ER

This morning I woke up and looked out my window to see one of the fire department's ambulances parked right outside. I looked a bit further to the left and there was also a firetruck! Needless to say I jumped out the bed and sprinted to the door, I couldn't smell any smoke or see any fire but if that's what was going down then I needed to know so I could start grabbing stuff to run.

I burst out the front door in my boy shorts and a tank top, hair all wild to see no smoke, no fire and no one running around evacuating people. By this time J was on my heels so I ducked back inside to put on a pair of shorts and a sweater. When I went back out I went to stand beside J on the stair case and my heart caught in my throat because they were taking a stretcher in my next door neighbor's house. And this isn't a situation where we don't even know the person, as happens alot here in the states I gather. We're friends with Nate and Jamie, he helps J work on cars and she and I are always chatting about the latest Frederick's of Hollywood or Victoria's Secret catalogue and exchanging recipes. So I didn't know what to do with myself and just stood there hugging J real tight till they wheeled the stretcher back out.

I was happy to see that she was sitting upright and obviously breathing and not bleeding but at the same time the whole scene was very unnerving. J and I went upstairs and changed and met them at Schumpert with an apple for Nate because I knew he wouldn't have stopped to eat. Turns out that based on her symptoms she has a kidney stone. Very, very painful. I felt so helpless sitting there with them in the ER because she was in so much pain and there was nothing I could do.

When the released her J and I went and got Subway for the three of us and Koolaid for Jamie and went and hung out in there apartment. Later on the rest of the guys that we hang out with showed up and we all ended up piling the bar-b-q grill into Pam's boyfriend's truck and taking it over to the boat launch to chill out. We had a great old time, especially since another local car group was having their meeting there and were in complete shock that we'd set up our bar-b-q section LOL Later on we went and took pictures of all the cars at the Isle of Capri casino nearby, since Pam now has her Fairlady Z back from the shop. Jamie's doing better as well, her pain medication is really good but the thing is that the stones can come back at anytime without warning and they're really really painful :-(

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