Sheep in the Road

It would appear her only abiding sources of happiness
came with her marriage to Pawel Byk (who died recently
after a brief battle with cancer), and the birth of their
daughter, Ann. Happy memories needed to be cultivated
and re-introduced for them to counter her reminiscences
which dwell almost exclusively on the sad aspects of her life.
Catherine and Pawel, called Kitty and John by family and
friends, pass (and passed) through life leaving, it seems,
only their humanity to remember them by. They are held
with great affection by Ann, who, as their only daughter,
is their one true, supportive, committed, constant and
staunchest ally against anything that gave them reason for
concern.
In any other situation Catherine would have been noones’
fool, but unable to break from the years of enduring
psychological mischief, her circumstances dictated her life,
leaving her with a house-proud fetish – and a duster in
her hand.
Sadly, as time went by, only her Welshness, those friends
gained at the Spiritualist Church and her immediate
family, where she was a great-grandmother, offered her
any solace in what she saw as an increasingly wicked and
alien world.
The final insult awarded to one whose life seemed so full
of life’s back-handers is to suffer the paranoia of an ever
advancing dementia, have to move into a Home, not
know where she is or remember people or conversations
… and have to endure all the resulting corrupted flights of
bewilderment and thought that that implies.
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