Originally Posted by
canklecat
Nice. Good opportunity to find something in common to talk about with your friend. Sometimes it helps to ease the grief process to reminisce about the loved one's peaks, successes and things they enjoyed.
That helped me get through grieving over losing my mom in November. She had experienced such a long, gradual and inexorable decline through Alzheimer's that I'd lost sight of how much she had accomplished before then. She was a late bloomer. But she'd also been a lot of fun when she was younger, and took us camping and fishing. It helped to reminisce about those times.
We did talk some about it. She remembered him taking her out for rides. She said he had something or sort of a chair on the back rack she sat in facing towards the rear. Had to be somewhat scary when she was 4 or 5 yrs old, some forty years ago.. Probably not real fond memories, but memories none the less .. We talked about the toe overlap as maybe she rode it as an adolescent and how careful you had to be. Oh and thank you all for the responses, I'll pass this info on to her. I don't think she'll part with it in the near future.