Wake Up Call

Monday morning around 7 am I woke up to the friendly tune of "Country Roads" by John Denver.  No, I don't have one of those fancy alarm clocks that sing you awake, that is the ring tone I have set for my younger brother John.  I have to admit my first thought was, "Oh crap he wrecked my car".  However, I was pleasantly surprised to hear a calm, somewhat cheerful John on the line apologizing for calling so early. He hadn't wrecked the car, but he was at the hospital and the cheerful tone was due to the IV pain killers that he had just received for kidney stones! After I got the scoop and he assured me he was going to be ok, I made arrangements with work and headed down to Provo to pick him up.  We spent the rest of the day hanging around my house and laughing at his drugged state.  Unfortunately for John, it took most of the rest of the week for the pain to go away, but we enjoyed getting to spend the down time with him and watching him carefully ration his remaining pain pills for the "other" stone the doctor spotted on it's way! He's not so excited that he has entered the "kidney stone phase of his life" but we are glad it wasn't something more serious!