DEAR FRIENDS,
I've had so many wonderful emails,
messages, cards,
and special web pages from so many caring
friends that it could take me a month of Sunday's to
answer
you all individually, though I will get around to
contacting you all, when everything settles down.
So for the moment, I have made this special web page for
you.
I hope you don't find it too impersonal, but I wanted to
thank you
all for your prayers, your thoughts, and your caring
during this
emotional time for me.
I wanted to do it now, not weeks from now because I
appreciate your taking the time to let me know you care.
During these past few years our so-called friends, here
at home,
gradually disappeared, I suppose calling, even by phone,
only to be told that my husband wasn't improving and
wouldn't
even know that they had inquired, made it all the easier
for them
not to call at all.
It's a great pity, because they could have learned so
much
from our experience, not only about the trials and
emotions
looking after a loved one with dementia, but the pitfalls
of
involving government 'do-good' departments in their lives
.
I just thank the Lord that He finally released my husband
from his 'nothingness' and at the end, from his pain,
which
he must surely have felt but couldn't express to me.
I thank all of you for your messages, prayers and words
of love.
God bless you,
Your friend,
Jamie.
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THANK YOU, MY DEAR FRIENDS
I have been truly blessed with many
dear friends,
Most of whom I've never met,
Who have shared my happiness and my grief
Through this thing, called the Internet.
A cold machine made of panels and plugs
One would think it bore no heart
But it encompasses beings with living souls
Sharing lives with new friends, miles apart.
Our hurts, pleasures, innermost feelings
With these friends we openly share.
Friends, always there when the need calls.
To listen and show that they care.
This expression of thanks is for you my friends,
From the depths of my saddened heart.
For taking the time to pass on to me
Your sympathies and words of comfort.
Many times these past years I felt so alone ,
Some of you shared my days of despair,
But you wouldn't let me fall by the way,
You lifted me back with your prayers.
Though my husband now is at peace and at rest,
My problems still are far from done,
But I now feel, thanks to your support
These demons, will be overcome.
Bless you all for your thoughts and your prayers
So many messages.... I love and thank you all!
They've helped more than you could ever imagine,
Just know, I will be there for YOU, when you call.
May God bless each and every one of
you.
Jamie
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