Guest guest Posted January 7, 2010 Report Share Posted January 7, 2010 what a beautiful story about a beautiful gift thanks for sharing sharon stimtimminss wrote: > > Florence Ann, what a touching story. Thank you for sharing it. How special that your mother can still read the Bible and appreciate what she is reading, as well as all the other benefits her recent surgery has given her during her LBD journey. I so love hearing about the positives for our los. > When Mom turned 90 she was so low I knew that gifting from the few special people we had help celebrate would be too much for her. Yet I knew they would want to acknowledge celebrating the milestone with something. I asked each to bring a sprig of a favourite flower, had a vase ready and we simply presented her with our " friendship bouquet " . She was able to enjoy the vision when eyes managed to open, aroma when closed as my offering was very aromatic. One of the sprigs was artificial, which I kept in her room until she died, telling her every now and then when she was alert who it was from and why. Did any of it register? I know not. Did I and our special support group feel better doing it? Yes. Nothing to open, no paper all over the floor, no real commotion, just putting flowers quietly into a vase. I would do it again. > > >> >> I haven't written anything to my fellow journey folks lately, but upon reading about no Christmas gift being given, I knew I had to share this with my LBD friends. Like many others I had decided not to give my Mom (the woman who has everything anyway) anything for Christmas, but 1 week before Christmas, she had a surgery that really changed my mind. One of her cataract implants had had scar tissue to develop behind the lens and needed to be lasered. Immediately she was able to read without her magnifying glass, watch TV and read the scrawl line, and asked for her Bible. Early on in our journey, I had found her Bible mildewed after having something spilled onto it, and the pages were stuck together. Upon telling her of this, she expressed how much she would like to read from a Bible. That became her Christmas present, and she's enjoyed it so much. Thanks so much to this site where we can express our joy, sadness, anxiety, and know that >> someone knows just exactly what we're feeling and trying to express. >> >> Florence Ann >> >> Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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