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• THE JOURNEY IS OVER (JOURNAL 90)

  3 June, 2016

  If you were to read our journal entry for this day last year, you would read the following Today's instalment… [more]

• JOURNAL 89

  22 May, 2016

  Hi sweetheart, Sometimes I experience periods of “What if…?”. These are times when my mind seems… [more]

• JOURNAL 88

  17 May, 2016

  Hi Darling, Coming home from the hospital with a mechanical device fitted to my chest – a P.E.G. I think it… [more]

• JOURNAL 87

  13 May, 2016

  JOURNAL 87 The doctor said I can go home this morning. The surgery has had the desired effect and this new means of… [more]

• JOURNAL 86

  10 May, 2016

  JOURNAL 86 MOTHER’S DAY Hello sweetheart, I haven’t spoken to our children as to… [more]

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• Our Journey Through the Valley (3)

  17 April, 2013

  How one couple are facing life and death in the presence of Motor Neurone Disease.

  BE V:  When I was in my early 20s, I recall attending the funeral of a friend during which the hymn "Forever With The Lord" was sung. There is a line in that hymn which reads: Yet nightly pitch my moving tent a day's march nearer home.  That line has never left me, and often it would be my last thought as I settled to sleep at night. In thinking of them today, the word that has come alive is the word "Home".

  My journey through the valley is so I can reach home. During my life time we have had to set up a new "home" many times. The anguish of leaving behind what is very dear and known and setting up home again in an unfamiliar and often unknown place is very daunting, but I have done it and have always ended up being very happy. So it will be with this journey. My great sadness that I mentioned yesterday is because of what I will leave behind. But somehow that is balanced  today  with the knowledge that I am going Home, and this will be my eternal home, I will never have to move again!

  With each move has come the task of caring for my family. With 3 children having very different needs, and each one responding according to their personalities, I worked hard to help them adapt to new friendships, schools and surroundings. So with this journey, I will put all my effort into making sure that my husband, children and grandchildren are comfortable with their new circumstances and surroundings as I go on ahead of them to our new home.