While there’s no easy way to get old, anyone who’s ever had a parent or grandparent with dementia knows how difficult and painful it is for a loved one to forget some of the most important parts of their life.
Despite 83-year-old Jean Walter’s progressing dementia, family members could always count on her trusty teddy bear, which was given to her 11 years ago after her husband and soulmate Dennis passed away from lung cancer, to bring her back. When squeezed, the voice box hidden inside would play a recording of Dennis’ voice saying: ‘You’re the best girl in the world for me.’
“I got the teddy bear made for my grandma’s birthday in August 2005 because I wanted to do something nice. We are really close,” 27-year-old granddaughter Abbie Webb explained. “She just cried and cried and cried when I gave it to her. She loved it.”
“It has helped her through so much. She listens to the recording every day, in the mornings,” Abbie said. However, after a while the recording began to fade, and eventually, it stopped altogether. “When it broke she put on a brave face and said, ‘I have had many happy years with it’ but I was distraught and I felt so guilty. It was something we couldn’t get back, with him having passed away 11 years earlier,” Abbie said.
Abbie was determined to get the bear fixed, and finally she found a team that could restore her grandfather’s recording. And when Jean finally got the teddy bear back, she was relieved to be able to hug it again, but was in tears when she was told to squeeze it, and heard her late husband’s voice again.
“With her dementia, she gets quite confused with emotion and sometimes she loses track of things, so I imagined should was just going to say thanks,” Abbie said. “It shocked me and all of my family that she was that taken aback by getting it back.”
Watch the entire video below to see the incredible moment this grandma hears her husband’s voice again.
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