General Chat

No worries Dawnie hun, I miss most things!!


Hope you are feeling ok today, love,


Caz xxx

Caz
thank you obviousky missed that bit, makes sense now.

d x

Dawnie,

Shadrack is Laurels babies Godfather,


Caz xxx

Hi Julie,


This storyline has affected me very deeply,


Caz xxx

The saddest thing I have ever seen - I know it is not real - but feels like it XX

can anyone tell me what the relationship with Laurel and Shadrack is please.


Saw the actors on This morning today and they said how well it had been written.

Didnt watch it last night but this lunchtime didnt want the children around seeing me blub

The writers have really treated this subject with great sensitivity, and the acting is superb.

Another great episode tonight.

I defy anyone not to be moved by this storyline.

Elisabeth
xx

Hazel,

very glad about your grandson being ok now.

I guess everything happens for a reason, although it's very often difficult to understand.

We all just have to do our best, take whatever gets thrown at us, & be make sure to be glad of family & friends who help us on our way.

Hopefully the really good times outweigh the not so good, and we learn from it all in the end.

Love, Maria x

Maria,
your right about medical advances today
one of my grandsons had hodgkins when he was about 7/8 yrs old but he's still here and fighting fit
thank goodness
Hazelx

((xxx))
Mau

Hazel don't apologise, you're not rambling.

These things do throw up so many memories and feelings which we usually keep hidden, keep to ourselves.

My brother's death was different too, not cot death, he had leukeamia so my parents watched him become more & more ill before he went.

Whatever way it happens it's so sad & you do try to put blame somewhere - just because what happened doesn't make any sense and it's not fair.

I often think if my brother was a poorly baby in 2008 he'd be able to get better because of medical advances since 1963 when he died - that's just another way of trying to make sense of it.

Sally is so right, it's the loss of all the future, the dreams, the expectations, that's so hard to bear.

It does make me value my family so much, and I had an extra cuddle for my youngest tonight.

But it still leaves me very sad & saying I want my brother back.

Maria x

I dont often cry but i did tonight
the tears were streaming down my face .
The acting was fabulous.
But it brought memories back when i lost my baby
not to cot death, mine was still born in 1961 but the hurt
the emptyness and the feeling of being worthless
blaming my self ,going through it again and again what did i do wrong . of course i didnt do anything wrong it just happened .
sorry ramble over lol
Hazelx

I think we cry, whether it is a book we read, or a drama or a soap which is not real life, because we can put ourselves in that place, we can empathize with the characters, and especially if we have children or grandchildren ourselves, can imagine what utter devastation something like this could bring to a family......

Emmerdale did a good job in portraying the effect it had, not only on the parents, grandparents but also on the friends and wider community.......and how people are dealt with under those circumstances.....

I think Shadrach, the unlikely person who was chosen to be Daniel's Godfather......when he was in the barn, breaking his heart......and saying to Zak.....it is all the hopes and dreams he had for his Godson......all the things he had planned to do with the little boy......that summed it up for me.......

....it is the cessation of all the dreams of the future for the child.....

.....and Ashley, looking out of the hospital window, seeing how other people were going about their everyday lives, whilst theirs lay in tatters......and begging it all to stop, because his life had stopped......I remember the same feeling.......

im so glad i wasn't the only one who shed a tear i know its only a programme but it made me think of my mate who lost her little boy at 11 hours old

it also made me think of how lucky i am to have to healthy children

kirsten x

I didn't stop crying til 9 o'clock.

Cried for all the families who have been through this, and especially for my mum & dad who lost my brother Stephen 1 week before his 3rd birthday.

Never met him - he died 4 years before I came along - but miss him loads & especially on special family occasions OR when something like tonights Emmerdale gives you such a real and immediate view of such a sad loss.

It's one of the reasons why I care about the people on my family tree from generations back.

Never posted here before but came on tonight to distract myself and looked straight away for someone else having mentioned it.

The people on GR are very lovely and caring, knew I wouldn't be the only one with puffy eyes.

Maria x

deliberately missed Emmerdale tonight - don't do sad!!

yes, every time
janet

I walked out the house and went a did a bit shopping to stop myself from crying. Came back to find the OH crying tho. Lynette xx

I was beside myself....
You would have thought that Daniel was my baby.
Allan's sister lost a baby like that about 35 years ago or more, and she still talks about her.
I don't think that I would ever get over it.... but many many devastated couples do.

The acting was AMAZING....

The bit that did me in was.... *my heart is so sore mum.... * nearly destroyed me! what a show.

Deanna X

i couldnt bring myself to watch it
been hiding on here in other room
daughter text me to say same, she went to make tea, she couldnt watch it