Love Is...

Kenna · 04-25-2011, 05:35 PM

Love is...
my homemade ice cold strawberry smoothies.

Ms. Tabitha · 04-25-2011, 05:53 PM

bringing out the best in each other
a slow dance
a message on the mirror that reads: “you are the boss”
deciding on what is correct instead of finding out who is right
discovering the meaning of life in each others eyes

adorable · 04-25-2011, 07:38 PM

My grandparents are 82. They have been married 62 years. Earlier this month my grandmother fell and broke her hip. My grandfather has a really bad heart - when I say really bad, it functions around 20% and he can barely walk.

On Friday she came from the hospital. She was really struggling. She is frail anyway, trying to walk with even a walker is so difficult. While she was in the hospital he had a ramp built for a wheelchair. As we pulled into the driveway, there he stood at the end of that ramp with a wheelchair. I almost lost it. It was everything I could do not to cry.

Without each other, they honestly have nothing.

Last night Nick and I had to take her to back to hospital. The doctors say she may not make it through the night. Apparently she developed an infection in her intestines and it took over her body. She survived emergency surgery today, against the odds but she is so weak from her hip surgery earlier this month that they just don't think she'll make it through this.

She's on a ventilator now, with all kinds of tubes and IVs. They let my grandfather in to see her, and when he came out I could tell he had been crying. What do you do? To actually be one with someone takes time. It's years of sharing life. It's making it through so many things over time again and again.

Then there comes the end. When you have overcome every hurdle and been through so many things together, but you just can't get over this last one. Your entire life has been spent with someone who was the someone it was all for - all the work, the sleepless nights, the good, the bad, the great, the vacations, the kids, the grandkids - all of IT. That person to live with, love, bitch, laugh, cry and hope. In the blink of an eye - or in one weekend - you can watch it just slip away.

My heart aches tonight for them.

bigbutchmistie · 04-25-2011, 07:47 PM

[QUOTE=adorable;327015]My grandparents are 82. They have been married 62 years. Earlier this month my grandmother fell and broke her hip. My grandfather has a really bad heart - when I say really bad, it functions around 20% and he can barely walk.

On Friday she came from the hospital. She was really struggling. She is frail anyway, trying to walk with even a walker is so difficult. While she was in the hospital he had a ramp built for a wheelchair. As we pulled into the driveway, there he stood at the end of that ramp with a wheelchair. I almost lost it. It was everything I could do not to cry.

Without each other, they honestly have nothing.

Last night Nick and I had to take her to back to hospital. The doctors say she may not make it through the night. Apparently she developed an infection in her intestines and it took over her body. She survived emergency surgery today, against the odds but she is so weak from her hip surgery earlier this month that they just don't think she'll make it through this.

She's on a ventilator now, with all kinds of tubes and IVs. They let my grandfather in to see her, and when he came out I could tell he had been crying. What do you do? To actually be one with someone takes time. It's years of sharing life. It's making it through so many things over time again and again.

Then there comes the end. When you have overcome every hurdle and been through so many things together, but you just can't get over this last one. Your entire life has been spent with someone who was the someone it was all for - all the work, the sleepless nights, the good, the bad, the great, the vacations, the kids, the grandkids - all of IT. That person to live with, love, bitch, laugh, cry and hope. In the blink of an eye - or in one weekend - you can watch it just slip away.

My heart aches tonight for them.[/QUOTE)

First let me say I'm sorry about your grandmother that being said sounds like they have had a lifetime of true love Most will never experience that. They are truly blessed. To have loved so deeply and fully.

DomnNC · 04-25-2011, 10:22 PM

Love is simply those quiet moments when the heart speaks through the eyes.

adorable · 04-27-2011, 08:16 AM

Quote:

Originally Posted by adorable

My grandparents are 82. They have been married 62 years. Earlier this month my grandmother fell and broke her hip. My grandfather has a really bad heart - when I say really bad, it functions around 20% and he can barely walk.

On Friday she came from the hospital. She was really struggling. She is frail anyway, trying to walk with even a walker is so difficult. While she was in the hospital he had a ramp built for a wheelchair. As we pulled into the driveway, there he stood at the end of that ramp with a wheelchair. I almost lost it. It was everything I could do not to cry.

Without each other, they honestly have nothing.

Last night Nick and I had to take her to back to hospital. The doctors say she may not make it through the night. Apparently she developed an infection in her intestines and it took over her body. She survived emergency surgery today, against the odds but she is so weak from her hip surgery earlier this month that they just don't think she'll make it through this.

She's on a ventilator now, with all kinds of tubes and IVs. They let my grandfather in to see her, and when he came out I could tell he had been crying. What do you do? To actually be one with someone takes time. It's years of sharing life. It's making it through so many things over time again and again.

Then there comes the end. When you have overcome every hurdle and been through so many things together, but you just can't get over this last one. Your entire life has been spent with someone who was the someone it was all for - all the work, the sleepless nights, the good, the bad, the great, the vacations, the kids, the grandkids - all of IT. That person to live with, love, bitch, laugh, cry and hope. In the blink of an eye - or in one weekend - you can watch it just slip away.

My heart aches tonight for them.

As an update: They just took my grandmother of the ventilator and SHE IS BREATHING ON HER OWN!!!!!! Even the doctor can't believe it. I'm not sure what will happen but it gives us hope.

I think of all the bad things that have happened this month - the fear at least has been put into me - and I reached out to my own daughter who I haven't spoken to in a couple of months. The 'why' just seems so irrelevant in the bigger picture when you realize how fast it can all be over.

I almost reached out to her when I was reading Mike's posts on here. I cried reading that thread. And, when I looked through her pictures on FB, I saw the pictures of Kristin's kids that are close to my girls in age, I just thought god, those poor babies. It made me want my own babies closer. None of us are promised tomorrow and none of us are getting out alive. My goal today is to love with all I have and forget the bs of yesterday the best I can.

Thank you all for your support and encouragement. And I'd like to send a special thank you to Mike for sharing something in here & on FB that was so tragic & personal. I'm sure it helped lots of people. But it touched my heart greatly and put things in perspective for me at a time when I really needed it.

Spirit Dancer · 04-25-2011, 10:32 PM

Love is.....Feeling the warmth, even when there is cold.

Venus007 · 04-25-2011, 10:49 PM

Love is not just a feeling but a choice, a decision.
Not subject to fleeting whims of emotion but a conscious focus and desire to do what must be done, to lay down one's life with someone else doing the same. It is an act of will not something as fickle as the stirrings of the heart.
(not that there is anything wrong with that)

300GT · 04-26-2011, 03:55 AM

love is..

that nudge at 4am, her feet touching my leg.

storyofmylife · 04-26-2011, 04:13 AM

a smile from my mom

hugs from my daughter

snuggles from my furkids

LeftWriteFemme · 04-26-2011, 04:53 AM

Like Oxygen just love the way he swings his microphone....it was 1978

300GT · 05-02-2011, 06:18 PM

The way she listened this morning. Very intently.

Venus007 · 05-02-2011, 11:52 PM

Sitting together in the quiet reading and drinking tea
Dancing around the house and cleaning
Listening to complex music while lying in bed holding hands
Sitting on the porch reading the paper and drinking coffee after breakfast

300GT · 05-16-2011, 05:40 PM

love is..

2 days til shes in my arms.

04-25-2011, 05:35 PM	#1
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04-25-2011, 10:32 PM	#7
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04-25-2011, 10:49 PM	#8
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04-26-2011, 04:13 AM	#10
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04-26-2011, 04:53 AM	#11
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04-25-2011, 05:53 PM	#2
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04-25-2011, 07:38 PM	#3
adorable Member How Do You Identify?: Sarcastically Preferred Pronoun?: She Relationship Status: Unavailable Join Date: Feb 2010 Location: Home of the Yankee's Posts: 752 My Photo Gallery Thanks: 1,708 Thanked 2,644 Times in 590 Posts Rep Power: 12725119	My grandparents are 82. They have been married 62 years. Earlier this month my grandmother fell and broke her hip. My grandfather has a really bad heart - when I say really bad, it functions around 20% and he can barely walk. On Friday she came from the hospital. She was really struggling. She is frail anyway, trying to walk with even a walker is so difficult. While she was in the hospital he had a ramp built for a wheelchair. As we pulled into the driveway, there he stood at the end of that ramp with a wheelchair. I almost lost it. It was everything I could do not to cry. Without each other, they honestly have nothing. Last night Nick and I had to take her to back to hospital. The doctors say she may not make it through the night. Apparently she developed an infection in her intestines and it took over her body. She survived emergency surgery today, against the odds but she is so weak from her hip surgery earlier this month that they just don't think she'll make it through this. She's on a ventilator now, with all kinds of tubes and IVs. They let my grandfather in to see her, and when he came out I could tell he had been crying. What do you do? To actually be one with someone takes time. It's years of sharing life. It's making it through so many things over time again and again. Then there comes the end. When you have overcome every hurdle and been through so many things together, but you just can't get over this last one. Your entire life has been spent with someone who was the someone it was all for - all the work, the sleepless nights, the good, the bad, the great, the vacations, the kids, the grandkids - all of IT. That person to live with, love, bitch, laugh, cry and hope. In the blink of an eye - or in one weekend - you can watch it just slip away. My heart aches tonight for them.

04-25-2011, 07:47 PM	#4
bigbutchmistie Senior Member How Do You Identify?: Since You Need A Label. Butch Relationship Status: Still Dreaming Of My Happily Ever After Join Date: Nov 2009 Location: Arlington Texas Posts: 4,009 My Photo Gallery Thanks: 4,950 Thanked 5,364 Times in 1,941 Posts Rep Power: 21474857	[QUOTE=adorable;327015]My grandparents are 82. They have been married 62 years. Earlier this month my grandmother fell and broke her hip. My grandfather has a really bad heart - when I say really bad, it functions around 20% and he can barely walk. On Friday she came from the hospital. She was really struggling. She is frail anyway, trying to walk with even a walker is so difficult. While she was in the hospital he had a ramp built for a wheelchair. As we pulled into the driveway, there he stood at the end of that ramp with a wheelchair. I almost lost it. It was everything I could do not to cry. Without each other, they honestly have nothing. Last night Nick and I had to take her to back to hospital. The doctors say she may not make it through the night. Apparently she developed an infection in her intestines and it took over her body. She survived emergency surgery today, against the odds but she is so weak from her hip surgery earlier this month that they just don't think she'll make it through this. She's on a ventilator now, with all kinds of tubes and IVs. They let my grandfather in to see her, and when he came out I could tell he had been crying. What do you do? To actually be one with someone takes time. It's years of sharing life. It's making it through so many things over time again and again. Then there comes the end. When you have overcome every hurdle and been through so many things together, but you just can't get over this last one. Your entire life has been spent with someone who was the someone it was all for - all the work, the sleepless nights, the good, the bad, the great, the vacations, the kids, the grandkids - all of IT. That person to live with, love, bitch, laugh, cry and hope. In the blink of an eye - or in one weekend - you can watch it just slip away. My heart aches tonight for them.[/QUOTE) First let me say I'm sorry about your grandmother that being said sounds like they have had a lifetime of true love Most will never experience that. They are truly blessed. To have loved so deeply and fully.

04-25-2011, 10:22 PM	#5
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05-16-2011, 05:40 PM	#14
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