EPISODE 1316 / 09.27.26

Three weeks after the earthquake, Jason Fisher’s living room has taken on the temporary look of a place that has become part sickroom, part home. A small table beside the couch is crowded with bottles of medication, a glass of water, a stack of gauze and several rolls of medical tape. Jason sits in the middle of it all, one arm resting carefully on a pillow. The worst of the burns are healing, but the bandages around his hands and neck make it clear that recovering and recovered are two very different things.

Sabrina Gage stands behind him, carefully working at the edge of a dressing while Sophie Fisher sits nearby, sorting fresh gauze into a neat pile.

“You know, when the doctor said I could recover at home, I don’t think this is what he had in mind.”

Sabrina doesn’t look up. “He probably didn’t expect you to complain this much.”

“I’m injured. I’m entitled to complain.”

From our 20th anniversary in 2017:

Restauranteur Bill Fisher and his wife, Paula, raised four children in the scenic Northwest town of King’s Bay, Washington. Those children — Tim, Molly, Sarah, and Jason — grew up to have lives full of intrigue, passion, danger, heartbreak, and more. Since October 1997, Footprints has been telling the uninterrupted story of the Fisher family and their friends and foes… a story told in the vein of television’s great daytime dramas… a story with no end.