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My mum has loved me forever. From the first inkling of morning sickness. To the pain of full term labour. When I kicked and screamed in the supermarket. When I threw my food on the floor.
Slowly, surely bubbles rising. Fate determined, people sighing. Holding breath, sink below. Pressure pushing, don't let go. Pursing lips turning blue, bubbles pass, breathe untrue.
Dear nan Today was so hard for me I wish oh wish you could understand, when I phoned you hearing you in pieces wasn't the intended plan I'm not really sure what hurts more hearing you cry and...
She says I am her sister, I don't know her any more, All my memories gone They are melted on the floor.
#emotion. You left me. Broke my heart. Although you never meant it. You had been doing it from the start. My best friend, my only friend. Left me at age 7. My own grandfather had forgotten me.
Old Charlie shuffled from the care home leaving behind the horrible pall of finality, out into the sunlit grounds full of sweet chestnut and forgotten birdsong.
#household. Your face isn't clear in my head,. I can't even remember things you said,. Yet I've spent countless hours in your arms,. Priceless anticipation, falling for your charms,.
She sits in the corner of the old folks home No one to talk to no one to phone He vists every day, every week But her future now looks comparatively bleak She thought they'd still be holding...
I can see you looking As my mind, it wastes away I can see you crying Wishing I would stay My body is quite healthy But my memories, they seep This disease is taking me And all you do is weep Some...
After talking to a relative of a service user at work I came up with this poem x My mother has dementia It breaks my heart in two, To realize the one you love Can not remember you.
It began quite suddenly. Just little things at first. She'd forget birthdays. Or what she was about to say. The words to a song. Or how to make a sponge. She left doors open. Thinking they were shut.
I know this old lady with alzheimers who Sometimes tells me the most mind-blowing things. like today.
Upon attempting explaining the concept of Alzheimer's (something I've always considered terrifying, and my grandad was diagnosed with) to my Seven year cousin I found myself astounded but also...
It was approximately 8.30 a.m. on a busy morning when an elderly gentleman in his eighties arrived to have stitches removed from his thumb.