Patricia Guinn McKool ~~ With You

On December 15, 1973 At 6:29 PM, on a frigid U.S. Air Force Base in Utah, a scared 20 year old young woman and her (equally scared) 21 year old husband, after enduring 26 hours of labor, brought a new 6.6 pound life into this world. That just delviered baby boy would start life with a few obstacles and spent several days in Intensive Care while his liver formed…

These days that have run together and formed a jagged rip into what I thought was sanity that are running mercilessly together... The hours glaring hard into my being as they pass me by, knowing that I am growing weaker and loosing sight of any glimmer of what I used to think was hope. My soul, my inner self, the place I never knew I could experience such emotion, has been plunged into a place, if you can call it that, that I never knew existed. A place that, honestly, no human being should…