For Better or For Worse ...The Better Days and the Worst Days

This is not all a cheerful happy post so if you can't deal with it leave now.... if you can, or are so nosy you can't resist..... scroll down

 

 

Hi, glad you came down this far....are you  ready to join me in a good ol' snivel? Yes?

Scroll on down so.

No? then you had better not.

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You've been warned!

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This is a photo of my mam and dad on their wedding day taken in No. 72 Glentow Rd, Whitehall, Dublin 1952. (Her family home) 

I have just noticed that they have willow patten crockery on their table! I have it in my cottage. Gotta love willow pattern. I do -  and always have.

Anyway, this shows them on their wedding day in 1952, the photo shows that they had a wedding breakfast of  ..and I know ,'cos I asked her, sausages,black pudding and rashers and sliced bread. You can see them right in front of them as they are cutting the cake.

I love this photo. Here is a close up of their hands as they cut the cake and started on the journey that is  marriage.

 

the photo above is the "For Better" and the photo below is  "...or for worse"

Only scroll down if you can deal with it.

 

 

Here is a photo taken the day my lovely Da died.

 23rd Dec. 2008.

Yes, last Christmas.

So reminiscent of the photo above....

 

this photo was displayed on his coffin at his funeral the day after Christmas.

In Feb. of this year, while I was still grieving for me Da, my husband, and rock, was diagnosed with cancer of the thyroid.

He has just come through the treatment for his cancer. We are still a bit raw and reeling from it. His prognosis is good and we are so happy with that.

Here is a photo taken of us on our wedding day in 1979 in Raheny Church, Dublin. This is our "For Better" photo.

 

scroll down only if you can handle our "for worse" photo.....

 

 

 
 

 

 

Yes, I put it way down so you had to want to see it. 

Bear in mind he is over all of this and has a really good prognosis....

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".....for worse ......in sickness and in health"

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Taken after the second of his three operations,

But it all has a happy ending, at least for us...'cos here we are on the day he was released from hospital.

No need for scrolling as this is a nice happy photo. 

 

'Nuff said.
 
 

 

Comments

[Tracey]

Need more information NOW! It's a lovely photograph.....

[Tracey]

You are like a good dose of feel good medicine! Thanks for your kind witty supportive comments, I really appreciate it.XXXXXXXXX

[Tina Ruse]

Life is the bitter with the sweet.May you both enjoy many years of sweet now that you have come through the bitter.I love the photo of your parents hands.Does not make me sad,makes me hopeful that I can love that long and well.Thank you for sharing this with us.

[Penny]

Goodness

Both my in laws have had some form of throat cancer & made full recovery.

[angie]

Flynner is doing really well thank God. He near gave me a heart attack when he started to sing at Nanas birthday, [he is not supposed to sing yet!!!!!] And as for mam and dad , it just goes to show you life goes on, she said to me the other night while looking around at all her family " look what me and yer da started!"

[Tracey]

What a lovely but very sad post....sniff.
Hope you are having a wonderful time at the cottage......Tracey xxx

[Lorraine]

A very poignant post - glad to hear the good news. Are they staples Paul had? If so I've got a similar photo of me in my twenties showing off some staples when I had my spleen removed - LOL - talk about glamourous!

[Twiggy]

Lovely post poppet and he still looks fab. My darling Dad had a heart bypass years ago (it gave him an extra 10 years before he left us, which was a great time for us all and my Mum and Dad packed 30 years of living into that 10 years) and he had a whopping scar up the front of his chest he used to call it his zipper. Battle scars to be proud of I think, on a pair of very brave men.
twiggy x

[Kay Flynn]

You have had a very difficult year......and yet, your positive attitude and sense of humor shine like the sun. Your "love of" and "loyalty to" your family is evident in everything you write. It's obvious that you value each day with Paul. So glad that things are going well. You are A WOMAN OF SUBSTANCE.

Best Wishes,
Kay

[Val]

Thank is such a sad post. Your poor dad and poor Paul.
I'm so glad Paul is on the mend.
Take care of yourselves xx

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