My brother Adam was so excited. He had just turned twenty and finally had enough money to move out on his own. He had a really nice apartment with a pool close to his job. He was close enough to work that he often would walk. A week after he moved out a drunk driver just going home at 7:00 AM jumped the curb and hit Adam. He barely bumped my brother’s hip but when Adam fell he cracked his head on the edge of a concrete wall and was knocked out. Adam spent several days in the hospital before he was released.
Adam didn’t want to be at home alone. He was suffering from Traumatic Brain Injury, TBI, which caused him some memory issues. In addition to his TBI he was having headaches that were so bad the drugs he took meant he was often barley lucid, and would sleep allot. Some days were better than others, but most days he would take his tablets and be in bed by 8:00.
One day Adam had said his good nights and went to bed, he wasn’t in bed more than a few minutes when his phone rang. Rodger a friend of his wanted to talk to him so I went to see if Adam was still awake. I knocked on his door and when he didn’t answer I walked on in. My brother was sound asleep on his back, the sheet pulled down low on his waist. I walked up to the bed to shake him and could see the head of his penis poking out from under the sheet. My brother had an erection. I had never seen a real penis before and here I was not a foot away. I could hear Rodger yelling. “Hey! Anyone there? Diane? Are you there?”