Do you believe in ghosts?
07-26-2011, 07:20 AM
#262
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Yes, We had a young girl living in the closet in my bedroom when I was a teen. She moved to the house next door when we were on a 2 week vacation. They had younger children and heard her on the baby monitor one evening.
Then I bought the house across the street. The husbands first wife had died and was in residence there when he was still living there. They have pictures with her in them. And there was an old man who lived there as well. He would go sit on the bed next to my 2 year old son and watch him sleeping. I had to tell him to go away and leave my son alone. He would wake him up and freak him out.
Then I bought the house across the street. The husbands first wife had died and was in residence there when he was still living there. They have pictures with her in them. And there was an old man who lived there as well. He would go sit on the bed next to my 2 year old son and watch him sleeping. I had to tell him to go away and leave my son alone. He would wake him up and freak him out.
07-26-2011, 07:25 AM
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You might watch him for Demintia, the beginning stages of Alzheimers. My mom went through the same thing in the beginning of hers. she use to say a young boy came into her room and held her feet until she fell alseep then left. I don't know where that came from. But having the hine site now, I see the stages she went through. when needed read the 36 hours day. there is a world of information you might need. Best of luck, please read all you can.
Dawn
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07-26-2011, 07:48 AM
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Originally Posted by Delta
You might watch him for Demintia, the beginning stages of Alzheimers. My mom went through the same thing in the beginning of hers. she use to say a young boy came into her room and held her feet until she fell alseep then left. I don't know where that came from. But having the hine site now, I see the stages she went through. when needed read the 36 hours day. there is a world of information you might need. Best of luck, please read all you can.
Dawn
Steering committee for Alzheimers
Waco Texas
Dawn
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Waco Texas
07-30-2011, 02:01 PM
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Yes I do. Have smelled the distinct smell of my grandawhen I was going through a rough time. Also, as I sat with an elderly woman who was the mother of my neighbour who had collapsed and had been taken to hospital with her husband, a heavy front door opened and closed and I think it was my neighbour Eleanor come to say goodbye to her mum. Eleanor died about the time that night that the door opened.True story.
07-30-2011, 06:21 PM
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Yes I do believe in ghosts! My DMIL made a quilt for her bed when she retired teaching third grade at age 67. She had it on her bed one time when the family was all there for a holiday. Everyone loved it and told her so. She was worried there would be a fight over it when she died so she started at the top of the list of kids to make each one a quilt of their own. She had 9 kids, 8 boys and 1 girl. My DH is the youngest. She made the oldest one his and then asked me to help with the project. I cut blocks and serged the edges for her. She did the candlwicking design on each block. She then sewed them together and stitched 3 inch wide ivory lace over the seams and had them hand quilted. I helped by stitching lace on one quilt and I handquilted her only daughter's quilt. I did something with her for all of them but hers and the fist one for the oldest son. She had to go into a nursing home the last few month of her life. We went to see her just before she made the move and she asked me about my quilting. I told her what I was working on. Then I asked her about hers. She started to cry and said that she would not be able to finish ours, the last one, before she died. I asked her if she would like me to finish it for her. She cried harder and said "Would you?" She sent my DH into the room to get the blocks she had finished and the pattern books for the candwicking and the thread for it. We took it home. She moved to the nursing home and she took a turn for the worse so we spent as much time with her as we could. The quilt had to wait.
About 6 months after we lost her, I placed the blocks on the floor and she had 27 of the 42 embroideried, but one block was missing. I put them away because it was still too soon to work on it. As were were going through her house, we found the lace she had intended to use for our quilt and in her sewing basket was the last partially finished, missing block. I sewed them together and included the partially finished block. I decided not to embroidery the empty blocks but I did hand quilt in a design in each one instead. That way the embroidery was hers alone. On the partially finished block, I quilted a wreath around the embroidery she had done and quilted in the date I finished it for her. She embroideried the date she started on the first block and the date she finished on the last block of each quilt but she was not able to do that for ours.
Getting back to the ghosts, the day I put the quilt on the frame and threaded my heedle and took the first stitches, I felt her in the room with me looking over my shoulder....watching me quilt. I felt her several times, just popping in to see the progress. It took me 14 months to hand quilt the quilt. It was king size and I worked full time so quilting time was a precious thing but I did finally finish it in time for my DH's birthday. I laid it on the floor and I could feel her there again. I had a warm feeling that now she could rest in peace, each of her "children" had a quilt. I named the quilt "A Promise Kept" for 2 reasons, one that she kept her promice to make a quilt for each of her kids and two, because I promised to finish it for her. It is a beautiful quilt, all ivory fabric, embroidery and lace. My DH tells everyone about it and has shown his brothers when they visited.
I think she was there with me to finish this project. She was a wonderful woman and I loved her dearly.
About 6 months after we lost her, I placed the blocks on the floor and she had 27 of the 42 embroideried, but one block was missing. I put them away because it was still too soon to work on it. As were were going through her house, we found the lace she had intended to use for our quilt and in her sewing basket was the last partially finished, missing block. I sewed them together and included the partially finished block. I decided not to embroidery the empty blocks but I did hand quilt in a design in each one instead. That way the embroidery was hers alone. On the partially finished block, I quilted a wreath around the embroidery she had done and quilted in the date I finished it for her. She embroideried the date she started on the first block and the date she finished on the last block of each quilt but she was not able to do that for ours.
Getting back to the ghosts, the day I put the quilt on the frame and threaded my heedle and took the first stitches, I felt her in the room with me looking over my shoulder....watching me quilt. I felt her several times, just popping in to see the progress. It took me 14 months to hand quilt the quilt. It was king size and I worked full time so quilting time was a precious thing but I did finally finish it in time for my DH's birthday. I laid it on the floor and I could feel her there again. I had a warm feeling that now she could rest in peace, each of her "children" had a quilt. I named the quilt "A Promise Kept" for 2 reasons, one that she kept her promice to make a quilt for each of her kids and two, because I promised to finish it for her. It is a beautiful quilt, all ivory fabric, embroidery and lace. My DH tells everyone about it and has shown his brothers when they visited.
I think she was there with me to finish this project. She was a wonderful woman and I loved her dearly.
07-30-2011, 06:29 PM
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I'm a trauma nurse myself and have had patients wake up and talk to people not in the room, arguing they didn't want to go, and I've had patients tell me its ok their family is waiting for them.
I've seen my grandfather right before my dad passed away and then 2 weeks after my dad's passing I saw his sister who passed a few years before dad, I was in bed and someone grabbed my ankle really tight when I sat bolt upright in my bed she stepped to the side and I saw dad. Right before I had my stroke the entire air around me was filled with my grandmother's perfume. So my long answer is yes I truly believe there's others around us.
I've seen my grandfather right before my dad passed away and then 2 weeks after my dad's passing I saw his sister who passed a few years before dad, I was in bed and someone grabbed my ankle really tight when I sat bolt upright in my bed she stepped to the side and I saw dad. Right before I had my stroke the entire air around me was filled with my grandmother's perfume. So my long answer is yes I truly believe there's others around us.
Originally Posted by Ramona Byrd
Yes, my dear Grandma has saved me a couple of times by her voiced comments. She died in 1968, right after my last son was born.
On my DH's last day, in ER, he was in a coma and suddenly woke up and pointed to the side of the room. He counted, pointing, one, two, three, up to nine, then calmly told me that "They are all there waiting for me" then pointed to the right of the room and said that "The rest of them are over there", and then went out again. Nine added up to his parents and brothers who had gone before, and some of his most loved aunts.
When I told the ER nurse, he wasn't surprised.
I had worked with him before so he told me that he saw it often on the last day but no one wanted to hear it so he never said anything except when asked. He said for me to call in the family...he died later that evening.
A couple of days later I was sitting alone in the house and heard him tell me Goodbye, using my pet name only he called me.
On my DH's last day, in ER, he was in a coma and suddenly woke up and pointed to the side of the room. He counted, pointing, one, two, three, up to nine, then calmly told me that "They are all there waiting for me" then pointed to the right of the room and said that "The rest of them are over there", and then went out again. Nine added up to his parents and brothers who had gone before, and some of his most loved aunts.
When I told the ER nurse, he wasn't surprised.
I had worked with him before so he told me that he saw it often on the last day but no one wanted to hear it so he never said anything except when asked. He said for me to call in the family...he died later that evening.
A couple of days later I was sitting alone in the house and heard him tell me Goodbye, using my pet name only he called me.
07-30-2011, 06:31 PM
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Maryb119: that was a beautiful story. So beautiful and touching. Now, I could feel what you were talking about.
Sometimes when I am quilting, especially something new that I have never done before, I honestly think I feel my grandmothers, both of them, putting ideas in my head. The ideas are coming so fast that I can hardly write them down. Just wondering if the ideas are coming from my precious, precious grandmothers. Anyway, that is the thought that enters my mind immediately. Thank you for sharing that touching story. Good for you that you kept your promise. I know she is smiling down at you. :)
Sometimes when I am quilting, especially something new that I have never done before, I honestly think I feel my grandmothers, both of them, putting ideas in my head. The ideas are coming so fast that I can hardly write them down. Just wondering if the ideas are coming from my precious, precious grandmothers. Anyway, that is the thought that enters my mind immediately. Thank you for sharing that touching story. Good for you that you kept your promise. I know she is smiling down at you. :)
07-30-2011, 06:33 PM
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Yes, we lived in a HAUNTED house in a Colorado mining town. I never want to do that again. As far as your dad getting visited, I believe him. I have had many visits myself. Did you ask him what his relative said?
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