WJG
Registered User
Gosh, but I get tired of the 'living well with dementia' line, as if this is some kind of nice illness I can quietly forget about on a good day. No it isn't. It's horrid. It's robbed me of enjoyment and activity, it's robbed my sons of the person I once was. I've already been told not to be morbid when I point out that my condition is both bound to get worse and will be terminal . I honestly don't understand what's wrong with saying that: it is a fact. Perhaps for too long we've painted Alzheimer's as something vaguely amusing that happens to the doddery old, rather than talked of a physical illness that destroys personalities and lives.