TWO THANKSGIVINGS

Today is Thanksgiving 2007 . It has been a great one for me and my family. One Phone call of many today was one we had hoped to get before now. I had prayed it would come today and it did. It made my wife really happy as it was from one of her sisters who had not called or contacted her for a long time. If it makes my wife happy it makes all of us happy. It even inspired me to call my two sisters. I know for others calling someone on the phone is no big deal. Well for me it is a big deal. The only person I ever call is my mother but most of the time she calls me. My mother calls me every Sunday at 9;45 a.m. So I know it is her and will be sure to pick up the phone. I avoid talking on the phone whenever possible. Why? Whenever I answer the phone it always seemed it was really bad news. Even when my mother calls I like for my daughter or wife to answer first. Howevr they have been disappearing of late about 9:30 am every sunday morning. Just coincidence Right. Well even I can put 2and 2 together most of the time. [lol] I have to know a little about women. No brothers two sisters and a dad who was not around much and most times he was you did not want to be around him. Poor mom if I had not been the {baby] youngest things would have been better or so I like to think. Actually it probably would have made things worse. Back to Thanksgiving like I said today was one of our best.

Thanksgiving 2005- About all I can remember of it was feeling miserable and in a lot more pain than usual. I did not eat as much turkey or macaroni salad as usual or so my wife tells me and she claims she knew then something was wrong. She probably did because she can read me like an open book most of the time. She also knows that it only upsets me more when she asks If I am feeling okay. I toughed it out as long as I could as not to spoil Thanksgiving for the rest of the family. about 10:00 p.m I headed for bed thinking maybe some how I could get to sleep. Never happened finally about 2:30 I woke my wife up and told her I was going to emergency room. I was going to drive myself .No way was I going to pay for another ambulance ride. I knew what was the matter. The last time I had driven myself I could do it again. So what that I had had to pull over 3 times to puke. Of course my wife said no way you have a son that can drive you if you insist on no ambulance. He did and I made it all the way to St. Frances Hospital in Peoria before puking on the floor while trying to fill out the blasted admittance forms. For some reason they then decided they had all the information they needed.[lol] It turned out to be just what I knew it was kidney stones. But did they pay any attention to me no they decided I did not know what I was talking about. They treated me for a heart attack . Me protesting all the time. Finally I persuaded a nurse to check my records I had been in that very same er room two other times for guess what. Yes kidney stones! Of course by that time it was about 4 hours later and they had yet to give me anything to relieve the pain. It may have been longer cause I had actually blacked out from pain at least twice between pukings. I remember very little after that until they gave me a second dose of morphine. They did show me the two kidney stones I had passed and said as soon as we get your pain under control we will send you home to pass the rest of them. Yup that was [I hope] my worse thanksgiving ever.