Heather Wilson Sends Her Best Wishes Poem by Valerie Dohren

How very nice to do such a nice thing for someone else. Just proves how NICE, I think you are., always, S.

So nice of you to have posted this message, Val. I too have been wondering what might have happened to her, though occasionally she has been giving some indirect hint of not being able to be lively on poem hunter! We as a family feel sad about the whole thing and pray for husband's speedy recovery! Let Heather be able to pursue her pet interest of writing poems at the earliest!

My prayers for the speedy recovery & well being of Heather Wilson's husband and best wishes for her own well being. May Almighty's blessings be with her in hour of need. Dear Valerie, many thanks for expressing such concern for a fellow poet. I must confess, I am a poor reader and had not been following Heather Wilson. I stand introduced to her now, thanks once again.

so nice of you Val to relay this message in PH site.We wish a speedy recovery for Heathers husband and may their lives come back to normalcy soon.

So nice of you Valerie to post this message in PH site. We wish speedy recovery for Heathers husband.. Please pass our messages to her...thanks a lot.

Hear! Hear! To Heather Wilson and her husband. Let us hope she does return some day and until then will be in our thoughts. Valerie thank you for letting us know.

Thank you very much for this info. Very kind of you to do so.

My very, very best wishes to Heather and her husband. I just have lost my father after a long disease. I wrote a small poem yesterday. I do not know, but if it can be of any help to Heather, please forward to her. Perhaps others can avoid the mistake I made myself: My dear father, When you were well, I truly loved you Not for what you had or what you gave me But truly for who you were and what you did But then, my dear father, this dementia came I still loved you so much, but more, I loved the one you used to be You forgot what day it was, not once but many times in a few hours Initially I hardly tolerated it, It was hard to accept, harder to respect I still loved the old you, but had so much difficulties even accepting the new you You had problems behaving properly in the supermarket. I thought I still loved you, but I was still loving the old you, father I had so much difficulties accepting the new you You were at home and expressed your longing to go home I could not accept it, did not even ask you where your home was I tried to convince you, you were home already. Oh my father, how I regret that I did not manage to love your new you more. I regret my prejudices of how everything should be I told my self I loved you so much, but I was loving the you, you used to be. Instead of loving you just the way you were, I fretted about what was no longer.

Thanks for the warning. We are here hoping that everything goes well and she comes back to us. A big hug and health.

This was so kind of you to do Val, and to let everyone here know! Also, I pray that all will ease up for her, and she will one day return. I also include her husband in the prayer....and three cheers for her ....and you! Thanks for this thoughtfulness too.