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Mon, 23 July 2012 15:24

artisticrainey
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Tracy Island, Sunday evening

A journal entry

[i]August 12

We are all finally all home and settling in again, but things will never go back to the way it was. And I don't know what to do about this empty space in my heart.

The farmhouse is gone.

The home where Grant and I spent our married life, and raised our son, the home that belonged to his parents, his grandparents, and great-grandparents --a tornado took it and left only bits and pieces. It was so hard to be there and see the aftermath.

I know I told John that I'd said goodbye to the place some time ago, and there was nothing left for me there, but seeing the place in that condition... there are no words. We brought back little -- a teddy bear, a leather jacket and hat -- also a cat and her kittens. I couldn't leave them behind. I don't know how they managed to survive the tornado that hit the place, although the barn they were in was mostly intact. I guess it's a miracle.

Tornadoes are unforgiving things. They also don't discriminate. My daughter-in-law is in the hospital because of them. My son is with her, and has been since he was able to get to her at the hospital in Los Angeles. Thank God she is recovering, but for a while we didn't know if she would. And the two nurses with her, they will be fine, too.

I'm so glad Lisa is here. And Maggie; it's good to be able to get to know some of Dianne's relatives better. I wish the circumstances were more pleasant, though.

That leads me to another worry. Poor Tyler, to have so many frightening things happening to people he cares about in his short life... He's feeling the effects of it all. And it seems that Jeff has decided to call in a counselor for him, a psychologist. In all my born days, I never thought any member of this family would need one. But, when I think about it, I suppose it was inevitable. With all the trauma the team encounters and endures, it was only a matter of time. And I can't fix everything.

I can't fix everything.

There! I've written it twice. I used to heal all those scrapes with Neosporin and a kiss, or a cold with medicine, or an upset stomach and so on, but I have to admit now that I can't heal everything they go through. I can only be there for them and love them, as I always have. And I know Jeff would tell me that it's enough. But I don't feel it is.

I'm getting old. But I refuse to become useless.

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