EDIE (4)

    After nine months, Edie got to go home to her mother's farm, not her cute little house with the new living room curtains and the kitchen table where the neighbors sit and had coffee and gab in the morning. An ambulance took Edie to her mother's and while she was lying on the cot looking out the window, she wondered what she would do. Her husband couldn't handle everything that had happened and wanted a divorce. She din't want to live with her mother because her brother and wife and four kids also lived at the farm. And what a noisy bunch. Well, the main thing now was that Susan and I will have a roof over our heads, she thought. I can't wait to see my little girl, Susan, she told the nurse that was with her. She told her about Susan's experience seeing her in the hospital and how afraid she was of her the way she looked with no hair and scratches all over her face and even worse no legs. What a shock to a little child. Susan was living with her grandmother at the farm and called her mommy. Tears welled up in Edie's eyes. Did Susan forget her completely? The nurse comforted her and told her she would remember again that children spring back. And all along she hoped what she was saying to Edie would come true.