" Best Laid Plans" Part Three "The Mystery"

In the last episode of "Best Laid Plans " we found Jake at home with a supposed case of Celliuitis. In today's episode we had a surprise twist.


After Wednesday night's phone call from Diana's house cleaning employer, she went to bed wondering why this had happened. When she woke Thursday she once again found herself believing that everything happens for a reason.


Why did she know this now. This early Thursday morning half asleep and feeling that something was not quite right ? It didn't take long to find out. Despite the I.V. antibiotics that her husband had received the previous day , he now could not walk on his own. His pain had clearly intensified as he tried to walk to another room. Diana had to help hold him up. The rash on his leg had gotten much worse and had red streaks running up the back of his thighs.


After a short conversation in which she stressed the fact that in no way would she be able to carry him from room to room , it was then decided to take a trip back to........





The E.R. !


After seven hours of different opinions , more antibiotics , and even a personal visit from their own family doctor, it was decided that Jake would now be admitted into.......






The hospital !


In the meantime Diana almost ran her head into a brick wall trying to make her young teen , Katie ,understand why she could not have a friend spend the night on Friday .







All the while poor Katie is walking around and around in circles .
Very confused . For some strange reason , every now and then she stops and stares at the microwave oven for several minutes tilting her head from side to side .
When the words " pot" or "pan" is used she runs , screaming into another room .







Diana did a selfish thing today . She kept her appointment with the orthopedist . She left her husband alone in the hospital . What sort of woman does such a thing ?


She threw caution to the wind and raced to her appointment . She felt guilty for leaving her husband all alone . Yet she felt excited about the prospect of possibly being pain free for six months .
There was also another feeling that she was having.
Fear .
Fear of the inevitable pain that she was going to experience from this selfish act .
She was getting two shots today . Cortisone and Synvisc .





When her handsome young doctor entered the exam room she said to him , " I have a 2001 Kentucky state quarter that I will give you if you don't hurt me. "
The doctor laughed . The doctor administered the shots after numbing the area .
Diana bent over in pain as tears welled in her eyes.
The handsome young doctor then said " I guess I'm not getting the quarter. " Diana weakly replied " No." , as she slid the 2001 Kentucky state quarter back into her pocket.
He apologized .
She forgave him .


Will Jake's mysterious aliment
be diagnosed properly before Monday ?


Will Katie's odd obsession with staring at the microwave oven
continue ?


And what about Diana's guilt ridden trip to the handsome,
young orthopedic doctor ?


Yes , what about that ?


Stayed tuned to the next episode of

" Best Laid Plans "