No Heartache Tonight
From 5 years ago--Thank the Lord my Girl is still out performing me at every measure). I'm thankful that my wife is not having to use the phone to call the kids. The night before Halloween, she had asked me to call the kids. I refused, and told her that we would call the kids later-there were other priorities at the time. I had just returned home from two weeks out of town, and when she picked me up she told me she had been having some chest pains. When we went to bed, she began having chest pains in earnest. So in earnest, and I mean ‘my one eyed granddad taught me how to drive it like I stole it’ earnest, I drove her to the emergency room. The chest pains intensified, and eventually my wife was in tears due to the pain. Through her tears and shortness of breath, she stated that she needed to talk to the kids. “Negative, Ghost Rider”, I replied. “You can call kids later, let's get you fixed first.” You see, my best girl was in the middle of having a heart attack. It would late...