Amy's 'momentary trouble'

You would have thought I’d have learned by now. It seems that each time I write about Amy having a good day, she gets a one-two punch and ends up having a string of several bad ones. Yesterday at about 3:00pm Amy called me at work. It was obvious that she was in a lot of pain as she told me that Trevor and Brittany were both gone to their sporting events and the two younger ones where down to the neighbor’s playing. She was all alone and wanted to know if I could come home right away. I told her that I was the only one watching the phones at the moment and that I would need to wait until someone came back before I could leave. Taking a quick look at everyone’s calendar, I saw that they were all in meetings until 4:00pm. I called Amy back and told her that it was going to be awhile and she told me ‘OK, I’ll try. Vince, the pain in my side is SO bad I can’t even stand to touch it or roll over onto my back.’ I told her I was sorry, that I loved her and that I had to go. About 15 min later I finally tracked someone down who could cover for me and headed out. When I arrived home, Amy was laying in bed on her right side. I asked her a few questions and she showed me where her pain was. I was really trying to get a grip on what was going on and what our next steps should be when she started having an episode. She would cry out in pain, writhe trying unsuccessfully to find a position that was comfortable or at least relieve her pain. She asked me to rub the spot on her side, but only let me for about 5 seconds because of the pain. She tried getting up and walking around, but that too provided no relief. All the while crying…sobbing uncontrollably…even that caused her pain. Finding no liberation to this pain, she cried out repeatedly to God for mercy. This lasted for 10 minutes. I placed a call to her oncologist and while we were waiting for the return call, another episode started. Brittany came home in the midst of this and she came right in and held her mothers hand. I sat there and watched Brittany watch her mother thrash about in pain and it wasn’t long before tears were streaming down Brittany’s face; the sorrow clearly etched on her face. I decided we weren’t going to wait any longer and I took Amy up to the ER. After being poked and prodded, they took Amy to have a CT Scan done on her kidneys and not too longer afterward a warning went out over the PA system announcing that a tornado warning was in effect and the staff were to move all patients to the basement. Amy slept most of this time away as I either played our portable Yahtzee or watched the other patients. At 9:15pm, they announced that the warning had passed and the patients could be returned to their rooms. Just after they got Amy back into her room, her doctor came in and told us that Amy has kidney stones and that this was the cause of her pain. We left home around 4:15pm and returned about 10pm. Today Amy got a call from the clinic telling her that she’s got a stone 9mm in diameter and that she’ll have to see an urologist about getting it removed. I told Amy that I wished the ER had a frequent visitor’s card and that maybe on the tenth visit we’d have enough punches for a free trip through the cafeteria.

I truly thank God that this was all it was.

This is Amy's story as seen and told by me – V