As I sit here and look at your peaceful sleeping face, I remember all the good times we had.
It's difficult to let myself get deep in thought as it makes me so upset when I do.
Just looking round the room we are in at the moment makes me have a lump in my throat.
We had such good times together.
Your smile as we walked in to your warm, welcoming, loving home every Sunday.
My much loved Grandma: Sheila Shaw
You loved having us all around to your house, your 'brood' as you called us.
I just keep staring at you, watching your chest move up and down, not knowing when it will do that for the last time.
Life can be so amazing and beautiful, but it can also be selfish and sad.
I know that we all have to die someday, but it's not a thing we like to talk about.
As I sit here in this chair, looking at you sleeping. I don't know what to expect.
I'm a little afraid, but I don't want you to be alone.
It's only when we face these kind of challenges in life, that we just stop and think for a moment, at what our life is like.
Yes, I like anyone else moan about things, but when it comes down to it, we are born into this world with nothing and we leave with nothing.
You are in the very end stages of Alzheimer's, and this is one horrible disease.
Bit by bit, the person I knew and who knew me so well, started to disappear.
That little bug eating away at your brain, is selfishly taking away the grandma I know and love.
How dare it, what right does it have to do that?
How can something so small, have such a massive effect on not only your life, but the life of your loving family around you.
I lean over the bed to talk to you, stroke your hair, hold your hand, and you are asleep.
As I am a need to know person, I try to read about what happens when we die.
I think I'm trying to make sense of it and trying to understand the process.
It's my birthday today.
I'm so pleased to be able to spend it with you.
You have always been in my life, and I love everything about you.
Having to do a big swallow because one minute I'm ok, then the next I cry.
I cry at the thought of you not being here, the thought of not seeing your smiling face, the thought of never going back in time and doing the things I loved to do with you and grandad at your house.
I can see your life fading away, you are different today than you were yesterday.
So many things whizz through my mind, things from the past, the happy times, things now, watching you sleeping and wondering how long we have left with you.
To the immediate future and what is going to happen when you've gone.
Then the distant future and what my life will be like for me and my mum.
Will I be the same as you?
Will I get the same illness?
I've always been scared of dying, obviously the fear of the unknown.
Looking at you now, you look comfortable, serene, at peace in a warm bed, with people to care for you and loved ones at your bedside.
It is now my turn to make precious memories for my children.
If they have as good a memories as I had, then I will have done a good job!
I am very lucky to have been able to spend these last days with you, talking to you about times gone by, and all the lovely memories from my childhood made at your house.
Goodbye my beautiful grandma Shaw.
Time to be back with the love of your life. My grandad is waiting for you.
See you in the morning for a cup of tea and some breakfast.
Rest in peace Sheila Shaw 1932-2013