A Taste of Your Own Medicine
by Steven L. McKinley
July 1, 1995
It was Epiphany, January 6, 1994. A Thursday. A typical Minnesota winter morning with a little snow overnight.
Got up early. Cleaned off the driveway. Read the paper. Ate breakfast. Got dressed: put on "the blacks" for a funeral later in the morning. At 8:05 A.m. I said goodbye to my wife, Pat, who would be leaving for work a few minutes later.
The roads were a little snow-packed, but conditions were not extreme. A few minutes after I arrived in the office, I heard a siren that was headed back up the road I had just traveled. I had a funny feeling. Then the telephone rang.
"Is this Steve McKinley?"
"Yes."
"Your wife was just in an auto accident. She's banged up a bit, but all right."
I got the precise location of the accident and flew out the door. When I arrived at the scene, I instantly saw that the car was a mess. I was more concerned about Pat. I found her seated inside the paramedics' vehicle, bleeding nastily from the forehead.
Off to the hospital emergency room. The doctors stitched her forehead and splinted her broken arm. To our great relief, the injuries were not severe. (A follow-up visit the next week also revealed a broken foot.) In a couple of hours, I took Pat home and cleared my schedule for the rest of the day. I did make one trip to check out the car--totalled.
BECOMING THE "MINISTEREE"
Friday, the next day. Worked some in the morning. Home in the afternoon to look after Pat, and to take her to the dentist to check out a chipped tooth. Fixed dinner. Started to dish it out. Burning pain in the middle of my upper chest. I had felt the same pain a few times earlier in the week but not to this extent. It shot down my left arm. Could hardly lift the pan off the stove.
I'm human: I tried to deny what was happening but ...
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