I know they have limited time to devote to one storyline, and I know the story was probably successful in profile-raising of AD, but the pace of Mike's decline seemed almost indecent to me in that the speed removed the need to show the absolute despair of carers day after day, week after week, month after month and year after year. It is so difficult to express the torture of watching someone you love decline day after day over a very long period of time. I feel that the storyline didn't show this at all, or only to a very limited extent - for understandable reasons - but distressing for this reason - anyone understand?