Wednesday, 2 July 2014

Wednesday, July 2, 2014.. Guess i should check....

where my wife is?? hmm...yes i answered, but Mac said this as we were leaving the dining room , so he was easily distracted by everyone saying - have a good evening...and this is what we proceeded to do..
It had been such a hot day, so decided to only go to the park at the lake in the evening, - it was just lovely, a cool breeze refreshed us as we sat under a large maple..really appropriate for Canada day...and enjoyed the ambiance there.
As we sat I asked Mac if he remembered past Canada days, and perhaps even May 24th, which used to be such a big day when we were kids..but sadly - no he did nt remember. So we just sat and watched the sun slowly going down, and the people passing by, but soon it was time to return home, Mac trying to figure out just where we were heading, and I let him know - time to head home...well where is home, do you live there??
Well just trying to answer this when a young man about 30, kind of jumped in front of us and said, 'hello old man..put his hand out to shake Mac's hand, well this took us aback...and Mac smiled and shook the guy's hand, and we all kind of laughed..then he said, 'my name is Gary, do you live here? I said well,yes, his name is Mac, and I'm jan...he said, easy to remember..and then his wife came, she was beautiful with sort of chiffon light pants - a tunic in gold and a light green scarf around her head to match her light green kind of Indian clothing...apparently Punjabi in India was where they were from, as he said...We're here five years, we love it, so Happy Canada Day, i said, well Happy canada day to you too.
They then showed us their two boys, playing soccer and having fun,ages 9 and 4..
His wife pointed to her husband and herself, and said, we want to be like you when we are older...and then she took his hand and kind of walked with him ...laughing together...They wanted to know how old we were and told us they lived on 33rd...i said we're on 32nd at Floralies...we moved here last year - we lived in chateauguay, -too far said Gary..too far ..and he said we want to be live to be old like you two...i said well we moved here to have help as my husband has Alzheimers...This took him a bit of time to sink in, but then he looked at the two of us, and said, take care and good luck..his wife said, you two are so happy, we will be like that i hope...
Well we are - in a way - I thought, as we waved goodbye to the couple and continued on our way, but this morning in the Gazette there is a letter from a man who said he wants his body given to science right away, if he ever gets a diagnosis of Alzheimers ...and goes on to talk about the horror of not knowing...i wonder how the woman we met at the A. cafe, felt if she read that..she just had a diagnosis and is so hopeful that shortly thee will be a cure for her...well we'll see in the meantime, i guess i'll let mac check on his wife, and that's me, time to do our laundry...bye.

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