| Oh Heather, what a horrible thing to happen to your family!! Please know that I will have everyone in my thoughts and prayers.
If I can share, I'll try to keep it short... My best friend went through something similar. She was taking her daughter and her boyfriend back to college when someone hit them and the boyfriend was killed. (My friend was battered with some broken bones soft tissue loss and her daughter had a broken clavicle and some bruising.) They were hit from behind and there was nothing that she could have done to prevent it.
They are from a large and VERY close family with lots of friends and support and a very strong faith. Even with all of that, neither of them really began to heal until they started getting professional help quite a few months later. Being good Catholics, they were both so full of guilt and grief that it took medication to finally help them see their way through it.
After seeing all that they went through while I (and everyone else) wasn't able to help them, I would strongly urge you to try to get your MIL and SIL into counseling as soon as possible.
There is no way that we can ever imagine the horror that they saw and heard and felt.
May God bless you all and give you the strength to make it through this. |