• Guest - w'd love to know what you think about the forum! Take the 2025 Survey »

Tell us a 'memory' if you wish to ?

anna29

anna29

Well-Known Member
Retired Moderator
Messages
4,789
Location
Preston Lancashire
Type of diabetes
Type 2
Treatment type
Insulin
Dislikes
Cruelty to Animals/Children
Liars/Manipulators/Bullying
Here is a Memory Thread .

Tell or share with us a memory about 'anything' if you wish ?
Yes - it can even be a memory related to your Diabetes too .

It can be a happy , sad , mad , bad , joyful , funny memory .
The choice is 'yours' ...

Anna .
 
paul-1976 said:
I want to but it's just too painful to talk about
Click to expand...

Only share - when / if ready and able to . :)

No pressure or expectations here 'okay' paul 1976.

Anna .
 
Oh goodness I have so many, as I'm sure others do to. I wrote about an experience on a another thread and it was when my daughter was a tiny baby. So that has put a very, very special memory in my mind.

I had to have an emergency caesarean, as I was very ill. My new born daughter was in SCBU. One morning, days after the birth there was a knock on the hospital door, a nurse came in and she said 'my daughter is here to see me' I looked at my watch and it was about 6.30am, I thought what is my grown up daughter doing here visiting me at this time. :?: :? The door opened and in came the nurse with a tiny bundle in her arms, she thought I would like to see her, ( it was the very first time I had actually seen her in the flesh) the nurse placed her next to my face on my pillow and said she would be back in 10 minuets. I couldn't believe this tiny red little person was mine, on my pillow, right next to my face. I was looking at her, still not believing she was there, I stroked her head and kissed her tiny face, tears streaming from my eyes ( oh I'm off again :cry: ) then the door opened and the nurse said she had to take her back and put her in a small carrycot pram, I kept saying thank you, and then she was gone. I have never been so happy to see her and thanks to the hospital, because they saved our lives :angel:

RRB
 
Hi All .

Today is my daughters birthday she was born 4.7.1985 .
At 5.17pm - I have always said she came out for her tea .

My parents had an American guy staying with them and he had prayed I would have her on the 4th july.
His prayers were certainly answered :thumbup:

Hubby remembers 'more' than I can about the birth as I was too far gone [whoooozy] to care !

My biggest memory is her baby scent - I used to snuggle her and drown my senses in her baby scent .
Did this with our only granddaughter too . It is the best scent in the world to me .

Lovely story RRB - thanks for sharing it
Precious memories of being a new mummy - meeting your child the first time ever .

Remember my hubby saying he was worn out :shock:
All he had done was hold my hand !!!
Tut - men eh ... :wink:

Anna .
 
I have no children of my own yet, but I remember where I was when each and every one of my 7 nieces and nephews were born (and 1 more on the way!). Holding them all for the first time was incredibly special, and I still value the time we spend together as they grow :)

Ill get my own one day!
 
I remember as I child I went to Cobham hall for a childrens diabetic holiday camp age 9. was the first time away from my parents. I met a wonderful woman who was in charge of my room called sue and she wrote to me for years and was a dear dear confidant as I grew. she got married and I never heard form her again but I do hope that she had her won family and has been happy in life. wish I could remember her name as I would love to tell her what an impact she had on my life.

I still have a china ashtray I bought on that camp - glued together now and I remember buying 1 cal drinks - which were new out then. it was heaven to be allowed a fizzy drink. Back in the days of TAB and Fresco.

I had a friend who's mother always kept a can of tab in the fridge for when I visited- and it was expensive then too.

and my parents when I was 5 in 1974 sent to Harrods for a sugar free easter egg as this was the only place that did them then.

Does anyone remember the diabetic sweets that you used to get which came out of a push packet- like tablets in blackcurrant and lime and orange flavours and you were supposed to suck them. but if you bit they stuck your teeth together. I used to take to school and get the boys to stick their teeth together before register so they couldn't speak - was so funny. nearly pulled a filling out with them. And I loved the ViVIl orange sweets but they were hard to get - everyone had mint or lemon.

anyone else remember these.

I remember both my children being born - my husband had worked about 36 hrs with no sleep due to hypo after hypo and so when I said I needed to go to the hospital as baby wasn't moving again - he asked to stay home and sleep. I cried so he came with me and I left him asleep in the car whilet I went in AGAIN foe a scan. This time headed straight to theatre and they had to wake him up lol. so I always tell people I drove myself to the hospital when I had my son. they think I was in labour lol. :lol: :D
 
Ok I've been sitting here trying to think of a nice memorie to share but I can only remember the bad ones lol I hated both births of my kids mainly because I wasn't aloud to smoke in the delivery rooms and me wanting a fag while she was screaming in agony didn't seem to bother anyone but me *shrug* apart from that, I remember "borrowing" my dads car while he was drunk one night and smashing it up, pffft apparently learning to drive then getting behind the wheel is the better way to go, I remember all the dead people I've had the pleasure of seeing....ermmmmm I remember falling down the stairs and splitting my head open (really cool scars when I get my hair cut) I remember getting kicked out of school, I remember taking too many acid one night and laying in bed till 6am trying to not die, hmmmmmmm this isn't gong well, ahhhh my first bmw! Yah that'll do, on saying that I've had a great life so far...honest, I just can't remember the good bits :) ok ok I'll go and see my GP Monday
 
I remember being on tour in Russia. The water was brown with black bits in and the only bottled water was fizzy. HATE fizzy water! There wasn't any coffee, and all the soft drinks were full fat and $4 for a small bottle. But, vodka was $2 a bottle and so was champagne. :) So, having drunk nothing but vodka and champagne, half and half, for about three weeks, I remember preparing to go on stage. I asked the doctor (we took our own!) how I could stop the room spinning. He gave me another shot of vodka! It worked!

It was an excellent tour, but I also remember my college being a bit unimpressed when we got back and the mother of all hangovers kicked in about a week later!


Sent from the Diabetes Forum App
 
- same tour, going down to the beach at midnight to swim in the Baltic Sea,- in February. Tour doctor arrived with a really big bag. When asked if he'd brought his water wings, he said "no, the defibrillator!" Then he just stood there, in a three piece suit, and watched.

Yes. It was REALLY cold! :)


Sent from the Diabetes Forum App
 
- standing in Red Square at 2am saying "wooooow!" We managed to slip free of our guards for all of about an hour and were loose in Moscow.

They did find us. Probably just as well, men with guns were starting to give us funny looks!

........ Stop me now! Was on tour for years, this could get REALLY boring!!!!!?! :)


Sent from the Diabetes Forum App
 
40 years ago while in Dorset, I suddenly had severe abdominal pain which became quite serious for a few hours. I got to a doctor who confirmed it was not food poison etc; He suggested it was in my mind and my wife was pregnant. No such luck I was not married nor engaged.

A few days later I had a phone call from Scotland asking "where the hell are you" as we have been trying to contact you.
Coincidentally my twin sister gave birth to a baby girl without any pain ( caesarean I think) at the same time I went through that pain thing.

I know, sounds weird but that's what happened.

Roy, :)
 
izzzi said:
40 years ago while in Dorset, I suddenly had severe abdominal pain which became quite serious for a few hours. I got to a doctor who confirmed it was not food poison etc; He suggested it was in my mind and my wife was pregnant. No such luck I was not married nor engaged.

A few days later I had a phone call from Scotland asking "where the hell are you" as we have been trying to contact you.
Coincidentally my twin sister gave birth to a baby girl without any pain ( caesarean I think) at the same time I went through that pain thing.

I know, sounds weird but that's what happened.

Roy, :)
Click to expand...

I have heard about the twin telepathy thingy :)

How you felt your twins pain at the same time 'amazing' .

Thanks for sharing this with us all Roy .

Anna .
 
Apparently Norris mcWhirter felt and 'Knew' something terrible and life changing had happened at the instant his twin brother Ross had been murdered and left this world..I would be fascinated if this very real phenomenon could be unlocked
 
The only other strange thing that happened with my twin was about 35 years ago. I had a feeling My twin sister was crying, I phoned her up to see if she was ok. Yes she was crying because she just failed her driving . Nothing strange has happened since. ( it only seemed to be when were a long distance apart )

Roy, :)
 
Excellent thread with brilliant memories, great idea for a thread too anna.

I'd need to pluck up courage to delve into memories.

I'd a rough time as a young boy, right through into my teens and twenties.
My parents filled me with fear and apprehension which still hang around in the background.
What a legacy parents, even when their gone, can leave their children.

Ah, one thing, I always knew, when word came through informing me my father had died, it would be an overcast murky rainy day.
I was wrong, it was a glorious beautiful summer's day when I happened to be in my kitchen drinking a cool soft drink and looking out to our small garden from our open widow. The scent of flowers wafting in was a joy to behold I said to myself. Then the phone sprang into action destroying the peace and quite (which I always love).
It was my elder sister offering me the news, "that father had gone", it was a short conversation that day.
I sauntered over to the window while taking in the fact he'd finally gone. I decided, as it was such a glorious day, to go for a walk with our little dog. Me better half was at her dear old mum's house.
As me and dog wandered along the paths the breeze was so inviting, it was lovely. I just couldn't get over how beautiful it was that Sunday, I'd been so confident it would all be so different. And you know, without attempting any melodrama, with every step I took the chain links my father had me bound up in slowly began to break and fall with each step I took. Blimey, what a reaction to a death.

But that's the way it was. Sadly, the legacy I was left with still hovers in the background to this day, but to have the chance of relating it has been so beneficial for me.

Anna, thank you for this thread. x

I'm not going to re-read this, so please overlook anything unfathomable.

willie.
 
My first son was born at 23 weeks and was not really viable and so we took the decision to take him off his life support system. My second son was born at 26 weeks, had heart surgery and became blind before he reached the age of '0'. Then, a year later he became more and more ill until, finally, Great Ormond Street diagnosed AIDS due to contaminated 'live' blood given by a gay drug-addict just after he was born. He died at 18 months. My ex-wife then spent her final pregnancy flat on her back in hospital from the 20th week of her pregnancy, and we finally ordered our third son early at 37 weeks as the long wait was doing our heads in. He was born with forceps and with a knot in his umbilical cord but all was OK. He is now 27 and a fitness instructor for the Nuffield Group. Three months after his birth, my ex-wife had a hysterectomy.

It's amazing how one discovers what others are experiencing after such things .. it puts one's own life into perspective.

Apart from that, not a lot has happened really, or at least things I would admit to!! :shock:
 
Back
Top