Nancy and I had been looking forward to attending a University of Wyoming football game this fall and the recent CowboyFresno State game looked ideal.
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Nancy and I had been looking forward to attending a University of Wyoming football game this fall and the recent CowboyFresno State game looked ideal.
Several days ahead of time, the forecast was good. I was not paying much attention to weather or roads.
Plus, we were taking our three local grandsons to the game, Wolf, Hayden and Finis Johnson, sons of our daughter Shelli Johnson and her husband Jerry.
Shelli and Jerry were in California celebrating their 25th wedding anniversary by attending a hilarious performance by the comic Brian Regan.
After a fun week of taking care of the boys, we went to bed Friday night planning to get up early and head to Laramie.
At 5:30 a.m. Nancy woke me up. She is prone to migraine headaches but this one was different, she said. Her pain was excruciating. Was she having a stroke? When it comes to health, I generally over-react.
I gave her one of her ordinary migraine Sumatriptan pills but it seemed to have little effect. We quickly got dressed and I gave the boys the bad news. We probably were not going to the football game as I was taking “mom-mom,” as they know her, to the emergency room.
When I went back to the bedroom to fetch her, Nancy was making the bed. “Well, you know, I want the house to look nice,” she told me through half-closed eyes.
It was a beautiful morning as we headed up to the hospital.