My Mum has started ringing me every day.
just for the last week actually, but...
... could it be a coincidence that my sister (who she USUALLY speaks to every day) has lost her voice and that, combined with Mum's own problems in the hearing department, has left any conversation between the two of them pretty much a non-starter?
In fact, they had a bit of a laugh the other day, when Helen took Mum out (to Betty's in Ilkley) - Helen couldn't speak, Mum couldn't hear and the somehow communicated to each other that all they needed now was ME who can't see and then they'd have the full set!!
What a jolly jape!
LILY & ROSE
Here are some photos of Lily & Rose. There are a few from the first time we saw them when they were just 4 weeks old. They would fit on your hand at this age and didn't look much like westies!
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I watched a moving French film the other night called "The Diving Bell and the Butterfly" about the editor fo Elle Magazine, Jean-Dominique Bauby who suffered a massive stroke which left him with "locked in" syndrome and only able to communicate with blinks of his left eye only. He was able to dictate his memoirs after his dedicated and extraordinarily patient interlocutor devised an alphabet system based on the most frequently occurring letters in the French language. Tragically he died of pneumonia 2 days after publication.....however...I tell you this because your (deaf as a )post while raising a smile prompted me to think again of the film which left a great impression on me and in particular a scene between Jean-Do as he was called, and his father, played by the wonderful Max von Sydow. His father was confined to a wheelchair and therefor similarly locked in, and in an earlier really deeply affectionate scene, JD had tenderly shaved his curmudgeon of a father. Later in the film his father telephoned the hospital after he'd been told of his son's illness and there followed between them both, a "conversation" (through his interlocutor) which left me in bits...
ReplyDeleteI will try to watch this film even though I hate putting myself in a position where I might be reduced to bits, but it sounds fascinating.
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