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Published November 09, 2009 12:26 am - Some of the details are a bit fuzzy, but I do remember sitting there and feeling like a giant hole had been cut out of my chest.
A Don McCormack column: A big man, with an even bigger heart
DON McCORMACK Star Beacon
Some of the details are a bit fuzzy, but I do remember sitting there and feeling like a giant hole had been cut out of my chest.
As I the rescue personnel checked on Mom’s body, I couldn’t move. It was almost an out-of-body experience as I felt myself sitting there, but it was like I wasn’t there.
I know, it sounds ridiculous, but I don’t know how else to describe it.
Having found Mom in her bed and desperately trying to bring her back, I knew her time had come and as the EMTs dutifully went about their tasks, I just sat there.
Staring.
Motionless.
While I wasn’t sobbing, tears, one after another, just rolled down my face.
Finally, one of the EMTs asked me if I could move so they could go about taking Mom out of her bed, but I couldn’t.
I couldn’t even offer an audible answer.
Then I felt two giant arms under me, lifting my 130-pound frame as if it was a box being taken out to the curb for trash pickup.
The bear of a man said to me, “Come on, Donnie... you did all you could,” and he carried me out of the room.
Rewind about a quarter of a century into the past.
As the flames tore through our house and having dove out a window after trying and failing to rescue our family dog, Tippy, I decided I wasn’t giving up.
I headed for the back door for one final shot of getting to Mom’s little terrier, but two giant arms wrapped me up, not allowing me to head back inside.
“You can’t go back in there, Donnie,” the bear of a man said to me. “You shouldn’t even have gone back and upstairs in the first place.
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