Difficult morning by strace44 on DeviantArt (original) (raw)

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Renee enjoyed the rest of her first evening in her cast -- she wasn't enthralled about needing her partner's help to get ready for bed, but she didn't let this dampen the good mood she was in from the fantastic sex earlier in the day. She took a little longer to fall asleep than her partner, and she woke up once or twice in the middle of the night, tried and mostly failed to re-situate, then fell back to sleep quickly.

All things considered, she slept reasonably well, and she was awoken by sunlight and the sound of birds chirping outside. The next sensation she registered was the immobilization of her arms and most of her upper body, and she looked down at the black fiberglass encasing her arms, hands, and thumbs. Renee tried to move her hands together, tried to move her arms downward, and she was immensely frustrated as the cast held firm. She knew intellectually that being stuck in the cast would be frustrating at times, that there would be periods when she would be irritated or angry about being so restricted, but she'd managed to overcome that frustration the previous day.

Waking up in the cast was another matter, though. Renee wanted nothing more than to take a break from it, to regain the independence she'd lost; she wanted to go to the bathroom or brush her teeth or wash her face without help, or to curl up on the couch alone with a cup of coffee.

She looked over at her partner, still sound asleep, and at that moment she felt like she was under the control of the cast and not him. She resented being so helpless, so dependent ... for a moment she considered waking him up and demanding that he get the fucking thing off of her, as she'd done shortly after waking up in the previous double shoulder spica cast she'd worn.