Visits can be a uplifting, or so extreeeemely depressing, or, heck...both! I hate looking around the visitors room at the little children. That just breaks my heart. Toddlers wandering around, teens sulking while their dads lecture them, couples arguing over bills, mothers and sons, brothers playing cards together, it's an amazing scene. Even if I knew no one there, it would still be heart wrenching.

It's tough, but it gets easier...surreal, but easier -- only because you get used to how insane it is.

Please keep talking to us.

emmy