More Trouble on the Road

When the phone rang at 8 AM this morning while I was exercising, I knew someone was probably in trouble. This morning’s call from my daughter was to tell me she was beginning to feel better, but that the bottle of Cipro had been ruined because of a freak storm that left inches of water in their tent. Unfortunately she had not secured the bottle top after her bedtime dose. Only one pill survived intact and that was just enough for the morning.

She was terrified during the night when the storm came up suddenly as they camped amid the South Dakota corn fields, bringing with it a free sound and light show. She could clearly see the lightning through the tent. Her worries alternated between the tent being totally blown off of them and their being struck by lightning. At one point she absolutely had to go outside in the storm to find a bathroom (or whatever one uses at a campsite).

This morning I started to appreciate the power of cell phones and the Internet. Within minutes I had Googled “pharmacy Sioux Falls” to find a drug store reasonably close to the campsite where my daughter and her friend had spent the night. Then I called Deborah to plead for yet another round of her doctorly help. She very willingly called in a prescription for 7 more Cipro pills to the Sioux Falls Walgreens. I called my daughter on her cell phone, which fortunately had not been damaged by the flood, to let her know where to go pick up the prescription.

It’s probably a good thing the tent is the smallest size Target sells, so not a lot of damage was done to anything other than the Cipro bottle. By now, she has her new supply of meds and I’m sure the damp things have begun to dry out.

The flowers I took Deborah yesterday can never begin to thank her for bailing us out not once but twice. She jokingly said, “It’s the least I could do for making you sit through that awful movie last night” (Kontroll – which was pretty bad).

So life is good once again in South Dakota where my daughter is on the mend and has enough pills to make sure she will be just fine in a few days.

I’m somewhat reluctant to pick up the phone if it rings tomorrow. Maybe I will just let my husband be on phone duty since he is coming back from Detroit today. I never got around to my sit-ups today, but I made up for it with mental exercise. Now I need a nap!