Cheating the Cycle of Life- A Padded Pony Collab

Silver Spoon was not enjoying her stay in the hospital at all. She missed hanging out with Diamond Tiara, paling around, and relentlessly teasing their favorite trio of blank flanks. In fact, just prior to her trip to the hospital, Silver Spoon had been talking with Diamond Tiara about potentially stealing the Cutie Mark Crusaders capes, and ripping them up.

But now, she was confined to a hospital bed, unable to move. The doctors had told her that as a result of her surgery, using the bathroom would be really difficult. And so, against Silver Spoon’s wishes, they had diapered her, and put Nurse Redheart on changing duty.

“Why do these things always happen to me?” Silver Spoon thought unhappily to herself, as she poked at her medical diaper with a hoof. The diaper responded by giving off a light crinkle that punctuated the silence, that was only broken by the occasional beeping of the various machines.

Suddenly, the door to Silver Spoon’s room was open, bathing the bed in light from the hallway. In came Nurse Redheart, wheeling a cart, and carrying a sack of medical diapers and changing supplies in a saddle bag. “Hello Silver Spoon.” she called sweetly “How’s my favorite little filly doing?”

“Fine, I guess.” Silver Spoon sighed, turning her head away from Nurse Redheart “Aside from being confined to this bed, and being expected to use diapers like some not potty trained two year old!”

“Silver Spoon, we’ve been over this several times already.” Nurse Redheart scolded “That accident you were in badly damaged a lot of your muscles. The doctors were able to repair the damage, but you have to give your body time to rest and adjust to the changes. If you try to do too much at once, you’ll reopen the wounds.”

“It wasn’t my fault, that stupid carriage driver wasn’t watching where he was going!” Silver Spoon complained “Why should I be made to suffer like this?”

“You should be thankful you weren’t hurt worse than you already were.” Nurse Redheart said crossly, as she forced Silver Spoon to look her in the eye “There are many patients in this hospital that are far worse off than you, so stop complaining!”

“I will complain whenever I feel like it! You can’t tell me otherwise!” Silver Spoon replied.

“Fine then, I guess you don’t want any dessert with your meal!” Nurse Redheart tisked, as she checked Silver Spoon’s diaper and found it clean.

The mentioning of dessert got Silver Spoon to change her tone really fast. “What do you mean?” she asked Nurse Redheart.

“Well, the doctors want you sticking to a specific diet for a little while. That way, you won’t overtax your system.” Nurse Redheart explained “But if you behave yourself, I might be able to convince them to let you have a small something extra with your next meal.”

“Then what are you doing standing around here for? Go talk to them already!” Silver Spoon ordered “Hospital food tastes really bad!”

“I said, only if you behave yourself.” Nurse Redheart replied seriously “That means, no complaining about your condition, no tampering with your diapers, and treating me and the rest of the hospital staff with respect.”

“But that’s not fair!” Silver Spoon complained “You can’t expect me to do all of that!”

“Fine then, no dessert for you.” Nurse Redheart scolded, and turned to leave.

Before Nurse Redheart could leave the room, however, Silver Spoon reluctantly swallowed her pride and said “Okay, okay, I’ll start being nice if that’s what you want.”

Nurse Redheart smiled “See, now was that so hard? I don’t think so.”

“Can you do me a favor though?” Silver Spoon asked Nurse Redheart. Nurse Redheart nodded “Can you change me, please?” she said nervously, blushing in embarrassment.

Nurse Redheart looked at Silver Spoon’s diaper, and when she pressed a hoof to it she felt it give off a familiar squishy movement. But she wasn’t bothered at all, she simply put a clothespin over her nose, and set to work.