~ Eternal Love ~

Eternal Love ...........

(Written by Xaeos )

A few years back, my grandmother had a stroke and required extensive care, so my family was forced to put her into a nursing home. My grandfather, her husband of over fifty years, went to visit his wife every single day. He couldn’t bear to spend even one single day without her. This heartbreaking routine went on for a couple of years. Then, one day, out of nowhere, my grandfather became very ill and was sent to the hospital where he was diagnosed with an aggressive form of cancer that took over his entire body in a matter of days. There was nothing medically that they could do for him. When my father and I received the phone call saying that he wouldn’t live much longer, we immediately got on a flight and went to see him. While we were there, we also went to the nursing home to visit my grandmother. Because of her fragile state, no-one had yet told her what was going one. The rest of the family wanted to keep it from her. My father and I debated over it, and decided that she should know, and something told us that we should try to bring her to the hospital to see him. Since she had been admitted to the nursing home a few years earlier, she had never left, so we weren’t sure if this would even be possible. However, my father went and talked to administration and they gave their approvals and we took her to see her husband. They spent a half day together at the hospital where they talked, hugged, held hands, and had a final dinner together before saying their goodbyes. Later that night, my grandfather passed away. Since then, my grandmothers’ condition has become progressively worse and she has lost most of her memories and has lost time. To date, she wakes up every morning and doesn’t remember that her husband has died. She patiently waits everyday for his visit, but he never comes. She doesn’t remember day to day that he isn’t there. She believes that he was there just the prior day and that something must have come up where he couldn’t visit today, but she is sure he will be back tomorrow. When tomorrow comes, she repeats the cycle over and over again.