Category Dementia

Thoughts on a terrible disease

Mother’s Day

Dear Mum  You didn’t like people making a fuss of you. So you weren’t a big fan of Mother’s Day.  Before it all became what you disdainfully called Americanised, I do remember me and my sister bringing you breakfast in bed.…

Social distancing

Sheila is 85 years old. Sheila has dementia. Shelia lives at Ridgeway Lodge care home. At night she curls herself into ball and sleeps under a single sheet. Like an ammonite in a museum cupboard. Visitors need a PIN number…

Unfinished memories

I’ve just found a notebook in which Sheila May Marshall started writing down her childhood memories. It might be written for my sister and I although not explicitly so. The first entry reads: “Your mother walked eight miles a day…