Today it has rained when we were awake. The sky was gray, and the sea also. A beautiful Sunday, we slept for a short morning break another two hours. Only yesterday there was this wonderfully warm evening we sat outside for a long time on the balcony. Even today it is warm another 5 degrees higher than in Bamberg. Later I ran
on the beach promenade to Bakery to buy bread. Hardly a tourist in sight, the empty beach chairs. All were traveling somewhere on the island, where much was going on - a flea market in a big barn, a concert in a church, a summer festival in a village. I ran across the promenade, I was warm in my old red jacket, gulls flew low, and came very close to the bushes already hung red rose hips, yellow flowers bloom on the dunes - and I was happy. Despite the clouds. 
My beloved Fehmarn, the island of my fortune. Meanwhile, we were already eleven times for treatment at the other end of the island. Hans Christian making tiny progress, just for me and for the dedicated therapist detectable. His tooth is down a few weeks ago, but never mind. I always say that he should smile so that you can not see it. 
Two weeks ago we held Family Council. Afternoon we had been talking with the therapist about our holiday plans. She thought it would be a huge stress for my husband first trip to Bamberg, and then in the Dolomites. And he should really continue twice a week to get the Craniosacral Therapy, otherwise there would again relapse. Unfortunately, die again and again from brain cells. We have held family councils and have come to the conclusion that it would be best for his health, if we could stay as long as possible here on Fehmarn and continue the therapy. And then I wrote to Armentarola and canceled our vacation planned for September. This is so hard for me because Armentarola is still "our little paradise." The very next morning the answer came from the Wieser family that it regretted if we did not come. But she was looking forward to the next time, maybe in December. And they have even been a therapist for our demand, which can then continue the therapy. More and more we
have been thinking in recent weeks about it, not to move to Fehmarn. What we do not have two residences, the almost 700 km apart from each other? What do we actually still in Bamberg, where are even the good wheelchair seats in the concert hall has been abolished? We were drawn more than six years has been to experience the concerts of the Bamberg Symphony Orchestra at close range can! From our new apartment we had to walk there can!
Here on Fehmarn we experience a wonderful summer, just as seven years ago, when our life has changed ever crucial. At that time I had been promoted for health reasons to retire, and we were able to determine our residence. We moved to Bamberg, with great hopes for a new quality of life. But three years ago began the change that my husband could not walk properly, his condition deteriorated more and more.
experienced in recent weeks, we here a true summer happiness. Every Monday and Thursday afternoon, we drive across the island to the therapist who treated my husband. First it was hot, but not nearly as hot as in southern Germany. Mostly it was "only" 30 degrees, which are well tolerated with the light sea breeze. In contrast to the 38 degrees in Bamberg. We live for weeks in our tiny beach house, have always opened the balcony door and sleep very well.
are in the Bamberg newly built apartment is a modern ventilation system, you must open no longer the windows. It would do no good, because the construction noise at 6 clock starts at the neighboring properties, as my neighbor told me. The balcony is not used during the day because of the heat, because of the noise and dust.
How beautiful it yet here on the south beach where families with children are during the day at the beach, visible to us, but not heard. And towards the evening they play on the big lawn in front of our house. Nice to see how the families play, the children let off steam, then to sleep well and long.
other day evening was suddenly everything as before - I was sitting on the balcony, enjoying the Evening looked down, and the Baltic Sea, and read a good book, my husband looked at a sports broadcast. Finally, after several weeks here on South Beach, began a relaxed and serene holiday feeling, just as before ...
Now we sit in the evening for two on the balcony, watch the seagulls, I look to the sea, the sailing boats coming home, Hans Christian looking toward the Fehmarn bridge, where the colors of the sky from the setting sun. An evening of true peace!
We stay here now, for as long as we like. I started to look for a house with a terrace and garden for us. A few attempts until now was the right thing is not still in the process. I I recently dreamed quite intense - my man is lying on a couch in the garden under apple trees, I sit with my MacBook next to it and write. I look at our vegetable patch, where I tomatoes, onions and other plant. But the date was bursting of the house tour, we started talking, and now I know: It should not be.
In just one week, our perspective has changed, and tomorrow I will again make an appointment. For some problems, which existed only in my mind, have already been solved. And I also have realized the self-imposed limits. Our decision was more stable, we now know how our lives might look like in the coming years.
The journey between the two residences robs us a lot of energy, time and money. Every time we stay for a lot of money in Hamburg, in a large hotel that is adequately equipped for wheelchair users. And for months we both cry when we go back to Bamberg, wide on the trip. Never on the way to the North, because we are always on the sea, the island, on our tiny apartment. Now I know that the eternal ridiculous traveling circus harms my husband, his health is continually affected a little.
And also my health. For it is hard for me, almost 700 km drive, case packing and inviting, wheelchair inside the car and out again. My husband and back out again. For this, the car on the highway control, do not drive faster than angels can fly protection, as Piggi always says. Nevertheless, go as quickly as possible, then night, strange room, my husband calm, the next morning.
Now I have not even written about our summer happiness. It is a truly wonderful summer here at Fehmarn, my husband is so much better. The climate gets us, the simple food, too. It is a heavenly peace here on the south beach, no matter whether it rains even (rarely) or if the weather is nice (almost always). Actually every day seems at some point the sun. Today. Despite the thick clouds. And when the sky lit up at dusk, we feel it: This summer the happiness in the island. And we want to stay here. Forever.
morning we drive back over the beach avenue to Westermarkelsdorf - across the island, where the corn in the giant fields is now already high. Or simply cut down is where to look then, hundreds of seagulls after something tasty. And in the evening we come home to the southern beach, and we will again enjoy the night sky, usually colored pink, looking forward to the peaceful sleep into which we weigh the screeching of seagulls.
Dr. Beate Forsbach, 8 August 2010
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