I was 14 years old and at a youth event at my church. We were told that the youth pastor had to take his wife away due to “something” but they wouldn’t explain why. We were teenagers but could sense that that “something” was major. I remember feeling like I was in a horror movie waiting for something bad to happen.
I could feel the tension in the room.
Teri
After going home, my grandparents and my mom were discussing an emergency route, and were making plans to go to our church camp cottage in New Freedom, PA or to our cousins’ in Baltimore, MD. I could hear them talking but not understanding what it all meant. I could feel the tension in the room. I heard my grandmother talking to our cousin in Baltimore and telling us what the news media was explaining to them because we were not getting the thorough information.
I then recall how life finally got back to normal and then months later seeing signs go up around York with detour color routes.
I don’t know what really happened
To this day, when I come home to York and see those detour signs, cross the Susquehanna River and see those white pillars, hear the acronym “TMI” meaning Too Much Information quivers of fear roll through my body.
I don’t know what really happened and if I, or my family, have been affected physically by cancer, but we have certainly been affected with a fear that will last for the rest of my life.
Teri