It’s amazing how quickly things change. At the start of May I went home for a typical and unremarkable weekend. Mum was quiet but seemed happy and although slow and a bit doddery on her feet we walked to the park and threw her ball around. One night the care lady came while we were […]
We made a donation of £1000 from funds raised in 2016 to support the Alzheimer’s Society campaigning work. They asked us to write a blog for their website explaining why we chose to make this donation, the blog below also features on the Alzheimer’s Society website. We are ‘lucky’ in that Mum is entitled to […]
It’s been years since I’ve cried in front of Mum. My main role when I’m at home is chief cheerer-uper. Her mood is so fragile, and emotional memory so much stronger than factual memory, that any seemingly small upset can linger for ages. It’s impossible to cheer someone up when they can’t remember the reassurance […]
My sister recently happened across some emails written by my mum shortly after her Alzheimer’s diagnosis in 2006. Helen sent them on to me, with a warning not to read them at work. I ignored her and opened them immediately, impatient to read my mum’s words, and ended up crying at my computer, hoping that […]
I finished reading Where Memories Go a few weeks ago now. But the urge to write some of the thoughts it prompted hasn’t passed. So as the train carries me back to one life from the other I have started to put thumbs to screen. I highly recommend Sally Magnusson’s book. She writes so poetically […]