OTA Chapter: 6
Amy woke up and looked around she was not sure where she was. It did not at all looked familiar how had she gotten here?
Lou heard Amy moving around and walked into the room and said "Morning Amy" .
Amy stared at her, "who are you and where am I? What are you doing here" Amy said!
" Stop playing around Amy, you know you called me last night to come and get you." Said Lou as she smiled at her sister thinking it was nice to see she had sense of humor after last night.
"Get me from where?" Why would I call you I don't know you, how do you know my name!" Amy was becoming more distraught as she tried to figure out where she was and who this person was who had called her by name. She was coming up with blanks about everything.
"You don't remember last night? You called me to come and pick you up from Ahmed's home. I found you walking down the road and brought you home."
I don't remember anything if I remembered would I have asked? Amy was now almost at a point of panic she was being told of someone she did not know by someone she did not know. This woman had told her she had picked her up alongside a road yet she remembered none of it.
"There are a few things that we may need to talk about" Lou said.
"Why would I talk to you? I don't know you!" Amy was getting upset that this person kept wanting to talk about things that she could not remember!
"Try and get a little more rest; breakfast will be ready in a few minutes." Lou looked at her little sister and tried not to panic. I will call you when it is ready." Lou almost ran out of the room, Jack and Lisa had gone into town and would not be back for a while and she had no idea of where their father was so she called Sonya, and told her what had just transpired.
Sonya said that Amy may be suffering from something called, transient global amnesia . The mental stress and shock of the night before had caused her to shut out everything that she knew. "Try and keep her there still until I can get hold of the Dr. Murphy and see if he will come talk with her and give you a better diagnosis. I will be over as soon as I get dressed."
"Who was that", Ty asked as he walked out of his room?
"Lou, Amy does not seem to remember anything, who Lou is, or where she is at! I need to get over there now can you get dressed and drop me off?"
"I thought we had talked about this last night and decided that you would not help out!"
"We talked and I said I would back out of working with Amy if that is what you wanted, right now I need to be there for Lou more than Amy and maybe other members of the family as well. Please Ty this is what I feel I have to do. It is why I got my degree to be able to help people in need, and there is a very large need at Heartland at the moment. "
"OK, let me get dressed" he said as they both headed to their rooms to get dressed. On the trip to Heartland they talked about what this could all mean and Sonya tried to fill Ty in on what the possible causes could be.
"Most likely it is being caused by the shock of what the prince had done. That coupled with the many head injuries she has suffered over time could have and effect on this as well. It usually only lasts for a very short period of time and then the memories usually came back. Amy could be better by the time I get there or it could be a process and she would have to be helped before she would drop the barriers and face the world again. Right now she is blocking all the things that she does not want to face."
"That includes family" Ty asked? "That does not make any sense they love and support her above all else and that should be the one place and the people she feels most comfortable with."
"Yes that should be true but, the mind can do some strange things."
When they arrived at Heartland Dr. Murphy was arriving there as well.
They walked in and heard Amy was screaming at Lou demanding to know where she was! Lou said she was at her grandfathers home called Heartland. Amy said I don't know any Heartland I am leaving.
A"my please look at this before you go and tell me who this is?" Amy took a loot at the picture and stopped mid-sentence! "What is her name?" It was a picture of Amy with her mom and she had no idea of who this woman."
"I don't know and why should I care!"
"That is a picture or our Mother taken just before she died!"
Amy stopped and began the think and realized that she did not know anything about who she was or where she was from, nothing, it was all blank.
Dr. Murphy and the rest of the family had been outside of Amy's room listening. Dr. Murphy stepped into the room and introduced himself. He talked a little with Amy as she had settled down as she sat there staring at the picture trying to remember. She began to look around the room and saw pictures of her and other family members and several of a young man. Yet she did not remember any of them. After their talk Dr. Murphy gave her a sedative to try and help her relax.
'You should get her to a hospital, she may need 24 hour a day care till she is able to remember. The more stress she is under the longer it could take for her to begin to get her memories back."
"Can't she just say here asked Lou? I don't want to have her leave I just got her home!"
"She needs to be under care 24/7. "
"I will stay up round the clock it that is what it takes" said Lou
"Dr. Murphy if I stayed would you agree to Lou's request?"
"I guess that might make it better if I felt there was someone around to help out if needed. Here are some pills that should keep her sedated. Give her one every 4 hours and maybe in a day or two we can try and begin letting her come out from under the sedative and see if we can begin to talk with her. "
"You don't have to do that Sonya" said Lou.
"I know, but I feel your family may need me as well and you have so much on your plate already! Lou I want to be her, for you and the rest of the family as well" she said. This way she will not be going anywhere and I can help you watch her is that ok?
Ty looked at Sonya and said "you're sure about this? Remember what we talked about Amy does not know you and what happens if she all a sudden remembers. She will want to know who you are and will that make things any better? "
"I will be ok, and yes there is that possibility. I just feel that I may be the best suited for this right now. I am not staying just because of Amy she is really the least of my worries right now, Ty I can't leave Lou and the rest of the family. I will only stay till I feel they are alright."
"Can we go outside and talk for a minute" Ty asked Sonya?
"Sure lets go it is good time to just let the Dr. talk with the family ."
When they had gone outside Sonya walked over and sat on the bench on the front porch. As Ty looked at her a flood of memories came into mind. He could see Amy doing what Sonya had done walking outside and sitting on that same bench expecting him to just come over and sit down and talk! He had fought that from the beginning and usually ended up standing up and they would proceed to argue and then Amy would get up and walk back into the house. It seemed that nothing good had ever come from a woman sitting on the bench and him standing up talking so maybe it was time for him to change. He sat down next to Sonya.
"Go ahead tell me how this is wrong and that you don't want me to do it."
Ty thought for a minute and looked into Sonya's eyes and said "I am not sure what I want. Part of me agrees with your last statement. Yet there is a part of me that is not sure and that is what I want to talk about. You said you wanted to stay and make sure she gets her medicines and be there if she needed help that the family could not give her and until you feel the family is doing better as well. So does that mean you are going to stay here?"
"You heard Dr. Murphy he said she needed 24 hour attention. Lou could not do that alone and Jack and Lisa would help I am sure but what if they needed someone else that could take an hour or more to get someone here I would not want that for Amy and more so the family. So that would be the best thing, so yes I guess it does if they don't mind."
"You know how hard it was to be around this family was for me and how long you had to work on me to just get me to think about coming over to see my horse. I am happy you did, it all changed when Amy came home last night. I am back on the other side of the fence looking in and I do not want to be anywhere around while Amy is here. Besides I kept a secret from them and now it has come back to haunt me."
"And what secret is that" asked Sonya "and do I know this secret?"
Ty looked at her then his gaze fell to the old warn planks of the deck. "Well no it was not something that I figured really concerned me anymore. I saw Amy here a while back! She and Ahmed were driving down the road, Scott and I passed them on the way to a job. I saw Amy try and duck down when she saw that is was Scott. She did not see me and Scott did not see her so I just let it drop. Then later Lou said she had not heard from Amy in a while and I just figured it was not my place to say anything."
Sonya said "I wish you had told me but I don't tell you every time I see my ex so that is no big deal for me. As for the rest of them you, really are not expected to tell them everything you know about Amy."
"I know said Ty but they have always treated me as family so I feel bad. The second thing is I am not real happy having you spending time with Amy! I am just a friend and I never planned to be involved with them ever again now I am and I have come to see them as family, but I am not, and I am afraid of what your being her could do to that relationship!"
"What, afraid she is going to tell me some big dark secret" she said with a smile. Trying to lighten the mood as she could see just how serious Ty was about this. She seemed to be drawn to situations like this. Much like Ty had explained about Amy and horses. The more help the person needed seemed to draw her to them. It had been this way with Ty when they had first met. She had wanted to help him never, expecting to end up where she was now. She had broken the most basic rule as a counselor never get involved with your clients! Was she headed down that road again and if so would it come back to haunt her? Maybe but she felt it was something she needed to do.
Ty took this question as her being serious and looked at her and then stared off into the morning light as it highlighted mountains peaks. Was she right; was he afraid of something that might come out? He had been honest with Sonya but was there something that he was hiding not even knowing it himself. "I don't think so he said. It's just not a very comfortable thing for me. I guess I could say it would be like me inviting your ex over to watch a hockey game and then asked him to stay a few days."
Sonya understood but she was sure that Ty did. "I am not sure you understand my motivation."
As she started to talk Ty looked at her and said. "Yes I do, well as much as any man can understand how a woman thinks! I know how you seek challenges and the bigger the challenge the better, look at me could there have been more of a challenge than me? I have heard you talk work and seen how you were so thrilled when you were able to help them. This is different Sonya these are friends and you may jeopardize that friendship if it comes to a point where they are forced to choose Amy or you. We both know where that one will end"
She loved this about their relationship. And hoped that they would always have it! They were able to talk about anything and felt free to speak their mind knowing that the other would listen and not judge but try and understand the other's point of view. Not agree with it but understand. "Right now it is just something that I feel I have to do."
"Ok but do not expect me to part of it. I am going to stay as far away from here as I can. I feel as awkward being here as I did when we first broke up! You realize that this could possibly completely undo everything that you have tried to build with the family he reminded her again.?"
"Yes, I have thought about that and before I do anything I will sit down and talk with them. They also have to feel that I would do more good than harm and if they don't I will leave."
Ty and Sonya walked back into the house looked at the Bartlett, Fleming- Morris families and asked them what they thought about Sonya's suggestion. Sonya voiced Ty's concerns and said that this had to be completely up to them. They all agreed that maybe having someone not so involved might be better for now they also said it would be nice if that someone was somebody they knew. And they would enjoy having them both around.
Ty look at the family and told them that he would not be part of this. He was not comfortable right now being around Amy. Maybe after she was better, they could have a talk but not before. And he did not want to be the cause of her to thinking they had taken his side in the break up.
Sonya walked Ty out to his truck, told him how much she loved him and thanked him of allowing her to stay.
"If I put my foot down right now you mean you would come with me instead of staying here?"
"Yes, Ty I would, and if you feel that then tell me now! I don't want what happened with you allowing Amy to go to Europe to happen here!"
Ty nodded knowing that Sonya would not be doing this if she did not think she could help. He did not understand it but he believed in his wife to be, even if it meant spending time with his ex-fiancé. "We are not in the same spot in our relationship that Amy and I were, and you are just down the road not half way around the world."
To be continued: