Chapter 4 Will had been wrestling with headaches for the past three months he at first thought that they were just stress headaches because he had been working on quite a few big projects but today it was very different. He was having one of the worst headaches yet and he had gotten almost 20 minuets of work done and it was 10 AM usually he had eight projects ready for Sonny to check out for him to give presentations at the next weekly meeting for approval but today he had to break down and call his doctor again and get an appointment set up for as soon as possible today and he told them of the blinding headache he has been having all day long and that it is getting worse by the second and they looked and asked if he could be there in 45 minuets and he said yes that he had no choice. Mr Horton Please do not drive make sure that you have some one else to drive for you. Will got up holding on to the wall until he came to Sonny's office and he knocked on his door and Sonny said come in. Typically Will did not bother Sonny at work and when Will opened the door Sonny said well hello beautiful what brings you out of the bullpen? Honey are you really busy today? Well not really why Babe do you need something? I was just wondering if you do something for me. Babe are you OK? Not really Honey and that is why I am here. Will Babe sit down please and tell me what you need and I will do it are you not feeling well because you look really pale. Honey I have a doctors appointment in 45 minuets and I need someone to drive me today I have not got 20 minuets of work done today and my head hurts so bad that I can barley see do you have time to take med or if not I will just call cab either way it will be OK. Can you give me five minuets to get everything ready and we can go then. I knew that you were having headaches but I just thought that they were coming from stress I get them at times myself but Babe why haven't you told me before now. Honey I went to the doctor he said it was migraines and also stress and I just thought it made sense but now I can barley see I had to hold on to the wall just to get here and this is the only time it was this bad. Sonny grabbed his keys and phone and asked Will if he was OK enough to walk and Will said only if you help me not hit things. OK Babe but if you need me to carry you tell me and I will.] I guess that is why we have been riding together and you have not been driving right? Yes Honey it is I am not about to drive when I know that I am not fit to be behind the wheel of a car. Sonny walked over to Will and took his hand and he noticed that Will was trembling a bit but he did not point it out he just wrapped his arms around Will and said I love you Babe and I am here for you always. Will said I love you too and with just that embrace and those three words Will had stopped trembling and he knew that he would be fine. Ten minuets latter they were in the parking lot of the office building Sonny looked over at Will and his color was a bit better and he asked Will if he was feeling any better and Will said yes a little bit but I still cant see very well so you are going to have to check me in. OK Babe I will do that do you want me to go back with you? No Honey I will be fine they can help me while I am back there. Are you sure Babe? Yes I will be OK. I will let you know what they say. OK Babe I love you and if you need anything please let me know I will be right out here. I will walk you to the door and then I will wait. OK Honey and I am sorry that I had to stop what you were doing for this. Babe do bot ever and I mean ever apologize for something that you have no control of. You needed my help more than lace needed me and you will always come first. Hello Mr Horton well you are back because of the headaches are getting worse and they are blinding headaches? Mr Horton I am going to give you a prescription for anxiety medication and some Oxycontin for the pain only take them as needed and I am going to give you a couple of injections a steroid pain medication in the artery of your neck and some steroids and pain medication and I am going to see if tomorrow Dr Taruson can see you he is an eye specialist because you may just need glasses but we don't know yet and I am going to do a scan real fast of your neck and head to see if there is anything on my side that I should do. Since you have been having these headaches for so long I am also going to call him right now and get him to see you right now so that you can get him to examine your eyes and we will call you with the results, Will please try to rest and take a few days off to see if that helps. While you are here I am going to take some blood and send it to a couple of labs to be on the safe side I understand.. OK Doc send in the Vampires. Will you are one of my favorite patients you are such a funny person even when your head hurts like crazy. I learned a long time ago Doc that laughter is the best medicine. Plus a smile looks allot better on a persons face than a frown. That is a very good out look however please take your heath very seriously Doc I am and I do I have allot riding on me to be here and to be healthy. You are a very good man William Horton. Thank you Sir. Will walked out of the office 5 vials of blood lighter and a pretty large dose of Oxycontin his system still in some pain but a little wobbly. Sonny was watching the door and he saw Will some out and Will stumbled a very little bit but Sonny jetted over to make sure that Will was OK and Will said I just need to get home I will talk toy you along the way. OK Babe. Are you OK enough to walk by yourself? Oh I can walk but standing and walking at the sometime might be a little task. Sonny saw gauze on each side of Wills neck and each arm so he was kind of thinking that they might have given him some strong pain medication. Oh Son before I forget I needs these filled please. Will I need to talk to you about something. OK as soon as I am sitting so I can think. Sonny helped Will to the car and Will sat down and buckled up Sonny said can you remember what the doctor said? Yup I sure can. Well would you tell me please? First off for me to take it easy for a while and for me not to get too stressed out. So he wants you to take some time off from work for a while. He did not tell me that but I am going to work from the house for a while. He gave me some pain medication and a shot of steroids hence my stylish bandages on my neck because he put it straight into the artery. Then he let me go as always they took lab work and that was it. So basically he has no idea? Yup We are no closer to knowing that we were the first time that I went. Sonny looked at the prescriptions and he said Babe I hate to do this to you gut I am not going to allow you to work at all even at home. Will said it is going to be fine hon I can do my job. He said Will this is Oxycontin it is not only a narcotic but the strongest pain pills next to morphine that they have on the market and I can not allow you to try to make any rational business dealings while you are taking this. Will started to cry and said damn it! Sonny said Babe I am sorry I just want you to be safe and for you to not do something to screw up your division. Sonny you don't understand I am not upset with you but with myself. I just can not understand what is going on and because of this I can not do what I do best and I just don't know how to feel about it I have so many emotions right now I am willing to work from home but to not work at all after working since I was 17 years old then going to college for4 years running my own business partnering up with you and building up Leather from the its conception and now I cant even work leather and lace or the ad and marketing. I don't know what to feel or even what to do I am William Horton The man that puts the faces to the house of Lace and now I am William Horton nobody. I am not feeling sorry for myself but I just don't know exactly what to do now. I am sorry I was just venting as I said I am not angry and I can not blame you we have a very successful business and I am not going to jeopardize anything that we have worked so hard on to build up. Babe I know that you were just venting and you have every right to vent and it is OK to talk to me and tell me what you feel that is what I am here for and I love you so much but if you kept it all bottled up then I would worry. Will right now you are going through hell with all of these unknowns and then you in a sense had you job robbed from you on top of that you have so much pain you have to vent somewhere and why not vent to the one person who loves you with all of their hart and who is here to support you no matter what? Will sighed and said I am sorry but I am going to do one last thing in the office and then I am going to go lay down for a while don't worry about dinner for me just grab you something and right now as I said I just have to figure somethings out. Sonny felt almost as helpless as Will dose and it kills him to see Ll going through so much and there is nothing that he can do but si9t back and watch and not be able to do a thing. Wills phone rang while he was in the office and it was the eye doctors office and they told him that they had found some findings that he need to speak with them about and asked if he could come in tomorrow to speak to them about it and Will said well My partner dose not get off of work until after 6 tomorrow is one of his long days can we just discuss it over the phone please. The nurse asked the doctor and the doctor said yes but I do want to see you next week no exceptions OK? Will your optic nerve is deteriorating and that is why you are having the headaches. Will there is no medication that we can give you to prevent you from going totally blind but I do want to talk about treatment options as other alternative steps that we can take but the bottom line is that you you are going to be going blind. Will the pain stop then? Yes it will stop then and Will said OK tell me how long will it be before I lose my site all together? Will you could lose it in a month up to six weeks and you know that time to be exact? Yes Will I am surprised that it has not already happened by now because when you come in next week you can see exactly what I am talking about. May I ask for a copy of the films as well as the diagnosis and the treatment plan so I can show my partner exactly what is going on? I do not want him left in the dark about anything. Oh and I would like you to have available a list to get the tools that I can use to write notes to Sonny and also I need to place orders for 5 complete computers set ups for work my office as well as three wireless printers and set me up appointments to learn braille and to help me to do the counting of foot steps to get around at work and at home. Will? We will do that and your partner may have help you at work. That is no problem at all. Please excuse me but I have to make some phone calls. Right away and thank you for talking to me and for working with me on this I actually feel better now at least I know why everything is going on like this.