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7th December 2014
01:07pm GMT

“She had to come here and that was the saddest part of me – that I didn’t have a daughter to look after us,” he told TV3. “I used to bring her to the doctor. He told me she was sick, Alzheimer’s.
“I didn’t notice it. She must have had it when she was with me in the house. I didn’t know what it was. They told me she was sick and then I felt sad over that and she had to go into the home,” said Frank who had been living in Palmerstown.
Things continued to get worse for the couple though as Frank, who had been visiting his wife every day through “hail, rain, or snow” fell seriously ill himself and ended up in hospital for five months.
“Five months, and she didn’t know where I was,” he said sadly, adding that after his illness he was no longer as mobile as before and thus couldn’t go to see Mary as often as he would have liked.
Frank moved into the nursing home in order to be with her, and according to family friends, keeps the memories of their life together alive by reminding Mary of major events in their lives including his proposal to her in the Phoenix Park.
“If anything happens, I’d like to go first, not Mary, because if she goes it would break my heart, it really would.
The documentary Home from Home will air on TV3 early next year.
http://youtu.be/FC6biTjEyZw
Video via YouTube/eOnefilms
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