13-11-2015, 05:47 PM
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What was your most memorable christmas.
So what was your most memorable Christmas--good or bad.Mine is easy--Christmas 2004. My husband had been ill for some time--and in hospital for a few months. He could walk when he went in--but became unable to even stand up. I was told he would be moved to a home as he no longer needed nursing, just care. But I was adamant that I could look after him at home-despite many objections-even from his own son. However a care package was set up, and after several hiccups he came home on December 20th.
It was the Worst Christmas ever--no presents, no tree, no decorations, no christmas dinner, no visitors--nothing...
But it was also the Best Christmas ever--as I had him back home with me for what we both knew in our hearts would be out last Christmas together. I truly learned then, that the only thing that counts--at Christmas--or anytime,is to have your loved one by your side, because without that, everything else means nothing.
13-11-2015, 06:23 PM
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Re: What was your most memorable christmas.
Hi2001 was mine.
I had a massive heart attack in that December, followed by unstable angina.
I had emergency surgery, only given a 1 in 3 chance of surviving it.
I woke up from a Quadruple Bypass on my 50th birthday and arrived home 3 days before Christmas.
It was the last Christmas we ever had together as a family, me, the mother of my children and my two kids.
Christmas day was lovely, even though I was on a makeshift bed in the lounge, I knew it was to be our last together so made the most of it.
I never let on to the kids what was happening.
My wife had said a very strange thing when she was allowed to see me after the heart attack, I was in ITU, wired up to everything when she came in , looked at me and said "Who will look after me now"
When I arrived home from from hospital after the Bypass she told me she was leaving, she had been seeing an old boyfriend for sometime,
We agreed not to tell the kids so as not to spoil Christmas, her new man was telling his wife after Christmas.
She left early in the New Year, three weeks before our 25th Wedding Anniversary.
I returned home from a Hospital Appointment to find the house empty, her things gone, a letter from her Solicitor on the table.
Not a Christmas I will ever forget.
13-11-2015, 06:32 PM
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Re: What was your most memorable christmas.
Christmas 1960. I was 4 years old, and a patient in Great Ormond Street Hospital. Max Bygraves broadcast 'Meet the Kids' from there. All my street were watching it on the telly, and he gave me a blue doll's carry-cot with a small doll in it.I was discharged about a week later, and my family had Christmas all over again, just for me! They even persuaded Father Christmas to make a special trip down our chimney.
13-11-2015, 06:36 PM
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Re: What was your most memorable christmas.
Originally Posted by Deb W
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Christmas 1960. I was 4 years old, and a patient in Great Ormond Street Hospital. Max Bygraves broadcast 'Meet the Kids' from there. All my street were watching it on the telly, and he gave me a blue doll's carry-cot with a small doll in it.I was discharged about a week later, and my family had Christmas all over again, just for me! They even persuaded Father Christmas to make a special trip down our chimney.
13-11-2015, 06:42 PM
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Re: What was your most memorable christmas.
My most memorable Christmas, and there have been so many, was seventeen years ago when two of my granddaughters, then age five and three, came back from NZ. None of the family knew they were coming back. We managed to keep it a secret right up until Christmas Eve when they all arrived at our house to find them there waiting. Not a dry eye in the house! Unfortunately their Mum took them back again two years later so we visit them when we can.13-11-2015, 06:58 PM
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Re: What was your most memorable christmas.
Originally Posted by EZ Rider
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My most memorable Christmas, and there have been so many, was seventeen years ago when two of my granddaughters, then age five and three, came back from NZ. None of the family knew they were coming back. We managed to keep it a secret right up until Christmas Eve when they all arrived at our house to find them there waiting. Not a dry eye in the house! Unfortunately their Mum took them back again two years later so we visit them when we can.
13-11-2015, 07:37 PM
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Re: What was your most memorable christmas.
Originally Posted by swimfeeders
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Hi2001 was mine.
I had a massive heart attack in that December, followed by unstable angina.
I had emergency surgery, only given a 1 in 3 chance of surviving it.
I woke up from a Quadruple Bypass on my 50th birthday and arrived home 3 days before Christmas.
It was the last Christmas we ever had together as a family, me, the mother of my children and my two kids.
Christmas day was lovely, even though I was on a makeshift bed in the lounge, I knew it was to be our last together so made the most of it.
I never let on to the kids what was happening.
My wife had said a very strange thing when she was allowed to see me after the heart attack, I was in ITU, wired up to everything when she came in , looked at me and said "Who will look after me now"
When I arrived home from from hospital after the Bypass she told me she was leaving, she had been seeing an old boyfriend for sometime,
We agreed not to tell the kids so as not to spoil Christmas, her new man was telling his wife after Christmas.
She left early in the New Year, three weeks before our 25th Wedding Anniversary.
I returned home from a Hospital Appointment to find the house empty, her things gone, a letter from her Solicitor on the table.
Not a Christmas I will ever forget.
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