Went for a walk up to the shops today whilst Nielsen was resting and met up with an old friend - the last she had heard I had just got engaged and she wanted to see the ring, hear all about the wedding etc etc . So I had to tell her my news- how I hate people feeling sorry for me - natrual on their part of course -but still I hate it. Then she started telling me about her life - her 70year old husband who has been diagnosed with dementia and how she was no longer his wife but his carer - but it didnt feel she was a carer like I am caring for someone who so values what I am doing for him and despite this disease is still the man I fell in love with she is caring for someone she no longer knows and who no longer knows her - and I started feeling sorry for her ! We chatted, then we embraced and she left the shop - returning a few minutes later with a lovely bunch of sunflowers she had picked up for me - their bright cheery faces flying in contradiction of everything we felt - bless her - people are so very kind - I sit here typing with her sunflowers smiling away in the corner and am reminded once again of the small kindnesses we show our fellow human beings which mean so very very much.
Love and healing thoughts to you all.
Lyn x
