‘This is the saddest photo I have ever taken,’ writes girl whose grandparents are forced to live apart

Wolfram Gottschalk and his wife Anita cry every time they see each

They had been together for 62 years before they were forced to live separate lives in different nursing homes in Surrey, Canada. Wolfram Gottschalk and his wife Anita cry every time they see each other because they can’t be under the same roof at the moment.

Their granddaughter Ashley Bartyik shared their struggle to be together on Facebook and her post has garnered massive support. She narrates that 83-year-old Wolfram and 81-year-old Anita reside in separate health care facilities in Surrey; he is at Yale Road and she is at Morgan Heights for the past eight months.

To make matters worse, she says that the grandfather has been diagnosed with Lymphoma, a form of cancer which makes it more important for the two to spend time together. In her post, she claims that he is suffering from dementia at the same time and becoming increasingly forgetful but his memory of her grandmother is intact. “We are afraid however that if they are living apart much longer, his memory of her won’t stay,” she writes, due to which, they have to make her meet him every two days after travelling for 30 minutes.