A little story, part 2

Not long after the Big Brother stopped playing with the boy a lot of trouble started rolling down the hill to find the boy.

When it came to home, the boy had a pretty regular if not storybook family and home life. Mom and Dad loved them both, and gave them everything they could afford on their meager salary. They didn’t want for much.

School on the other hand was an entirely different matter all together. The boy had been in special education since the very first grade. That was a recommendation from his therapists that he had been seeing since the age of three. When the boy was still a baby in diapers and Mom had not Found Dad yet, Mom had a boyfriend named Richard. One day while Mom was at work, Richard had to change the boy’s diaper. Richard was a strong man, and when he pulled the boys leg up to put the new diaper under the boy, he accidentally broke the boy’s leg.

That would not have been that bad, but then he didn’t tell anyone about it and a week went by before the mother noticed that anything was wrong. The Doctors were very angry with her and threatened to take the boy away from her for being a bad mother. Needless to say, Richard was no more after that…

But the long term repercussions of that event haunted the boy until he was a middle aged man. Everything that went wrong with his life seemed to start with that one act.

Now back to the story at hand… When the boy found himself alone and without a friend to keep him company he started to misbehave, as boys often do. He started getting into fights at school, and breaking into peoples houses. He even got assault charges filed against him. His Mom and Dad didn’t know what to do with him any more and so they took him to a new Doctor. This new Doctor said that the boy should try a little inpatient care.

He explained that there was a hospital that the boy could put himself into to get the help he needed. This hospital was a voluntary place and the boy would only be there for two weeks. He made it sound like a little vacation, and so the boy and his parents decided that it would be best for all of them if they did this. Little did they know that the name of the hospital was Ft. Logan Mental Institution and that the two week stay was only the evaluation period.

The Boy ended up staying there for 8 months, one of those 238 days was the boys 12^th birthday. The boy didn’t feel quite at home in his home again for a very long time.