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    Dawn Vance

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    A Christmas Story

    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...

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    Dementia. And Shirley Bassey.

    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...

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    They Don't Tell You These Things...

    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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    Adventures Abroad

    January 24, 2016

    Couch in Cyprus

    January 12, 2016

    Couch to Cyprus

    December 1, 2015

    Google can't tell you how to grieve

    November 12, 2015

    Monday Morning Blues

    October 13, 2015

    Dementia and Discrimination

    June 5, 2015

    A Christmas Story

    December 18, 2014

    Dementia. And Shirley Bassey.

    November 29, 2014

    They Don't Tell You These Things...

    November 10, 2014

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