I don't count it a burden whatever
to have to care for her.
I need to do everything,
from the moment she gets up
to the moment she goes to bed,
I do absolutely everything.
I clean her teeth,
I shower, dress, everything.
But it's a privilege,
I count it a great privilege
to care for this one that I have loved
all of these years and continue to love.
This is the year where we will celebrate
our 50th wedding anniversary.
Our stories have been a lovely story.
I first saw her when she was eight years old
and her brother became my best friend.
We grew up together and as we grew up
yeh she was there.
And I knew that she use to stare at me when
I was playing footy with her brother and
another friend, and when we use to ride bikes and
she kept staring at me, but I wasn't interested.
I was seventeen she was sixteen, I saw her dolled up,
dressed up and she had an A-line dress on,
and BOOM it was gone.
She was the one for me then, absolutely.
When we first started dating,
I used to ride my bike from where I lived
to where she was,
and that was about 5km on a Saturday afternoon
because it was the only chance we had to get together.
and it was hair wash day for her.
And she used a special cream in her hair for shampoo
and I can still smell it,
because that smell was so particular, so nice.
It was just absolutely special.
We had a bike
I used to ride everywhere on my bike and
then Glad had a bike as well
and we put a baby chair on the front of her bike
and so we carried our babies around
on the bike with her as well.
So bikes have been part of our lives,
and I guess that has something to do with us now.
Round about 2004-5 I began to notice
that there were things going wrong.
She was finally diagnosed with the
horrible disease of Alzheimer's.
Having lived overseas I knew that with a bike
you could do lots of things
so I had a bike made, a bike chair made.
We take it to the beach and ride along beside the beach.
And as we do that we see lots of people,
a lot of people come and talk to us
because it's a unique thing
nobody else has a bike chair quite like that one.
I am determined to care for her every need,
every need.
You see God has loved us so unconditionally
and I understand that God has put his love
in my heart.
And because I realise how much God has loved me
that's how I too can love my lovely wife.
She has done so much for me
over all of these years.
Now she can't but I can,
and I can return her love.
And it's a love that well to me
means I can do everything for her.
She's my Princess and I am her William
and I wouldn't have it any other way.
Would you have it any other way?
No. No not at all .
We love each other.