Well, I knew it would happen eventually and thought I was prepared but today when visiting my mum at her care home she turned to me and said 'sorry, who are you? I don't know who you are' There have been times when she hasn't remembered my name or I have seen in her eyes that she is searching her memory to remember who I was but today when I arrived I saw her stumbling with her walker up the hallway ahead of me, I called to her but she didn't hear and walked into another residents room and sat down on the bed, I went in and said hello mum! and kissed her and she was all smiles, I helped her walk to the tv room with me and sat her down, turned on the tv and went back to sit with her and that's when she said it, it stopped me in my tracks and I just wanted to cuddle her up and say it's me! your daughter! but I just said my name and she said oh! and then she focused on the tv telling me a man (Philip Schofield) was talking to me and shouldn't I answer him (!). I feel as though I have lost her now, all the time she has recognised me, even though she has been in a care home for the last year and isn't able to be in my every day life, I have still felt connected to her but today I feel as though it's a new phase. Mum is late stage vascular dementia so only end stage to go and I know that's where she's heading now. I miss her so much.