An excerpt from my book coming out late fall.
OVERCOME
"...I remember pumping his chest and seeing through the corner of my eye the Fire trucks pull up.
HURRY...PLEASE HURRY
WHY WERE THEY WALKING...RUN!
Then suddenly, they were there, pulling me off my son, my husband running into the room. Its true what they say about things slowing down. I felt like I was in a thick fog. The firemen pulling out the stretcher, my husband covering his mouth with his hand. I knew, I knew he was gone. I had felt his last breathe leave him as I tried desperatly to breathe life back into him. I started pushing through the men in the room. I could hear someone was screaming. I was going to be sick. Then I realized the screaming was coming from me. I was laying on his bed, curled up in his pillow and comforter. Screaming. Grabbing the comforter I somehow stumbled into the twins room where Brian had the twins.
OH MY GOD...OH MY GOD
THEY HAVE LOST THEIR BROTHER, I NO LONGER HAVE FOUR BOYS.
I looked at my hands because they were sticking to his comforter. Sticking because the blood was drying. I was losing it, things were going dark. Brian grabbed my hand, all but 14 years old and said, "Don't do it mom, don't do anything stupid."
I began to vomit. I was completely and utterly....overcome"
-Kimberly Tocco
aka Jojo Wood
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