Thanksgiving is, for many of us, the beginning of a string of holidays. Sometime between now and the New Year, many adult children will make an attempt to visit with their aging parents.
Adult children carry with them memoires of holidays past. The sights and smells of the familiar home with...
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Forgetting Visitors
dadcarer
Wednesday, November 26, 2008 at 11:21 AMre: Forgetting Visitors
Carol Bradley Bursack
Wednesday, November 26, 2008 at 11:24 AMI'll check out the last reunion - it will be a tear jerker, I'm sure. When my dad died, I had to tell Mom every day. It was brand new to her. It was truly horrible. It's obvious that you understand that.
Take care and thanks for the comment.
Carol
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This one really hit home. The very last time my father visited my mother at the hospital before she died she did not remember he had been there. I was witness to the visit, which was poignant to say the least. The fact that she had no recollection of the event was one of the saddest points of her whole decline into death. Thanks again for a thought-provoking post. (The story of their last reunion is retold on www.care2tell.com under the title "The Reunion".)