Have you ever had a single of those weeks when everything seems to go from brutal to worse to worst? That’s how we felt last hot season while in a single of the most trying times for our family.
- The group of us live in a farming community, and summers are a busy season for everyone.
But, we had to put most of our plans on hold to help my sibling… She almost died from a drug overdose, and this crushed my parents completely. My sibling had lived in the village with my uncle a few years ago and fell in with the wrong people. She started abusing drugs to the point that she could no longer live with them, so they sent her back home. My parents did all they could to help her. But, she was having such a taxing time with the addiction complication. On top of dealing with this matter, we also had to get by with a failing A/C device. At the start of summer, dad called an A/C worker to tune up the device, and when she checked the A/C system, she suggested that my dad start preparing to purchase an up-to-date cooling device. The particular one we had was on its last leg and would soon fail and be beyond repair. As if that wasn’t brutal enough, we got a single of the worst heat waves in our area. Our exhausting A/C device tried to keep the lake household cool for a couple of afternoons. But, eventually, it just stopped working. We were left moving several portable A/C devices around the lake house to keep ourselves cool… Everyone hoped the hot season would be over and we would have a greater advantage in fall or winter.