Tuesday, November 6, 2012

POWER OF LOVE

KEE@FSWMAG.COM
TRUE LOVE KNOWS NO LIMITS. TIME HAS NO EFFECT AND THE RAVAGES AND DECLINE AND DEGRADATION OF THE HUMAN BODY CAN NEVER DAMPEN LOVE.

Love can come at 15  or 50 or 100 years after you were born!


~~The POWER of LOVE ....Is NEVER Too Late ~~

100-yr-old man hooks up with 106-yr-old widow in home



Chen Honghui never thought love would come knocking on an old folks home's door, but across the room there she was—then-96-year-old widow Huang Jiankai. Their eyes met and he was smitten.

Now a decade later, he's 100-years-old and the two lovebirds are acting like a couple of kids, staying close to each other all the time and doing everything together—much to the disapproval of the other 142 retirees.
In fact, Chen and Huang have lost almost all their friends at the home.

But that hasn't stopped the couple from calling themselves life partners for their remaining years, supported and encouraged by the staff and nurses at the home in Lunjiao town of Southern China's Guangdong province.

For Chen, taking care of his old girl and making sure she's happy are his main concerns, while his daily tasks include feeding her and helping her to wash up. "How's breakfast? Enough? Let me cook some noodles for you," said Chen, as Huang complained about the food served by the home.

Chen is so willing to do anything for his girlfriend that he even gets up in the middle of the night to make oat porridge by request or go out to buy her favourite food. "He will feed Huang first before taking his own meal," said healthcare worker Mo Renwu.




When they were younger, Chen was a journalist at a radio station and Huang, whose husband died in the '70s, was a nanny. Neither have children, so they ended up at the government-run home.

"We're old. Marriage is not necessary for us. We're like family members keeping each other company," said Huang, who suffers from memory loss. "I like him. We're best friends for life and we take care of each other forever."

The two initially lived on different floors but moved into a shared room last year after Huang began having difficulties walking. "Seeing this loving couple, I'm so touched, I allowed them to live together. That's the only mixed room here," said Lin Yuyan, the head of the home.

Source: Southern Metropolis Daily


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Terminally ill woman, 64, battling a brain tumour for 18-months marries the love of her life in hospital 

By Claire Bates

A terminally-ill woman who has been battling a brain tumour for 18-months has married the love of her life at the age of 64.

Jean Jamieson, of Spennymoor, County Durham, was diagnosed with the tumour in 2011 and was given just a year to live last May.

But she exceeded doctor’s expectations and tied the knot with long-term partner Ian, also 64, last month.


Family and staff gathered around Jean Jamieson's bedside at the James Cook University Hospital, in Middlesbrough as she married Ian in an emotional civil ceremony
Family and staff gathered around Jean Jamieson's bedside at the James Cook University Hospital, in Middlesbrough as she married Ian in an emotional civil ceremony


Family and staff gathered at the James Cook University Hospital, in Middlesbrough, for the emotional civil ceremony.

Mr Jamieson, a retired Durham Police inspector, said: 'We’d been together for seven years and we’d talked about getting married and then Jean was diagnosed with the cancer.

'I went to visit her on Monday, October 15 and she proposed to me by writing ‘will you marry me’ on the back of a card.


'I had no hesitation in saying yes as we’d always wanted to get married. We decided to get married on the Friday and I had three days to get sorted.

'She wanted to pick her own ring, so I brought in the Argos catalogue and then I had to get the ring and arrange fir special marriage licences.'

He added: 'If she had not asked me to marry her, then I would have asked her. The hospital staff were great and they decorated the ward for us and, although it was a rush, it was all worth it in the end.'


Newlyweds: Jean and Ian have been together for seven years. They had talked about getting married before Jean was diagnosed with cancer
Newlyweds: Jean and Ian have been together for seven years. They had talked about getting married before Jean was diagnosed with cancer


Mr Jamieson, of Meadow Green, was married to June when he first met Jean in the 1970s when she was married to Gordon Young.

The families became friends and when Mr Jamieson divorced and Mr Young died they drifted apart - but a chance meeting brought them together.

Mr Jamieson met one of Mrs Jamieson’s relatives at a Rotary Club of Spennymoor event in 2006 and decided to contact her.

They planned to move in together, but then the former community nurse was diagnosed with cancer.

Between them the couple have four sons - Lee, Peter, Richard and Andrew - and grandchildren Chloe and Ethan.

Mrs Jamieson, who is now being treated in Sedgefield Community Hospital, County Durham, hopes to see the newest member of her family - son Richard and girlfriend Michaela’s baby, who they plan to call Evie Young, when she is born in December.
Elizabeth Price, lead nurse for end-of-life care and bereavement at the hospital, said: 'It’s very rare that we have a wedding on a ward.

'But when a wedding does go ahead the staff always pull out all the stops to make the room look nice and make the day extra special.'
The James Cook University Hospital in Middlesbrough. Lead nurse said weddings were rare but they always pulled out the stops to make the room look nice


The James Cook University Hospital in Middlesbrough. Lead nurse said weddings were rare but they always pulled out the stops to make the room look nice



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