D and MLC

[ciluzen]

Wow. What a whirlwind of emotion and (non) activity, at least from my end, this week. Thank you for the prayers and good thoughts. I believe it helped!

MIL was found about 5 miles from her home, sleeping under a tree in an orchard. A VAST orchard. Luckily, it was in an area of trees that seemed "stressed", so even though the water was turned off to that area off trees, two workers were sent out that day to turn it on TO THAT AREA ONLY on that day and thats how they found her. Talk about luck. They also had seen the flyers put out by the massive search effort of the community and knew they needed to call for help IMMEDIATELY.

As XH had called me on the way to the airport, I felt comfortable reaching out to him via text a few times for info. I found out later that he only called at D26's urging, though, and soon felt by the morning after she was found that he would rather not communicate with me. Just a feeling from the short business-like texts. I haven't heard from him since he answered my question about her first morning back. No one in his family has communicated with me except his parents, but his father stopped calling or returning my calls or texts back in March when he found out XH had filed (XH knew they liked me and didn't tell them for two months). So most of my info came from my daughters, the social media (intrinsic in the search effort) and in various people close to the family (for longer than I) who added me on fb so that they could keep me up to date.

MIL has absolutely no memory that anything out of the ordinary happened. After a trip to the hospital to deal with severe dehydration and exposure, she was allowed to go home. She was in rough shape, but everyone was amazed at how good she was doing for being out for over three days. She woke up yesterday morning in her own bed and had coffee with "her boys". Just an ordinary day, even though they haven't all been in the same room for at least three years.

I am just absolutely amazed at the last week. And, on a selfish note, sad that I can no longer be a part of the family that an entire community has recently embraced.