On this week's episode of Army Wives, Claudia Joy ends up in the hospital after collapsing at home. Michael picks up Emmalin when she gets word about her mother. The test results show that Claudia Joy is suffering from kidney failure. It was certainly an unexpected diagnosis.

The doctor told the Holden family that Claudia Joy is in total kidney failure and that she will need a kidney transplant. In the meantime, Claudia Joy will need to have dialysis right away until they can find a donor. Right away, Emmalin wants to donate one of her kidneys to her mom. This is no surprise as that girl would do anything for her mother. It was a sweet gesture and cements their mother-daughter relationship. She was even googling all the information she could on dialysis.

Unfortunately, Emmalin was turned down by the doctor as he said that since her mother got diabetes later in her life, there is a good chance that Emmalin would also develop diabetes. He couldn't take that chance since she would need both of her kidneys. She was crushed that she was not able to help her mom.

As Denise happened to be walking by Claudia Joy's room, she finds her crying and goes in to comfort her. It was great to see these two friends reconnecting once again. Although it is not in the best of circumstances, sometimes a crisis is the one thing that brings relationships together. At least Jackie wasn't there to spoil things for these two best friends. Jackie was at a D.C. conference so Denise had no distractions. In fact, Denise decided that she wanted to be tested to see if she was a donor match to give Claudia Joy one of her kidneys. Frank wasn't too thrilled about the idea, however he told his wife that they would talk about it and go from there. When Jackie comes back into town, will she try to dissuade Denise from being a donor for Claudia Joy? Hopefully this lady won't be that mean.

Kellie Martin stars as Captain Galassini who starts a proposal to head up a mission to Africa after an uprising happens. This week also centered around the 30-minute DRB which means that troops can be sent out at a moment's notice without knowing when or where they would be headed. Gloria Cruz heads to the Hump bar to talk to Roxy about what is going on since they had to cancel their travel plans because of the DRB. Roxy gives this new wife some advice on things that she needs to get taken care of like a will and power of attorney while her husband is deployed. It looks like Roxy has come a long way in her role as an army wife.

Tanya has made a choice to take the place of a friend who was supposed to be in that group but she had no one to take care of her daughter while she would be gone. The word is that they will most likely not be called out anyway. However, after things get heated in Africa, everything changes.

As everyone is celebrating Finn's 10th birthday, Trevor gets the call that he is to be deployed right away. Also in that group is Frank, Kevin Clark, and Officer Cruz. The wives say goodbye to their husbands as none of them have any idea where they are flying off to. Denise and Frank always exchange their letters as Denise reads hers at home and Frank reads his as he is in the air. This has always been their tradition and it never gets old.

It looks like Claudia Joy is heading off to her parent's house to get away for a while. How will she handle the treatments and especially her best friend that wants to donate her kidney to her? Stay tuned for the next episode of Army Wives!

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