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mother caught bronchitis in the early spring.  Through out the spring and summer it kept reoccurring.  In July, she was diagnosed and hospitalized with viral pneumonia.  On the twentieth of July, nineteen-eighty-one Eleanor Louise Macgregor died the same day her great-granddaughter, Stacey Leighanne Scott was born.
    Chapter-13
    Stacey Leighanne Scott
    Jessie had gone to bed the on the nineteenth of July with a backache.  For the past two weeks, she had been helping Sam set up his office and clinic in Rawhide. This was one of Sam’s dreams, to provide medical care to this rural community.  Henry Fairfield knew about Sam’s dream and wanted to help.  Henry had known Sam Scott all of his life.
    He was six years Sam’s senior and had grown up in Rawhide. He now lived in Austin and owned his own business.  He was a self-made man and had great respect for the Scott family. Henry’s dad, Thomas Fairfield, passed away a few years ago, but his mother had just died this passed spring. Henry had no use for the house; therefore, he donated it to Sam to use as a clinic.  It was a brick, five-room house, just two blocks over from the school. The living room would be the waiting room, one bedroom his office, the other two bedrooms would be examining rooms.  The kitchen would double as a lab and break Room, and there was one bathroom down the hall.
    Sam didn’t get home from the clinic on the nineteenth of July until around twelve a.m.  At one a.m. Jessie woke with heavy contractions. She didn’t want to bother Sam, she knew he was tired and she thought it was premature labor. By two a.m., she knew better. At three-thirty-three on the twentieth of July nineteen-eighty-one, Doctor Sam Scott delivered his baby daughter.  Le Chen was there too and helped all he could.  Le took care of the baby girl, while Doctor Sam took care of his wife.
    Around eight o’clock that morning; Jessie called to tell her mom and dad about the baby.  She asked about her grandmother.  Her mom broke down and told her that her grandmother had died thirty minutes before Stacey was born.  This news was very hard for Jessie to handle.  The funeral was on Sunday, but Jessie was not able to attend.  Sam found his wife sliding into a state of depression.  The Scotts were there to help as much as possible.  Jessie’s family came too.  Lora wanted to stay, but Jessie said, “No, I want to take care of my daughter myself.”
    For about three weeks, Jessie cried a lot and Sam was becoming concerned about her.  Le Chen talked with Jessie. He tried in his own quiet way to explain about his belief in, ‘The breath of life.’ Jessie knew that some people’s belief in reincarnation.  Right now, that notion helped her a lot.  When Sam got home that night Jessie was up, dressed and greeted her husband with a kiss.  Sam told her he was so happy to have his Jessie back.  When Stacey was three weeks old, her mother took her to the clinic with her to help Doctor Sam.  Mr. Chen kept the house and had food ready when they arrived home.
    On the thirty-first of July, nineteen-eighty-one, Le Chen drove Sonia Mendes to the clinic where she delivered a son.  Antonio Miguel Mendes.  Jake read her note when he got home.  Le Chen was waiting for him with his supper ready and then drove Jake to the clinic to see his wife and son.
    Ranch life was hard that summer. There was a drought in their part of Texas. Even down by the river and the lake the land lay parched. Jake was trying to keep fodder for the cattle as close to the river and lake as possible.  Le Chen found himself helping in that area as well.
    After, a day and night at the clinic, Sonia came home and things went back to normal as well as could be. By September, Sam and Jake knew there would be no round up for sale.  Sam knew his dad’s cattle had faired no better.  Because of the drought, ranchers were hanging on by the skin of their teeth.
    The new grandparents and Jessie’s siblings had all