Lee and I and our children finally arrived in Lawton, Oklahoma in mid afternoon. Fort Sill is located here. Lee had been given the name of a couple who were our "sponsors". New officers were given sponsors to show them around the post, and help them out finding a house or apartment. It was a young couple who were both in the Army. They had met in Viet Nam and had kind of a whirlwind courtship. They married after a very short time, unfortunately their marriage did not survive very long after they returned to the States. It seems he didn't bother to tell her he had 2 sons and an ex wife, none of which she knew when she married him.
They were good to us and showed us the ropes and introduced us to the other male nurses and their families. Actually, there was a fairly large contingent stationed at Ft Sill, 14 male nurses and their families. They welcomed us with open arms and we immediately were brought into the fold.
The night that we arrived at Ft Sill Lee was still experiencing severe pain and we took another trip to the Army Hospital. Again the physician gave him morphine and we returned to our room at the Officer's Club. It was the next afternoon before the kidney stone finally passed which alleviated Lee's pain and was one less problem to deal with. Over the past 50 years of our life together I think it would be accurate too say that Lee has passed at least 17 or 18 kidney stones. They seem to be a scourge in his family as his mother and 3 brothers have all experienced them. Lee had a 4 year hiatus from the stones when he was stationed in Heidelberg, Germany. The reason, we hypothesize is that we all drank bottled water the entire time we lived there which had been recommended to us.
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