Emotional moment couple aged 93 and 91 married for 70 years are reunited in care home after being separated for three months by Covid pandemic
- Roger Bulley, 93, was hospitalised in November after he fell and broke his hip
- His wife, Sadie, 91, was put in a care home while he was being treated
- She was unable to visit Roger because of coronavirus lockdown rules
This is the emotional moment an elderly couple married for 70 years were finally reunited after three months apart due to the coronavirus lockdown rules.
Roger Bulley, 93, was hospitalised in Falmouth back in November after he fell at home and broke his hip.
While he was being treated there his wife, Sadie, 91, was put in the Caprera care home in St Austell, Cornwall, because she suffers with dementia.
She was then unable to visit her husband in hospital due to coronavirus lockdown rules.
Roger Bulley (left), 93, was hospitalised in Falmouth back in November after he fell at home and broke his hip. While he was being treated there his wife, Sadie (right), 91, was put in the Caprera care home in St Austell, Cornwall, as she suffers with dementia
This is the emotional moment an elderly couple married for 70 years were finally reunited (pictured) after three months apart due to the coronavirus lockdown rules
But the pair have now finally been reunited after three months apart – the longest time they have ever been away from each other.
Their son Dave, 67, a retired police officer, said: ‘They were at home in St Austell when dad took a tumble and broke his hip.
‘He was sent to hospital in Falmouth and in the meantime mum was put into a care home in St Austell and she couldn’t go out to see him.
‘They were apart for three months.’
The pair (picture on their wedding day) have now finally been reunited after three months apart – the longest time they have ever been away from each other
Their son Dave, 67, a retired police officer, said: ‘They were at home in St Austell when dad took a tumble and broke his hip’
Roger spent three months in hospital recovering from his operation and learning to walk again.
During that time Dave could only see his dad by talking to him through a window, and he would tell him about Mrs Bulley and how she was doing.
Dave added: ‘When he was better we got him moved into the same care home as mum, then he was in the dining room in a wheelchair and they brought mum down.
‘She was overjoyed, they both were, they’ve been married for 70 years and that’s the longest they’ve been apart.
‘It was heart warming to see them back together again.’