Our Time to Say Goodbye: A couple's journey through dementia. Cet article n’est pas disponible.Our Time to Say Goodbye: A couple's journey through dementia

In September of 2014, to rid himself of the enormous grief that he experienced after the death of his loving wife of fifty-eight years, 81 year old Ron Freckleton decided he would write an account of the final days of their loving partnership.The essay was intended to circulate between family and friends to help them understand the love this couple had for each other and of the desolate, all consuming sadness that he felt when she passed.Reflecting on the many happy memories that he had related to his Joanie as her life faded away in those final sixty-one hours, Ron experienced a huge cathartic reaction and decided to write of their whole wonderful life together.Ron Freckleton was born in 1933 in Liverpool UK Joan Freckleton (nee Sandison) was born in 1935The couple met in 1954 shortly after Ron completed a three year enlistment in the Royal Air Force.Married in 1956, they had no children.The couple travelled extensively but spent the major portion of their married life in Calgary, Alberta, Canada