Marcella Welsh

Marcella, my husband's grandmother, died this morning in her sleep. Her health had been declining ever since her son had a stroke. She developed alzheimers and seemed "stuck" in the time immediately following his stroke. She was under a great deal of stress with what seemed like the same day unfolding again and again. She had to sell her house and move into an assisted living residence. Even though she had friends who lived in the same building she rarely spent time with them since everything revolved around her stricken son. Later she was moved to a different community and hated every day of it. Everytime we visited she thought she had just moved there and that her son had had the stroke only a month or so before when in fact it had been years. Jim and Alex saw her at Christmas and she didn't know who they were. It must have been pure hell to be trapped in time like that. I hope she is at peace now.