Family Update

We are still trying to get our minds around what happened in our fire. This is a true test for me, I must Admit!

1. My skin grafts are healing but are painful as they need constant stretching to avoid further surgery. In a few days I will receive the prescription and more permanent hand and left arm sleeve that will need to be worn for a year only to be taken off for 1 hour of the 24 each day. The sleeve I have is almost intolerable at times, so the tighter prescription with take some getting used to.

I do have pain but am handling it when I can without pain meds.

I and Michelle still wrestle with trying to get our minds around what has happened. Our home is a gutted shell. It is even hard to believe that it is our home. What a mess, and what a tragedy. Michelle thought I died in the fire when the garage roof cave in. What a horrible thing to think and try to handle.

I find it hard to accept that I could not put the fire out myself. It went so fast. I cannot get the pictures of the fire out of my mind. Sometimes I feel traumatised by it all. While we lost all of our furniture and most of our belongings I still wish I would wake up from the nightmare. It's not the loss that bothers me, it's my inability to put the fire out. Had I stayed in the garage fighting the fire I would be dead because in seconds the garage collapsed, but I keep thinking I must have done something more..

ARE THERE ANY OTHERS FIRE VICTIMS WHO CAN SHARE WITH ME?