Comments on: The other notebook http://www.birdsontheblog.co.uk/the-other-notebook/ Business Women of Opinion! Sun, 12 Feb 2012 01:45:15 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 By: Jackie Walker http://www.birdsontheblog.co.uk/the-other-notebook/comment-page-1/#comment-4909 Jackie Walker Tue, 03 Aug 2010 13:21:39 +0000 http://www.birdsontheblog.co.uk/?p=6256#comment-4909 What a beautiful story Sarah. It's brought a lump to my throat too. Your story shows so perfectly that deep love knows no age limit and to give with no expectation of getting has great rewards. <br><br>My mother cared for my dying father, refusing to let him be admitted to hospital. In his last 6 months, I watched as they began to realise just how much they loved one another after all. What a beautiful story Sarah. It's brought a lump to my throat too. Your story shows so perfectly that deep love knows no age limit and to give with no expectation of getting has great rewards.

My mother cared for my dying father, refusing to let him be admitted to hospital. In his last 6 months, I watched as they began to realise just how much they loved one another after all.

]]> By: Sarah Arrow http://www.birdsontheblog.co.uk/the-other-notebook/comment-page-1/#comment-4910 Sarah Arrow Tue, 03 Aug 2010 13:04:58 +0000 http://www.birdsontheblog.co.uk/?p=6256#comment-4910 Thanks for sharing Anita, living with an elderly relative can have a hard impact at times.<br>That reminds of something that Angela mentions in her blog about her grandfather, that when we are younger we make all these flip statements about what to do with us when we can no longer cope.<br><br>It must be heartbreaking for everyone if you have instructed them and forgot that you did it. Thanks for sharing Anita, living with an elderly relative can have a hard impact at times.
That reminds of something that Angela mentions in her blog about her grandfather, that when we are younger we make all these flip statements about what to do with us when we can no longer cope.

It must be heartbreaking for everyone if you have instructed them and forgot that you did it.

]]> By: Anita http://www.birdsontheblog.co.uk/the-other-notebook/comment-page-1/#comment-4822 Anita Sun, 01 Aug 2010 02:15:44 +0000 http://www.birdsontheblog.co.uk/?p=6256#comment-4822 Hi Sarah, thank you for writing such a touching post. I have struggled for most of my life with the effects of watching my nana deteriorate with this disease. She lived with us and we took care of her. She didn't know me, her son and family for a long time, and as a child I spent hours trying to 'help' her, as I just didn't understand what this disease was .. now as an adult I can see it through different eyes, but the pain of watching years of her life wiped away with no memories was tough on the whole family.<br><br>The love shown by her husband and family in the detail that she needs, is true love at it's best. Remembering for her, rejoicing in who she is/was and the memories held dear in your heart of a special lady dancing the night away. Hi Sarah, thank you for writing such a touching post. I have struggled for most of my life with the effects of watching my nana deteriorate with this disease. She lived with us and we took care of her. She didn't know me, her son and family for a long time, and as a child I spent hours trying to 'help' her, as I just didn't understand what this disease was .. now as an adult I can see it through different eyes, but the pain of watching years of her life wiped away with no memories was tough on the whole family.

The love shown by her husband and family in the detail that she needs, is true love at it's best. Remembering for her, rejoicing in who she is/was and the memories held dear in your heart of a special lady dancing the night away.
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]]> By: Sarah Arrow http://www.birdsontheblog.co.uk/the-other-notebook/comment-page-1/#comment-4820 Sarah Arrow Sat, 31 Jul 2010 23:27:27 +0000 http://www.birdsontheblog.co.uk/?p=6256#comment-4820 Thanks, it breaks my heart I wonder why we have such capacity to have such love to have it taken in our golden years? Thanks, it breaks my heart I wonder why we have such capacity to have such love to have it taken in our golden years?

]]> By: Jeni Middlehurst http://www.birdsontheblog.co.uk/the-other-notebook/comment-page-1/#comment-4766 Jeni Middlehurst Fri, 30 Jul 2010 14:08:56 +0000 http://www.birdsontheblog.co.uk/?p=6256#comment-4766 "What happens when just one of you remembers" What a thought! To those of us with a God, we are the sum of our memories and who and what we are lives on in the memories of our friends and especially our children. When you are old and married, it's the joint memories good and bad that hold you together. Thanks to a trick of advancing years long term memory is enhanced and long forgotten gems resurface. To have your partner beside you and not to be able to share the remembered pleasure of the times you had together is heartbreaking. What a beautiful post Sarah. “What happens when just one of you remembers” What a thought! To those of us with a God, we are the sum of our memories and who and what we are lives on in the memories of our friends and especially our children. When you are old and married, it's the joint memories good and bad that hold you together. Thanks to a trick of advancing years long term memory is enhanced and long forgotten gems resurface. To have your partner beside you and not to be able to share the remembered pleasure of the times you had together is heartbreaking. What a beautiful post Sarah.

]]> By: Sarah Arrow http://www.birdsontheblog.co.uk/the-other-notebook/comment-page-1/#comment-4767 Sarah Arrow Fri, 30 Jul 2010 13:50:31 +0000 http://www.birdsontheblog.co.uk/?p=6256#comment-4767 sorry Suze, I should have added a weepy warning!<br><br>My parents split up after 20 years of marriage and my grandparents were married, but how can I word it - it became happier when he was no longer strong enough to fight, or drink. There was lots of love shown, but written off under the guise of the drink talking. It was sadly not a grand passion.<br><br>Not many examples for me, so I guess me and Kev will have to be the example ;) sorry Suze, I should have added a weepy warning!

My parents split up after 20 years of marriage and my grandparents were married, but how can I word it – it became happier when he was no longer strong enough to fight, or drink. There was lots of love shown, but written off under the guise of the drink talking. It was sadly not a grand passion.

Not many examples for me, so I guess me and Kev will have to be the example ;)

]]> By: Suzan St Maur http://www.birdsontheblog.co.uk/the-other-notebook/comment-page-1/#comment-4763 Suzan St Maur Fri, 30 Jul 2010 11:58:15 +0000 http://www.birdsontheblog.co.uk/?p=6256#comment-4763 My parents grew to hate each in other in old age - they really should have split up years earlier but their generation were "in it for life, better or worse." Having witnessed that I am even more touched than most when I read about or see a very elderly couple still in a loving relationship. Your post brought tears to my eyes Sarah ... it's lovely. My parents grew to hate each in other in old age – they really should have split up years earlier but their generation were “in it for life, better or worse.” Having witnessed that I am even more touched than most when I read about or see a very elderly couple still in a loving relationship. Your post brought tears to my eyes Sarah … it's lovely.
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