Wednesday Evening, August 22nd

For the best part everything is OK.

I'm sitting at my desk this morning when I hear the phone ring, Sabrina our assistant no sooner answers it then I see the panic on her face and I know something is wrong. I grab the phone and it's Nancy, Somethings wrong with Allie, she cant move her left arm and her left eye and lip is drooping. Within two seconds I'm in the truck driveing life a mad man beeping and blinking my headlights all the way up the mountain, My mind is racing Holy Shit what's going on. I call on the cell phone and tell Nancy to call Dr. Toma and Dr. Gardner right away. A few seconds later she calls back. Dr. Toma wants her to call 911 and get her to the local hospital stat. Oh, my God! We both agree we are going back to Greenville where they know her and we are confident and comfortable. I got to the house in no time flat and Allie is not looking good, we get her in the Pilot and dash off not waiting for an ambulance. On the way Nancy tells me that Allie got up at 7:30 and aroung 9 after her shower, she comes into the room holding a towel and tells her in slurred speech that her arm is not working and she can't feel it. No time to waste. As I race out of the subdivision we call 911 and tell them what is going on and ask if they can take her by ambulance to Greenville, they can not so I just continue driveing with Allie scream she is in pain and my heart in my chest. As we continue to drive we call Greenville 911 and ask to have an ambulance meet us and after some confusion we meet up, put Allie in the ambulance to stabalize her and head off again. Now I'm alone in the car and Nancy is in the ambulance and as I once again call the Ronald McDonald house the tears start to flow. Deep down I know everything is going to be OK but in the moment with Allie in the ambulance basically paralyzed on the left side my mind starts to wander until I get it under control. Why is the ambulance driver going so slow I screamed to myself. About that time the phone rang - it was Nancy, everything seemed OK.

At the hospital, the ER doctor examined her and got her sent off for a cat scan, about this time Allie seemed to be back to normal, her eyes were OK, her smile was even and she seemed to be able to use her left arm again, A wave of it's going to be OK came over all of us. The Cat scan was good, no damage or anything to worry about there. Allie was really hungry and it was after lunch time so they let us walk to the cafateria while they got her room ready. nancy and Allie got Subway and I went into the cafateria. As soon as I got on line my phone rang, it was Nancy and she was breaking up bad, all I heard was we are going back to the ER, I left my tray on the line and ran back to the ER to find Allie had relapsed and was not able to use the left side again and it seemed to be worse, my heart sank and Nance was a mess. All in all Allie seemed to have taken a big step backwards and it looked bad to us but we tried not to look how we felt.

After a battery of test, doctors and the likes it appears that Allie had something called a Todd siezure which will go away after 24 hours or so but to be on the safe side they will be doing a MRI/MRA tomorrow sometime. It seems that at worse she may need to take iezure medication and at best it was a one time occurance and will never happen again. That's tonights news.

Allie is as tired as can be and I will be spending the night in her room. I got Nancy an hotel nearby so she can get some good rest, she is exhausted and it will be the best thing for her.

This is for a reason, for all of us - don;t know why, don;t care. As mother Theresa said, I just wish he didn;t trust us so much.

Stay positive - Full Recovery - Never a Doubt

Love and Recovery
Allie's Dad