As many of you know who attended the last day of the 2017 SDC National Meet, a kidney stone of which I was unaware, and never having had one, decided about 3:30 AM early Saturday morning, May 6th, to break loose and begin what has got to be the most painful experience I've ever had. Ted Harbit and I were rooming together at Comfort Suites on Kern Road and old 31. After 40 minutes of stumbling around the room in excruciating pain and being careful to not step on Superman's cape...oops, I mean wake Ted...I realized this was not indigestion and I had better call an ambulance. 'Thought maybe my appendix had burst. Got dressed, left Ted a note as to why I was not in the room when he awoke, and went down to the empty lobby. The night desk clerk, as is typical at that facility, couldn't have been nicer and had South Bend's Finest pull up in an ambulance post haste. Off to Memorial Hospital ER downtown.
Ted got up later, read my note, and checked out. He then had breakfast (oops; he didn't; see Post #30!) at the Comfort Suites freebie/included breakfast "buffet" and brought everyone up to speed as to where I was...or wasn't, as was the case.
While there in ER waiting to be discharged with several Rx prescriptions and instructions to not drive anything that day, Jim Turner called to offer help. Tom Lawlis, another Indy Chapter SDCer, called to volunteer to retrieve me once discharged.
Tom picked me up and we went right to the fairgrounds, stopping to get some prescriptions filled on the way. By the time we arrived at the fairgrounds, Ted, cousin George Krem, George's wife Ludene, and Nelson Bove had all devised a plan to get my trailer hooked up to my truck and The Stude Tomato loaded on it for its trip back to Ted's. George and Ludene were going to follow Ted home to visit a couple days anyway to get The Plain Brown Wrapper ready for summertime. (It currently "lives" at Ted's.) George would drive my truck and loaded [with The Stude Tomato] trailer. Ludene would follow in their new Focus.
George called about 7:30 Saturday evening to say everything was safely back at Ted's...about the time Richard Poe called to check in and Howe and Charlotte Clark stopped at the house to see if Cari wanted to sell any of my cars yet. Hmmm....
Earlier in the day, having picked me up at the ER about 9 AM Saturday morning, Tom Lawlis said he had taken all the photos he wanted the previous day and was inclined to head for home, just a few miles from our house, and would I like a ride home? Boy, was I glad to have that offer! Since all the logistics were in place to get everything back home from South Bend, I took Tom up on his offer and was home in Brownsburg in bed at 2:00 PM Saturday afternoon. John Kern also stepped up at the fairgrounds to offer help.
'Hated to miss the 2017 SDC Car Show with the new format, but I could barely move and really wanted to go home. The ER doctor said it was a small stone and was far enough down that we should wait and let it pass naturally
, which she expected it to do presently. It's still there at 8:00 PM Saturday evening 
, so I'm hoping it passes soon. It's still pretty painful.'Times like these, a fellow is genuinely humbled by the goodness of SDC friends, so I want to publicly thank them for stepping up Saturday and getting everything taken care of that I was suddenly unable to do. It is truly humbling.
Thanks so very much to all.
BP
We've got to quit saying, 
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