates and friends
> that she that she
> had a certain orthopedic disorder that affected her
> joints and had
> to wear casts almost all the time. So, since all
> college kids love to
> sign plaster casts and the boys do love to see the
> girls in a cast if
> they can, Kerrie was an instant hit in her dorm.
> She showed up,
> always after a vacation, with one cast or more. from
> short arm casts
> to double long leg casts after senior spring break!
> These casts were still on Kerrie that fateful day in
> early June when
> she went on her interview, in her wheelchair with
> Lisa gleefully
> pushing it. Kerrie was extremely skeptical about
> getting a job as she
> was somewhat shy, with a lanky long limbed build and
> needing glasses.
> She knew she had a nice build being 5'9" and 135
> pounds with blonde
> hair and green eyes but she was a C student. She
> felt Kerrie had the
> better chance being just as pretty with long red
> wavy hair, blue eyes
> and a more shapelier figure and was a solid stright
> A student, making
> Dean's List EVERY SEMESTER!!
> The line was taking seeinly forever, and Kerrie
> and Lisa had to
> wait from 9:30 am to almost 4:00 in the afternoon.
> Nearly everone
> departing had a look on their face of either
> disgust, or that they
> were talking to Martians and both Kerrie and Lisa
> were getting
> impatient, they were just getting ready to leave,
> when finally, 15
> people ahead of them abruptly left, leaving just
> Kerrie and Lisa. A
> loud high pitched female voice cried out in
> frustration "Next"!!"
> and Kerrie was rolled forward, casts and all, in
> her wheelchair, by
> her devoted friend Lisa.
> As Kerrie and Lisa came into the interview booth,
> she saw 2
> females, one in her 50's with a librarian's demeanor
> and another one
> who looked vaguely familiar Kerrie thought to
> herself "Have I seen
> this lady before on TV?" Before she could think any
> further, her
> attention was jolted by her feeling her casts being
> touched! "Hi,
> honey!" said the familiar looking woman, who
> appeared to be in her
> late 40's, very stylish, almost sophisticated ." And
> what happed to
> you dear, that you need to wear those casts, you
> must have had a
> horrific accident!" Kerrie blushed and didn't know
> what to say, the
> truth or her usual story. Suddenly, it occurred to
> her to tell the
> truth, as she was sort ot acting and if the lady
> thought she was
> weird, she wouldn't have to deal with her again
> anyway. So, having
> nothing to lose, Kerrie told her story. What she
> said would affect
> the rest of her life in ways unimaginable and would
> eventually give
> her more money than she ever dreamed of having!
> Kerrie told Ms Thomas about her boyfriend back
> home in Burlington,
> the casts she wore and the stories she told her
> friends and
> schoolmates and how she adjusted to life wearing
> these casts. Of
> course Kerrie thought she was just being friendly
> and breaking the
> ice, or otherwise, alienating these people forever!
> Instead,
> suddenly the lady who looked like a librarian
> exclaimed in her high
> pitched voice, "Edie, come in back now!!!!"
> extremely excitedly like
> she had just found gold! "OK, Sara", said the
> familiar looking one.
> Kerrie and Lisa looked at each other in the way most
> young ladies do
> in wonderment with that face that says "what's going
> on here?" After
> about 10 long minutes, Edie came out and said to
> both Kerrie and
> Lisa, "If we can fly you to Los Angeles with all
> your expenses paid
> and hotel lodging included until you can find
> permanent housing
> there, would you consider working for us?" Hearing
> this, Kerrie
> almost fainted, as it was the least expected thing
> she thought she
> would hear. Kerrie talked with Lisa and they agreed
> and both said in
> unison, "let's go tomorrow!" Kerrie took out her
> cellphone and called
> her boyfriend to tell him the news. Shew promised
> him she would try
> to get back to Burlington once a mont and when she
> found a new
> permanent place to live she would arrange for
> tickets for him.
> Lisa made hasty arrangements with the landlord
> as the lease was
> in her name and he let them out of the lease as he
> wanted to renovate
> the building anyway. They made it to Logan airport
> with their
> tickets and met Edie and Sara at the United Airlines
> terminal.
> Handicap arrangements were made for Kerrie and she
> was wheeled onto
> the airplane and helped into her chair. Her casted
> legs were made to
> fit her area so she'd be comfortable (Don't forget,
> Edie and Sarah
> bought First Class travel tickets) . Smiling. Edie,
> the sophistcated
> one, told Kerrie and Lisa her story about how she
> was a soap star
> actress and the soaps always had scenes of an actor
> beingin the
> hospital in casts or needing medical care. The sets
> always hed to
> set up from scratch as there was no central clearing
> house to supply
> the medical equipment and items so she decided to
> cut back on her
> acting career and start a business that would supply
> the various
> production studios, film companies and other filming
> companies with
> the desired medical materials.
> As they landed, Kerrie was helped into a
> wheelchair and went to
> the airport terminal where they all met a stretch
> limousine that took
> them to the newest Hilton Hotel. All the paperwork
> was filed and
> Kerrie and Lisa had one of the best suites available
> in the hotel!
> Of course, Kerrie was the center of attention with
> her 2 long leg
> casts and all the eyes of the men followed her and
> many a man was all
> too willing to help her around, especially as she
> was a tall blonde
> wearing short shorts that showed every inch of her
> long casts and a
> short short showing her tanned, flat stomach
> sporting a brand new
> belly ring.
> Edie called Kerrie in her hotel room and said,  "Kerrie, make sure you go to bed and get plenty of rest tonight, because tomorrow we are putting you in new casts and it will be a very strenuous day for you, and it will be the last night you will be sleeping in a regular bed for quite a while. You are playing a hospital patient in intensive care with the works."

 Kerrie wondered just what kind of casts they would be, and the apprehension made her excited all the more as she was hoping for a full body cast or hip spica, but it wasn't altogether what she expected.

Chapter 5
Kerrie knowing that she had a very early appointment to see Dr
Appleworth at his hospital Orthopedic Unit with Eric assisting, she
made sure she went to bed at 11:30 pm. Lisa also had to go to bed
early as her shooting was supposed to start at 7:00 am as well. Aware
that she wouldn't see Kerrie for about a month in her normal
condition, Lisa wished Kerrie good luck and hugged her good night,
and both retired to bed.
      The alarm buzz jolted both awake at 5:00. Eric very soon knocked
on the door as he was advised to do so, and helped Kerrie get
dressed. She knew she didnt have to worry about make-up and all the
other things she normally did for preparation in the morning so
significant time was saved. She was ready at about 5:30 and Lisa was
just about ready to get up, but Eric and Kerrie had to leave
immediately for the appointment.  They arrived at the hospital at
6:15 and filled out paperwork about her medical history and had other
preparations started such as shaving certain parts and blood work-
ups. Kerrie was put on a gurney at 7:00 and was given a sedative so
all the procedures could start. The role to be played was that of a
teenage girl who had been involved in a pedestrian/ auto accident and
Kerrie was being cast as the pedestrian. The scene called for her to
be on life support in an intensive care unit with multiple fractures
and a respirator. Since most of the scenes would be shot in the
hospital environment of the character's family and boyfriend visiting
her and nurse and doctors tending her, everything needed to be as
realistic as possible and Kerrie had to be as immobile as possible.
      The first procedure was to insert an indwelling Foley catheter
to expel wastes. After that, an IV was inserted to supply Kerrie with
the nutrients she would need while basically unconscious for the 4
weeks. Then, the casts were to be applied. Long arm casts of white
standard fiberglass were applied to her arms from the mid-fingers
almost to the armpits, and a double hip spica was applied that went
from the toes of both legs to just above her breasts and a bar went
across the knees. Then she was to be intubated with a endotracheal
breathing apparatus, which went down her throat, and windpipe, as
Kerrie was administed a paralyzing agent that rendered her immobile
from the neck down and would almost shut her ability to breathe on
her own. Kerrie was totally unconscious as all this was done and
therefore unaware of absolutely anything around her. She knew,
beforehand, after all, that all footage of her scenes  would be
available, and even the medical procedures were filmed for her own
personal collection, plus all casts would be given to her as well,
once the scenes were shot and Kerrie was  restored to her normal
self.

Chapter 6

Throughout the time Kerrie was "out" Lisa came in every day for
at least 5 minutes to an hour, with Eric to check up on her. As the
5th week came, the doctor said, Ok, let's bring Kerrie out of her
induced coma. It'll be a while before she's 100% as she has to start
breathing in a normal pattern again and of course she'll be very
stiff from her prolonged immobilization. I'm calling 2 nurses in to
assist me and we should have her in the recovery room within 6 hours,
if all goes well."  The nurses came down from their break and
immediately started weaning Kerrie from the respirator and her
endotracheal tube. Kerrie started breathing, shallowly, at first then
as time progressed, with stronger breaths after every five minute
increments, as the drugs dosages were lowered. Finally, she opened
her eyes and tried to talk, after about 4 hours.
      Her voice was extremely raspy and laborious and she couldn't
help coughing, from the reflexive action resulting from the tube
being  in her throat for that extended time. "What day is it?,"
Kerrie whispered. Lisa replied;"It's Wednesday, August 10. You;ve
been unconscious since July 3rd". You're going home in a couple of
days once they know you can breathe ok". After a short while Kerrie
fell asleep again, exhausted from the strain of being brought back to
consciousness and slept fitfully until later that night. Eric and
Lisa went back to the hotel room and he removed her casts as her
shooting was through from the scene filming and Lisa was tired of
being helpless. The green LATS's were neatly cut in half and relined
for future use, as Lisa wanted to keep them for souvenirs as she did
love them for the attention they brought her. About 500 various men
had asked her out and about 80  people outside of the film crew asked
to take pictures of her!
      Meanwhile, at about 2:00 am, Kerrie woke with a start at the
hospital. She remembered suddenly about her mother who was in the
nursing home had wanted a birthday party made for her as her
condition was worsening and Kerrie had forgotten all about her own
mother amid all the excitement! Even though her mother was semi-
lucid, she had her moments of mental clarity here and there. So,
totally forgetting about her own temporary disabled condition, Kerrie
tried to get out of bed, thinking it was her own bed!  Kerrie
carelessly and quickly slid out of bed with her recently freed from
the cast stiff feet. The cast wasalso being held for safekeeping but
even if it was on her still, it would not have helped. Kerrie
immediately crashed down to the hard tile floor, her weak legs
snapping at the tibias from all of her weight being put on them
awkwardly, and her right forearm with her index and middle and ring
fingers snapping as well, being right under her. Her head also hit
the hard tile rapidly because of her weakness, knocking her out
instantly. An orderly making the rounds at that very moment, hearing
the dull thud, checked on her and seeing her broken body on the
floor, summoned for help immediately.


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 It was a long, turbulent plane ride back to Logan Airport in
Boston. It actually took the same legnth of time in real hours and
minutes, but with Kerrie's Injured limbs being jolted in the
turbulance during flight, pain shot up and down her limbs reminding
her of how badly injured shew actually was. Kerrie enjoyed, however,
the royal treatment she received from the First_Class flight
attendants as well as fellow male passengers, each with the desire to
meet the casted beauty and not just to sign one of her 4 casts but to
do much much more. Kerrie remained friendly and diplomatic but was
ever loyal to her dear boyfriend Eric, whom she knew was too close of
a match to her unique ways than to risk losing him by cheating on
him.
      Three rough hours later, the plane touched down and the crew
helped Kerrie into a wheelchair and Lisa wheeled her, with Eric
following, into the Airport terminal. They pitched in together and
rented a minivan so Kerrie could fit comfortably as her legs
certainly weren't going to bend with the long leg casts on both of
them. All the paperwork was arranged for rental, and before they
parted, the car rental agency rep asked the inevitable question "And
what happened to you?" to Kerrie. Kerrie didn't want to be seen as a
foolish klutz by telling the cute male rep what really happened so
she told him she had been struck by a minivan and lived to talk about
it. She flashed a demure sexy grin at him but thankfully Eric didn't
see it, after the rep whose name turned out to be Andrew  told her he
worked for an Orthopedic Supply company in the recent past but was
let go because of missing supplies, he hinted with a wink. He
promptly gave Kerrie his business card which she stuck clumsily in
her pocketbook with one her casted arms.
      They drove to Burlington where the first stop was the nursing
home where Kerri's mother was laying on her deathbed. She had
completed a DNR (do not rescuscitate) order in case of Cardiac arrest
before she had fallen so deathly ill. Fading in and out of lucidity,
the staff knew that her time was very near. Kerrie's mother, whose
name was Kayla, sddenly noticed Kerrie's 4 casted limbs and tied to
ask Kerrie what happened to her as any loving mother would, but
instead, the heart monitor displayed several last huge spikes in the
heartrate then the inevitable flat line. Kerrie flet guilty that she
was a possibly proverbial "straw that broke the camel's back" but was
comforted by one of her sisters who know it it wasn't then that Kayla
died, it would have been within a few hours anyway as Kayla's heart
was extremely bad.
      The funeral was held the next day, and Eric took Kerrie from the
Large Irish Catholic Church to the cemetary where Kayla was to be
buried.   As the vehicles left the cemetary, and Kerrie and her
boyfriend rolled onto the highway known as both Interstate 95 and
Route 128 , Eric's tiny Toyota, with Kerrie stretched out across the
back seat, was struck by a tractor trailer truck, whose driver was
distracted by a pen falling in the cab from the dashboard to the
floor. The trck, which was at a left angle of Eric's car, veered
right abruptly into the subcompact car, crushing it and killing Eric
instantly. The part of the car where Kerrie was laying, in the back
seat, was caught beneath the frame of the behemoth truck and Kerrie
was uninjured, except from the traumatic shock of seeing her dear
boyfriend taken from her so suddenly . Kerrie was unconscious and was
taken by an ambulance to the hospital, after the astonished
paramedics found her alive amid the tangled wreck of the tiny Toyota
which in a weird twist of fate, saved her life because the higher
minivan, which was being driven by Lisa, would most certainly have
been crushed in its entirety.
















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The phone rang suddenly near Lisa's bed, jolting her awake from a pleasant dream in which she had casts on all 4 limbs and she was with some pretty woman who she didn't recognize. Wiping her eyes groggily, she answered the phone. Hearing the head nurse yell excitedly "There's been an accident with Kerrie here at the hospital! We need you here immediately!" Lisa became alert quickly and her heart started beating rapidly . "Oh my God! I hope my dear Kerrie is OK!!! Her hands, wrists and elbows were still stiff from wearing the casts and she couldn't get dressed without significant assistance. Because she didn't like men to help her in this condition, she called Edie using the phone book selection on her cellphone. Edie was very alarmed as she was starting to like Kerrie as if she were her very own daughter and had never had an underling so compliant and cooperative as Kerrie. They ran to the hotel garage and got into Edie's Mercedes and rushed off to the hospital. At night the traffic in Los Angeles was very light so what took an hour daytime to go 15 miles took just 15 minutes at 3:00 am. They went to the hospital emergency room where Kerrie was transferred.
Kerrie had splints on both legs and her arms and had an anti-swelling ice cushion on her head. She was listed in serious condition but Lisa and Edie were assured that the injuries were not life-threatening. She would be in the hospital not for just the remaining day as scheduled, but possibly at least another 3 weeks! Lisa and Edie stayed in the hospital for the whole day as they felt terrible about what happened and Edie especially felt guilty about everything as the role for Kerrie in the film as an unconscious accident victim had led directly to Kerrie being an actual one! After a few days, casts were again put on Kerrie's legs and right arm, this time all in pink fiberglass over plaster. Thankfully, there was no skull fracture, just a concussion which subsided rather quickly and Kerrie's hospital departure would be in the best case scenario 3 weeks, but she would be in the 3 casts for at least 12 weeks. Once the time for her hospital release came up, she asked Eric to put a matching pink-over-plaster long arm cast on her left arm so it would match her right hand one. Dr Appleworthy was notified and he gave the approval as he knew the kind of person Kerrie was. Edie had been assured by Kerrie that she wouldn't file any lawsuit, as she wouldn't want to mess up this opportunity of a lifetime, and Edie in turn assured her that work could be found for Kellie in her condition so that there would be a constant cashflow for Kerrie and she wouldn't feel a burden on Edie. Edie arranged for Kerrie to be flown home to Massachusetts to see her ailing mother for what might be the last time, and Kerrie prepared herself to face her relatives, who would understand an accident, but would not be so sympathetic about being cast in Hollywood as a casted person, or even less so, just for fun!
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Kerrie's Casting Chapter 8
Plasterman, 2004-07-17 21:49
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It was a long, turbulent plane ride back to Logan Airport in
Boston. It actually took the same length of time in real hours and
minutes, but with Kerrie's injured limbs being jolted in the
turbulance during flight, pain shot up and down her limbs reminding
her of how badly injured she actually was. Kerrie enjoyed, however,
the royal treatment she received from the First-Class flight
attendants as well as from fellow male passengers, each with the desire to
meet the casted blonde beauty and not just to sign one of her 4 casts but to
do much much more. Kerrie remained friendly and diplomatic but was
ever loyal to her dear boyfriend Eric, whom she knew was too close of
a match to her unique ways than to risk losing him by cheating on
him.
Three rough hours later, the plane touched down and the crew
helped Kerrie into a wheelchair and Lisa wheeled her, with Eric
following, into the Airport terminal. They pitched in together and
rented a minivan so Kerrie could fit comfortably as her legs
certainly weren't going to bend with the long leg casts on both of
them. All the paperwork was arranged for rental, and before they
parted, the car rental agency rep asked the inevitable question "And
what happened to you?" to Kerrie. Kerrie didn't want to be seen as a
foolish klutz by telling the cute male rep what really happened so
she told him she had been struck by a minivan and lived to talk about
it. She flashed a demure sexy grin at him but thankfully Eric didn't
see it, after the rep whose name turned out to be Andrew told her he
worked for an Orthopedic Supply company in the recent past but was
let go because of missing supplies, he hinted with a wink. He
promptly gave Kerrie his business card which she stuck clumsily in
her pocketbook with one her casted arms.
They drove to Burlington where the first stop was the nursing
home where Kerri's mother was laying on her deathbed. She had
completed a DNR (do not rescuscitate) order in case of Cardiac arrest
before she had fallen so deathly ill. Fading in and out of lucidity,
the staff knew that her time was very near. Kerrie's mother, whose
name was Kayla, sddenly noticed Kerrie's 4 casted limbs and tried to
ask Kerrie what happened to her as any loving mother would, but after several weak gasps,
instead, the heart monitor displayed several last huge spikes in the
heartrate then the inevitable flat line. Kerrie felt guilty that she
was possibly the proverbial "straw that broke the camel's back" but was
comforted by one of her sisters who know it it wasn't then that Kayla
died, it would have been within a few hours anyway as Kayla's heart
was extremely bad.
The funeral was held the next day, and Eric took Kerrie from the
large Irish Catholic Church to the cemetary where Kayla was to be
buried. As the vehicles left the cemetery, and Kerrie and her
boyfriend rolled onto the highway known as both Interstate 95 and
Route 128 , Eric's tiny Toyota, with Kerrie stretched out across the
back seat, was struck by a tractor trailer truck, whose driver was
distracted by a package falling in the cab from the dashboard to the
floor. The truck, which was at a left angle of Eric's car, veered
right abruptly into the subcompact car, crushing it and killing Eric
instantly. The part of the car where Kerrie was laying, in the back
seat, was caught beneath the frame of the behemoth truck and Kerrie
was uninjured, except from the traumatic shock of seeing her dear
boyfriend taken from her so suddenly . Kerrie was unconscious and was
taken by an ambulance to the hospital, after the astonished
paramedics found her alive amid the tangled wreck of the tiny Toyota
which in a weird twist of fate, saved her life because the higher
minivan, which was being driven by Lisa, would most certainly have
been crushed in its entirety.
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Plasterman, 2004-07-17 21:58
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Kerrie was traumatized beyond her wildest nightmares. In the stretch
of one mere hour, she had buried her mother and now, the man she
hoped to marry someday was laying in a morgue, as a horribly mangled
and crushed corpse instead of the handsome muscular man she always
thought of. After many counseling sessions and a long grueling
physical therapy regimen, Kerrie was released from the hospital into
the care of Lisa. Both now had no casts on any limbs and Kerrie for
now didn't want to see a cast anytime in the near future.
Lisa had long ago explained the terrible situation to Edie, who was
fortunately very sympathetic and sent checks to cover a very
grateful Kerrie's expenses. Edie made it clear that with Kerrie out
of work and Edie not having her star employee to "work" for her in
her unique role , she had literally lost several million dollars in
business revenue from contracting studos and Edie made it very clear
that there would have to be a lawsuit against the trucking company
for lost business and wages as well as pain and suffering.
The business had been in a tailspin for a while before Kerrie started
with them after its former star employee Kim developed a spinal
disorder and became a wheelchair bound quadriplegic. The company was
finally in the black when Kerrie's accident happened and all business
froze.
A top notch Los Angeles personal injury lawyer was retained and
the lawsuit was successful. It turned out that the trucking company
had hired a trucker who was driving impaired and admitted that his
cocaine stash fell to the floor which distracted him and thus the
accident happened. The cocaine was never found and only came into
knowledge trhrough the trucker's admission of guilt because it had burned up when
the truck cabin split and the cocaine came into contact with the
truck's diesel engine which quickly destroyed it.
The case was settled for 30 million dollars which was split 3 ways,
Edie received one half, and the lawyer and Kerrie each were getting one quarter of
the settlement. With $7.5 million in the bank, and taxfree due to
exemptions and helped psychologically with expert counseling, Kerrie was now comfortable about being casted again, and
this was 2 and a half years after the accident. Stand-ins were hired
in the interim on the advice of the lawyer who turned out to be a
caster himself, referring people and friends he knew from the caster community who wanted to be recreational casters and be paid for it!
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Kerrie's Casting Chapter 10
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Edie, after a legnthy chat with the new Orthopedic Supply salesman, had completed the paperwork for her largest order yet. All kinds of braces and casting supplies were in the order but the biggest and most delightful surprse was yet to come for Edie, Lisa and especially for Kerrie. Kerrie, on crutches with a right long leg cast and left short leg cast, and Lisa, with both arms in long arm thumb/finger spicas came into the room where Edie and the sales rep were sitting and that lovely grin came across Kerrie's face as she recognized him, from the car rental agency, nearly 3 years since she returned to Boston to say goodbye to her mother.
"Andrew!" she exclaimed. What are you doing here!!! He said likewise and after spending awhile updateing each other. Andrew , after seeing Kerrie that time in her long leg and long arm casts and in the wheelchair, grew wistful about his old orthopedic sales job from which he was fired. While not getting along with his boss and the boss using some deappeared supplies as an excuse, Andrew did enjoy taking those missing supplies and sometimes casted himself in small casts such as SAC's and also put a few on his girlfiend Misty who enjoyed the restriction of movement . Andrew had tried to reimburse the company but never could succeed due to accounting complications. Therefore, knowing he couldn't go back to his old place, but needing be in that same line of work again, he called a larger firm Johnson's and managed to get his favorite activity back due to his handsome All-American looks and his disarming personal charisma. The firm, needing a new rep in Los Angeles two and ahalf years after hiring Andrew asked him if he's be willing to relocate. He said yes as he always wanted to be in the Los Angeles area. After building some new accounts and retaining a few old ones, Andrew became the top representative in Los Angeles!
Kerry and Andrew shortly agreed on a date and what better place for a publicking than at Disneyland! Kerry's current role involved a medical patient with a bone disease that was progressing so just one day before the Disneyland date, Kerrie had to have her casts changed. She was now put into two blue long leg casts with the knees bent 40 degrees and spread fairly far apart with a spreader bar between the legs and a double shoulder spica! Andrew happily loaded her into a wheelchair and did everything for her, taking care of her sanitary needs as well as feeding her, as her arms were now totally immobilized down to midway down to her fingers!
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Kerrie's Casting Chapter 11
Plasterman, 2004-07-22 11:15
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Kerrie had an awesome time at Disneyland with all the attention given to her and even though plenty of those people gawking at the sight of Kerrie in the wheelchair with 4 cast on included many guys, Andrew was proud nevertheless because her knew those men shared the same interest he had in those very same casts! Kerrie and Andrew decided to let it go for another week and then Kerrie would have a new assignment with Lisa with another major accident scenario. Andrew, with Kerrie's large salary was able to procure much more supplies and in an honest way, wven though it wouln't really matter as his girlfriend, in her job, was always going to be in casts until she could no longer do it physically or until the studio decided that she couldn't play the roles anymore. Both knew that with Kerrie being only 25, that situation was still years away.
Edie, meanwhile, wanted Lisa to play the role of a bombing victim in light of recent terrorist attacks and a demand for stories and information about them. Thiis would be a straight acting role and since Lisa was Jewish and looked the part more than Kerrie, Lisa was chosen. Much preparation was needed. The role was sending her from portraying a healthy young 18 year old Israeli girl to a seriously maimed 20 year old and the ordeal she and her family had to go through. Lisa first had her "normal scenes" filmed, which took about 2 weeks for about 20 minutes of footage which built up to the disaster, then the preparation began. Special effects contact lenses were made which mimicked both the outer appearance of a blind person and made those effects very real to the wearer. Lisa went into the dressing room with the special effects consulting doctors, who ased Lisa to remove her normal contact lenses. Then the new ones were placed on her eyes. Lisa was astonished at how real they seemed. She exclaimed "Who turned off the lights!!??" The special effects optometrist, named Goldie Havens, replied,"No one turned off the lights. The new contact lenses, which I just put on your eyes, are specially made to be totally opaque, and have a wider surface area to prevent any light to strike any part of the eye! "Wow, Lisa said, this is totally terrifying. I would never wish blindness on anyone, seeing this!"
Next, Edie had Andrew serve as the new Othopedic Technician and he had to work in concert with an Orthotist-Prostheticist. A special brace was made by first making a body-cast of Lisa's torso so that the exact measurements and fit could be otained. after the mould was created, the harness was built that would hold Lisa's arms very tight to her body, over which body suit mimicking her actual body but with stumps instead of arms over the harness. The whole contraption was ready within 2 days, and Lisa had to wear it for the duration of filming in order to get the "feel" of a high DAK amputee. To add the finishing touch, 2 long leg casts were applied to Lisa's legs with toe platforms. The filming began to Lisa had to endure this for 4 weeks.
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Kerrie's Casting Chapter 12
Plasterman, 2004-07-28 13:43
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Lisa confided to Kerrie on the very first day the special orthosis was put on her that she always wanted to experience the feel on an amputee, having seen many and actually having a female DSD (double shoulder disarticulation) amputee as a classmate throughaout high school who became a friend to Lisa. The girl, named Cassandra, had been born in the Midwest, in Kansas and had lost both arms at the shoulder in an accident involving a threshing machine. Cassandra was 12 and was trying to untangle a few sticks that were blocking other pieces from going into the machine. The next thing she knew, she got tangled and pulled into the machine. Before Cassandra could even react, her arms were already torn by the blades. Her older brother Rolfe rescued her just by being near enough to quickly shut the machine and use his shirt and pants as tourniquets to stop the heavy bleeding which, without his quick reaction, would have been fatal. Once Casssandra was well enough after being hospitalized, her family had to move to the Boston area to help with her rehabilitation and to get her a special prosthetic device which was battery powered and had artificial arms with hooks, That went around her body and was very heavy and when Casssandra befriended Lisa, she invited her over her house and showed her how it worked and how she took it off and put in on.
When Edie interviewed Lisa for the part, she asked Lisa if she was familiar with any one who was an amputee and had to wear prosthetics or use other assistive devices. With Lisa's positive attitude and comments and background, Edie knew she had a lock on the part. Wearing the prosthesis was an ordeal as it weighed about twenty pounds, had tight latex fabric which had a very lifelike appearance of skin, which clung tightly around the frame and Lisa's torso. Her arms were held behing her lower back in a very tight brace with very secure straps held by velcro. The arms of the prosthesis which mimicked stumps were allowed movement by myoelectric motors with sensors which picked up signals by brain activity. The device was kept on all day and was only removed at night by the technical crew. As the weeks of filming wore on, the character was shown progressing through rehab and then her eventual daily life as an additional prosthesis was introduced, an actual pair of hooks which fit over the prosthetic "stumps" that Lisa was wearing!
As Lisa was delighted to see the pair of hooks, as she had always wanted to have her own pair with which to pretend, so she asked Edie and the producer if she could keep the whole contraption, to which they said yes of course, as it was custom made and even though producing it cost $54,000, it would have been tossed out as "junk" because no one else would have had use for it! After filming was completed, it was given to her in a box which she brought home, and of course, showed Kerrie how to use it. A few days after being shown the hooks, Kerrie wanted her own pair to "play around" with and asked Edie if she could have her own pair made. Kerrie offered to pay for it as she had enough money for a less expensive version that would fit over her existing hands. Arrangements were made with the consulting prostheticist and a pair was made for Kerrie, which were made out of a cast made of her hands. The basic pieces went over her hands to just below her elbows, covering them completely then attached to hinges which led to upper arm parts, at the same time hiding her actual upper forearms and elbows and being restrictive enough rotationally to mimic a DAE (double above elbow) amputee. Kerrie enjoyed using it and wore it on trips out of state in between filming casting scenes and became proficient enough that many people thought she was an actual double arm amputee!
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Plasterman, 2004-07-28 14:40
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All the while as Lisa was filming her amputee story parts, Kerrie, of course, had some of the casts applied by Andrew removed after one week, as promised. The casts, all 4 of which were made of blue fiberglass, did not fit the new role she had to do for the next month which was a story bas on the true story of a bicycle accident victim who had been hit by a van and had broken all four limbs. All four old casts were removed as scenes had to be filmed of Kerrie bicycling but it was seen very quickly that a stand-in for Kerrie had to be used, as her four limbs were too stiff and atrophied to do much physical activity, even standing! So, new casts were made in a more traditional manner but again going from toes to groin on her legs, bent slightly at the knees and again on both arms from the base of her fingers to her armpits. The color mode was changed from plain blue to a stars and stripes format for the Fourth of July holiday ,and Kerrie agreed to wear all four casts from July 1 to September 10 as she was also going to be a centerpiece for 2 convention exhibiting her company's work and what better color than red and white stripes on one side's casts and the other side white stars on a blue background!
The summer had the most fun for Kerrie as the hospital scenes were done with her in treatment, traction, then the casts being applied and finally her release from the hospital and how the character's miserable summer went as the van driver was never caught and the girls's character could not tend to her pet horses. Kerrie loved the interaction with the horses, petting them and trying to feed them as best as she could. The filming lasted for all of July but the scenes were always shot in the morning and Kerrie had the afternoon's and evenings to be with Andrew, who took her just about everywhere in an elevating legrest wheelchair and the flamboyant casts attracted attention everywhere. With the peak tourist season at hand, hundreds of people took pictures of Kerrie with her red, white and blue casts and, of course, at the convention, Kerrie sat in the same wheelchair at her company's booth in the convention hall with Edie, answering questions and posing for countless photos and videocameras. Edie answered the questions which had the business aspect of their segment of the motion picture industry and Kerrie answered the questions involving the human aspect and the day to day activity and inactivity.
Even though a lot of people especially the fitness buffs, were not too thrilled to be immobile knowing about the risk of atrophy and even worse, the risk of blood clots from the immobilization, a lot of young people in high school and college signed up for internships which allowed for short term periods of being in casts and having an acting part in a movie or television show . One by one, each one told Kerrie how much they like the sigght of the cast on someone of the opposite sex and certain people did have a liking for the restriction on movement the casts created. The career fair that occurred first, duting the Fourth of July holiday also gave a little bonus: those who had a positive response were allowed to have a cast or two applied by Andrew for the next few days, or week which he agrred to remove, at the cost of only the supplies, paid for by credit card or cash! 25 People had casts applied, as follows:
10 people had one short arm cast applied, on their non-dominant limb,
(5 men and 5 women)
7 people had one short leg cast applied , on usually the left leg, so they could still drive,
(4 men, 3 women)
4 people had a long arm cast applied to their non dominant arm
(3 women, 1 man)
2 people had both arms in casts
(one woman, one man)
2 people had both legs in casts, and rented a wheelchair
(two women)
Kerrie noticed that the ones who had the more restrictive casts were women, who did it at the behest of their boyfriend, or were the more flamboyant type, who like more attention.
At the trade show involving other contractors within the motion picture industry, done on Labor Day Weekend, Kerrie did fairly much the same thing, but Andrew was instead assigned to showing his own skills while being paid by the respective interested company,
and casted that perosn for the day at their request, but only short arm casts, strictly, were done, to limit any bad feelings the other comapny might have for loss of productivity of their employee.
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Kerrie's Casting Chapter 14
Plasterman, 2004-08-06 09:31
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Just as suddenly summer came, it was past and the Labor Day Weekend passed by just as quickly. The Labor Day Convention booked 15 solid new clients who needed someone to stand in with casts or braces or be available for any other medical situation, and 25 others were tentative. Kerrie absolutely loved her quadruple set of casts of the stars on blue background for her left side anfd the red and white stripes on her right side. Nonethe less, casts being casts, Kerrie knew she had a major problem and all the money in the world would not solve it. She knew that she could hardly walk prior to having this set of casts applied 2 months ago, and needed a look-alike stand-in just to film the bicycle riding scenes and her limbs were even more atrophied and stiff than even before. Her new Orthopedic doctor ,Dr. Shepherd, told her the bad news: She would either have to quit her job and undergo at least a year of intense, painful, arduous physical therapy to regain merely 75 to 80 percent of her former muscle tone and mobility, and at best still have to use a cane, or at the least, crutches the rest of her life, or, if she decided to continue with her "career" at a stand in cripple/ orthopedic patient, she would be confined to a wheelchair the rest of her life, but it was her decision.
Kerrie had to debate this and plan her whole life now. She knew the money was excellent, being paid indefinitely $1000 per day now with a guaranteed pension far better than anything she could get in the corporate world outside of the motion picture industry plus allowances for inflation if she continued in this capacity but have her future consisting of being confined to a wheelchair for life at the mere age of 26, or , as her alternative was given,retire, go on disability, void her contract which still had 14 years to go until she could retire with full benefits, forfeiting those benefits instead for the ability to walk in a limited capacity and only get $1000 per month from Social Security Disability, which was effectively 1/30th of what she would get by continuing to work as a cripple! After a couple of days mulling over it, she called Dr Shepherd, Edie and all of their respective attorneys, deciding to go ahead with her career as a pretend cripple/orthopedic patient and stipulated in writing that she knew she would no longer be able to walk ever again if she continued to to work as she chose and would "hold harmless" Edie and her her production company from being sued due to the loss of ability to walk or other daily tasks. Lisa also heartily agreed to due the same being of one mind with her best friend Kerrie. With the assurance that this was done, Edie was now able to give Kerrie and Lisa a 25% raise, and asked her old stand in Kim if she wanted to come out of "retirement". Kim was still only 32 so she agreed as she needed the money and because she was as close to Edie as Kerrie and Lisa were, she agreed to the same terms as well. Kim, as explained earlier, had multiple sclerosis so she was already confined to a wheelchair for life so it didn't matter. At this point casts may as well have been footwear for her at this time!
All three now were booked to play 3 friends who were on a small airplane that crashes and they are the lone survivors. The casts were, of course, going to be applied by Andrew who was on cloud nine knowing he was going to see his gorgeous blonde girlfriend with casts just about EVERY DAY FOR FOURTEEN MORE YEARS!!!!! And her 2 co-workers were just as easy on the eyes as Kerrie was especially with thir assortment of casts, braces and orthotics!! The casting sessions for the 3 women would have been torturous for someone just looking at it as a job, taking over 15 hours but Andrew was as fresh and awake at the 13th hour as he was when he first started the session. 4 coffees got him through the final 2 hours. Kerrie had Long arm casts made of basic white for "broken radius and ulnas" on both sides and a hinged long leg cast on her right leg for the "broken kneecap and ankle" and a singleleg spica that went from her chest down to her toes of her left leg for the "broken femur amd jumerus". Lisa had a contraption made that was similar to that of Boxing Helena, wherethat actress played aquadruple ampitee, but Lisa instead played a double hip disarticulation amputee and double below amputee. Hook prosthetics were made that went over her real hands after a mold was made of her forearms and a special bed was made that had a hole in the middle where her real legs sat on a frame below comfortably and an orthotic device was molded that appeared to go from her midsection down to where her torso would appear to "end" right where the legs would normally begin, with no stumps remaining. It was anatomically correct and when Lisa saw herself in the mirror, she quickly turned red as a beet as she appeared "naked" from the chest down even though in reality she had bikini underwear on the whole time below the whole in the bed, where her still very real legs actually rested!
Finally, Kim was put in a double shoulder spica that went halfway down to all her fingers and a double hip spica from her breasts down past her toes with toe platforms! She was also given the special contact lenses that overlay the pupils and scleras that altered her real her blue eye color to appear green and because they were totally opaque, gave her the exact senation of blindness as she character had lost her eyesight in the movie, as weel as having had broken femurs, tibias and fibulas and humeruses and radiuses and ulnas amid other broken bones!
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Casting Kerrie Chapter 15
Plasterman, 2004-09-04 09:46
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The filming of the movie bgan very shortly after the casts were applied to Kerrie and Lisa. They were told by Edie that they would probably be in these most confining casts yet for about 8 weeks as that was the minimum duration needed in order to complete the scenes that contained the female characters with the casts. All the other scenes were to be filmed afterward and Kerrie planned to take a nice long vacation, maybe with 2 long leg casts on and nothing more, and take a trip down to Florida with Lisa, Andrew and Lisa's new boyfriend. At least 75 percent of the cast scene filming was complete when it was learned that a fire had burned the storage facility where all the archived video was stored and there were no back-up archives!
Even though Kerrie and Lisa really enjoyed the confinement and immobility of not being able to move their arms or legs for extremely long periods of time, Kerrie took it really hard now because she was finally realizing that the more haer arms and legs were casted, the less mobility she would have afterward and each physical therepy regimen she undertook after each cast seesion was becoming ever more difficult, painful and strenuous. This latest disaster meant another 2 months of cast confinement for both of them. Sure, the casts would have to be changed to allow for the always-occurring atrophy but eight weeks was eight weeks and Kerrie did have her mind set on being in Florida during the summer and not fall, when hurricane season set in. Two cast changes were made, and she had nice long hot baths in between each of the times the new casts were applied, to eb clean, to eliminate the dead skin tissue and to refresh herself. A person had to be with both of them each time the bath was taken as neither Kerrie nor Lisa had ANY strength in their arms or legs to climb out of the bath or even lift themselves out of the water should they have happened to sink underneath the water to much and risk drowning. At long last, the filming ended and all of the appliances and casts were removed.
A few days later, Kerrie had Andrew apply 2 long leg casts made with green fiberglass and Lisa wore her favorite 2 plaster long arm thumb/finger spica casts. Kerrie booked a flight to Florida for 4 around labor day weekend and all four headed down to Florida's Disney World.
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Plasterman, 2004-09-04 10:21
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Kerrie had a nightmare about going on the flight, with scenes of flooding and isolation but figured to herselfm what could happen? As they boarded the flight, Lisa finally had the time for her boyfriend to aquaint himself with Kerrie, and Andrew. His name was Steve, and he had grown up in Florida himself! This was why Kerrie had chosen Florida as her destination as Lisa lobbied her heavily to go there. Originaly Kerrie wanted to head for Hilton Head in the Carolinas as she had heard it was a great resort, especially for the newly wealthy, but Steve's family were wealthy themselves, owning a major film studio and they had a large mansion at Palm Beach! His father built the business from the ground up in the 1950's and with the ever increasing popularity of TV, he had virtually guaranteed growth for more tv shows and commercials. The never ending flow of money gave Steve the luxury of being able to have any toy he wanted as a little boy and to have the best car in High school.
He had a 1996 Lexus when it was brand new, while in high school and had just traded it in for a 2005 Maybach, made by Daimler Benz, paid for in cash!. His introduction to Lisa came while the filming of their last movie was in hiatus and the crew had taken Lisa out for a ride in her halo brace and hook prosthetics, which went over her real hands, minus the lower amputation simulator. Steve was exiting the car dealership next door to the restaurant when he happened to glance over to look at the tempertature indicator on the side of the building and he spied Lisa with her movie crew. As a man with a lifelong fascination with casts and braces, Steve came over and pretended to ask for directions just so he could have a reason to talk to the girl with the halo brace and hook prosthetics!
As it turned out, Lisa explained to Steve that she wasn't a real amputee but the hooks were merely very realistic props and she had to keep them on so she could get used to them for her role in the movie. She showed them how they worked with the shoulder harness and cables and explained how they were molded over her real hands, which she couldn't move at all, as if a cast were covering them. After Steve related that he also had a young female cousin he also was a double arm amputee and hook wearer and he always had a crush on her, Steve talked about himself, telling her who she was. The whole crew knew what his company was and several of them had actually worked for his company so he was able to mix rght in with the group. One thing led to another and Lisa and Steve hit it off, especially when she found out he was Jewish just like herself, as she saw the diamond-encrusted Star of David hanging on the chain around his neck. He asked her out and they like each other more and more. Finally he decided to have her meet his folks in Florida and thus the trip was arranged, with her friends as Steve liked Kerrie almost as much as he did Lisa.
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I WANT MORE AND LONGER
Anonymous User, 2004-09-22 06:09
PLEASE MAKE THEM LONJGER AND MORE FREQUENT
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Casting Kerrie Chapter 17
Plasterman, 2004-10-28 15:37
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Kerrie and Lisa arrived within 3 hours of their departure from Boston's Logan Airport, after having one delay after another as the now heavily guarded airport had police and security types everywhere, but among them, security wasn't the only thing on their mind. Being two very attractive young women, Kerrie and Lisa were certainly noticed by quite a few male security guards, a few of which were entranced with the casts the girls were wearing, the two green long leg casts which were very well molded to Kerrie's still very long and shapely legs, now virtually useless due to long term disuse and atrophy, and Lisa's two long arm plaster casts which rendered her helpless as her thumbs were both covered and her fingers halfway to her ginger joints on both hands, which were accentuated with 3 inch long fingernails Lisa grew that were decorated with all sorts of nail art and jewelry. Because of their helplessness, they were accompanied by Steve, Lisa's boyfriend who helped Lisa do all of her personal tasks and by Andrew who had a constant erection as he accompanied Kerrie, pushing her wheelchair, which gave him a fabulous view of her long leg casts from over Kerrie's head, with her toenails painted a sexy shade of pink. Quite a number of guards asked the girls what happened to them and they gave the made up story of joint disease resulting from a sequence of catastrophic accidents which had caused the multiple fractures, including a failed parachute jump and being run over by their own SUV which had slipped out of gear.
Finally they made it to the Orlando Hilton where Steve's parents booked them for the first few nights until they could make their house handicapped accessible. The weather forecast called for a fierce hurricane of category 5 strength which is the strongest type, and everyone was urged to evacuate. Being the hardy type and having a very strong thirst for adventure and living dangerously, Steve was not about to give in to the dire report of the horrible weather and the girls and Andrew all concurred, that they would all stick together and ride it out. After two days in the hotel, Steve and Andrew helped Kerrie and Lisa get ready and they all went in Steve's new 2005 Maybach, withKerrie riding in the back seat, sitting sideways, of course, with her casted legs resting across Lisa's and Andrew's laps.
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Casting Kerrie Chapter 18
Plasterman, 2004-10-28 16:18
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The ride in the ultraluxurious Maybach was very smoothe and pleasant, as expected for a car the costs over $100,000.00. So, as Kerrie and the others feel the car suddenly jolt and have the rear serve to the side, their hearts went into their mouths as they all realized simultaneously THE HURRICANE ARRIVED!!! Steve shouted out loudly "Don't worry, we'll get their safe and sound to my folks' place!" but within a few minutes, the roar of the hurricane's fierce winds grew ever louder and soon enough, they paid for their foolhardiness. The car was grapped by a sudden powerful gust, which forced it into the path of a dumptruck going the opposite direction on route 1! Steve could not control the car as it defied his every strength he applied to a steering wheel. Their was a hjorrible sound of the car smashing, steel bending, window smashing and everyone toosed in various directions as the truck collided with the expensive luxury Maybach auto, which was no match for the over ten-ton truck. Everything went black and in what seemed like seconds, Kerrie awoke, with a haze over her vision and unable to move anything. Kerrie could vaguely make out the shape of a woman in white and tried to talk, but all she could manage was a "mmmmmmmfffffffhhhhppnnnddd" sound. The nurse in the intensive care unit, however,understood, as she had seen this so many times with severely injured trauma patients. Realizing Kerrie was in very severe pain and was not prepared for the horrific news, she tried to inform Kerrie gently, saying, "You've been in a very bad car accident, we're not sure yet how your friends will be, but you've re-broken both legs (the nurse had assumed theat Kerrie's legs were broken because of the shattered casts Kerrie was wearing when she was brought into the hspital) and your arms were severly shattered as well. You've fractured your spine in four places, your neck and 18 ribs as well as both hips and your jaw is wired because of upper and lower mandible fractures which caused th loss of most of your teeth. You also have several skull fractures. You've been on the critical list because of all these injusreies for two weeks now and yu were in a medically induced coma to prevent swelling of the brain due to the skull fractures".
Kerrie was able, despite her severe injuries, to absorb the information and again tried to talk, "hkkkmmmmmmfrrrrrrdssssnnnnnnn". Again the well-versed nurse understood and replied, " We found your wallet and notified your agents who we understand act as your next-of-kin and we told them of your condition. Edie has been here since day one of your hospitalization, but we're afraid o tell you that she's had a mild heartattack due to stress and is hospitalized right now!"
Kerrie practically fainted, passing out from the devastating news of her condition coupled with the effects of the high dosage of demerol painkillers which had been administered to her. She again woke up about two days later, only to find out that both Steve and Andrew were killed in the accident, their bodies crushed by the dumptruck and Lisa had to have both legs above the knees and her right arm amputated at the shoulder and left arm above the wrist. She broke down sobbing and tried to mumble loudly "awrrrrrrwwwwwwwsssssrrrrr". The nurse told her, "You'll be able to see her in about 4 more days, as she is still in psych due to depression". Kerrie, with her head immobilzed in a minerva cast which was basically incorporated into a full body cast, sunk her eyes sadly.
The four days went by and finally Kerrie had a few visitors. Edie was walking in, in her hospital gown, and was pushing poor Lisa in her wheelchair. Kerrie looked at her with pity but with sisterly longing and they all wept together. As Kerrie couldn't tale but Lisa could, depite her own very severe injuries, she tried to cheer up Kerrie, saying, "don't worry, Kerrie! You'll get better and will be able to go home in 4 weeks and I'll be fitted with artificial legs and arms, and I'll even have a real pair of hooks! Kerrie knew that "better' was relative, and she knew that even with intense physical therapy. she'd be confined to a respirator and wheelchair, being a C3 quadriplegic for the rest of her life. She glumly told Edie the she'd have to retire, but Edie replied, "not to worry!, you've gave us your all so we'll be putting you up in a mansion with 24 hour round the clock personal service. You deserve it and this will be for life. My company and my people love you and will always appreciate what you've done for us!" Kerrie knew her future was grim but she accepted this with tremendous gratitude as she feared being stuck for life in a nursing home with elderly people sitting alone in a corner staring off into space. She just hoped some man would come again into her life, as she'd lost two loves at a very young age.
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Casting Kerrie,Chapter 19
Plasterman, 2005-02-20 18:53
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Kerrie had been kept unconscious by a special medical research team for 35 years in a state of suspended animation. She agreed to sign the permission papers as she had now become an amputee and could no longer enjoy wearing casts plus her fiancee and girlfriend were both dead in the horrible accident.
In what seemed an instant, Kerrie felt her eyes opening and it seemed no time had elapsed. She cried out in a raspy voice, " I thought I was going to be kept unconscious for 25 hears!!!" to which a soft female reply was "Yes, it is now 2038 and we now have the ability to renew your life as you would wish it!!! The nurse continued, "Kerrie, the world considers you to be a hero and an example for our world that you were willing to be a human guinea pig just to feel the experiences an actual patient would feel who would need to wear casts. So, because of the circumstances involved, the government, with the strong encouragement of the president, decided to pay for all of your hospital expenses and ensuing treatments!"
Kerrie was now shown what was to happen. Medical technology had advanced to a point wear DNA could be taken from a person's body, and given a complete probramming of that individual's gemome, could regenerate body parts from individual cells! Kerrie was wheeled downa long corridor and into deep underground part of the hospital where she was shown a pair of actual legs which were identical to her own long sexy legs of her 20's. Kerrie was then shown a mirror to reassure her that she hadn't aged much due to the suspended animation she was kept in. In the mirror, Kerrie saw what seemed to be a tragically handicapped 26 year old double above knee and above elbow amputee and she screamed out in disbelief" You're all lying! It is still, 2004 and you are just trying to keep me from going insane. She was then shown a series of newspapers and magazines, all from this year of 2038 and all had weird type sets and the magazines seemed to be holographic 3D images jumping out at her! She was also shown a news p: program again with weird events which included the most shocking thing of all: her boyfriend's best friend who used to tag along with them on their cast adventures WAS NOW PRESIDENT OF THE USA!!!!!!!!!
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Casting Kerrie Chapter 20
Plasterman, 2005-03-13 22:08
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Kerrie gaped in astonishment as she saw her deceased fiancee
Andrew's best friend Stevie having his PRESIDENTIAL State of the
Union speech being broadcast on a now-standard issue HDTV wide screen
television and she now, as she looked closer, confirmed it was indeed
him, as the familiar scar on his cheek from an old bicycle accident
still displayed itself prominently on his left cheek. Kerrie normally
didn't pay attention to presidential speeches but this one captivated
her. She thought to herself, then couldn't help but exclaim
loudly, "How did this DORK get to be president!?". Kerrie liked
Stevie as a person, for sure, but would never have gone out with him
as he was so out of touch with everything in popular culture and just
seemed to be so fixated on every cast Kerrie and her old friend Lisa
wore and he would just stare all the time at them and endlessly try
to take pictures. He must have had 2000 or more photos of Kerrie and
Lisa in his collection, she thought.
She loooked down at her poor, decimated, abbreviated body, with
her leg stumps sitting like 2 balonies on the wheelchair seat and she
longed for the old view of plaster going from her thighs to her toes.
So, feeling somewhat emboldened and calmer now with a pont of
reference, knowing the actual PRESIDENT of the USA personally, she
asked her assigned personal assistant, "when do I get my new legs?
And, will I get to meet the president now that he gave his personal
OK for this project?" the PA, named Sarah, turned and said with a
very cheerful smile, "I'm so glad you asked about that! President
Thomas assigned me personally to you at his own White House expense
budget, because of certain things you and I have in common. I must
have worn about 250 casts myself just for fun so I know exactly how
you feel to have the sensation of restricted mobility instead of that
void feeling of nothing even being there. President Thomas is going
to be paying us a visit tomorrow, and believe it or not, he is the
first president of this country to be a bachelor!"
At that very instant a very unusual fantasy played itself in
Kerrie's mind and she shook her head to snap out of it. She was
actually imagining herself getting married to President Thomas amidst
all the presidential pomp and circumstance! She jarred herself awake
to come to the realization that she was being lifted from her
wheelchair onto a gurney to be prepared for surgery.
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didnt steve die
Anonymous User, 2006-01-18 20:34
in chapter 18...
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Plasterman, 2005-03-13 22:45
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As Kerrie was being prepped with the IV lines and the markings made on her limbs for the incisions, the chief surgeon of the hospital came into the operating theater and announced, the President is here to visit! Within seconds, the Secret Service team entered to secure the area, and shortly behind them was the President, Steven Thomas, or Stevie as Kerrie always knew him. As he entered, Stevie thought to himself, here I am, the most powerful man on the planet, and I can't even control my own organ! He grimaced at the thought momentarily, as as quick as the thought came and went, the old goofy grin that Kerrie was so familiar with came on to the President's face. All of his assistants who noticed it wondered to himself, as did Kerrie herself, "is our President reverting to his old dorkiness". After all, it is often said, you can take a man and make him President, but you can't make him a new person. Stevie looked over at Kerrie admiringly as she always did, and then did what many was impossible, he lost his composure totally and his voice started squeaking as it often did whenever he became nervous or excited. The words came out in a high pitched manner which made everyone in the room laugh, from the surgical assistants up to the Secret Service men! "How are you, feeling, Kerrie?" Kerrie smiled the best she could and feigned being honored in the President's presence, even though it still was the same old dorky Stevie and both mutually knew it! I have to make him look good, Kerrie thought, and she winked and whispered in his ear, remember, you're the President now" He somehow regained his composure and his familiar deep voice and said, as the cameras of the news media continued rolling, "May God bless you and grant you a full recovery as anyone could ever hope for". Kerrie thanked him and he kissed her cheek.
Kerrie was then wheeled over to the operating table and the President and his team departed with all the press behind them all talking in wonderment and speculation. Little did they realize that their wildest guess as to the cause of the president's puzzling behavior was going to become more accurate than they ever thought. Before the anesthesia was administered to Kerrie, she was introduced to her new limbs. "They look exactly like my old ones, they are absolutely beautiful!" Kerrie gushed. "And guess what, said the chief surgeon, Dr Walton, "these limbs won't atrophy because of the new muscle regenerating technoloy we built into them thanks to Applied Continuous Electric Muscular Stimulation. Remember the old days when you had to have the device strapped on outside each limb? Thanks to nanotechnology we can insert a component into each muscle, which will enable you to wear casts continuously and you will never lose your muscle tone or strength!" Upon hearing this, the expression on Kerrie's face looked like that of a little girl on Christmas Day opening her presents!
Kerrie was sedated and the operating crew went to work. Incisions were made in each limb's end, and all the veins, arteries, muscles and nerves were attached, perfectly versus only somewhat in the olden days of early limb reattachment surgery, the limbs were sutured in a very fine manner to reduce scarring, and a full body cast was applied to Kerrie, from her ankles to her shoulders and down to her wrists, Her feet and hands were allowed to be free to enhance the muscle regeneration and to monitor circulation.
Meanwhile, the media frenzy concerning the President's new-found squeaky voice was highlighted in every newspaper, despite a devastating war in the Middle East between the newly aggressive Russian military machine and all the countries south of it and a crushing near-depression in the American and European economies. "President Squeaky!" or similar funny headers made the headlines on half of all the American and European newspapers and magazines, finally providing everyone a much needed laughing respite from their continuous