December 18, 2014
This will be the fifth Christmas that Mary has had to share with Dementia.
The first Christmas was the one where she couldn’t remember whether she had bought enough snacks for everyone and ended up with six family packs of peanuts. Then she forgot to turn the oven on...
November 29, 2014
My mum doesn’t know who I am.
Sadly, I don’t mean that in a spiritual, angsty kind of way - she literally has no idea who I am. Sometimes I’m one of her sisters. Sometimes I’m a nurse. Sometimes I’m her dead mother. Once I was Shirley Bassey, which made for an int...
November 10, 2014
My mother has had Lewy Body dementia for the past three years. I recently read an article in a newspaper giving advice about how to care for a loved one with dementia. The gist of it was that you have to ‘see past’ the disease, as the person you love is ‘still in the...
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