Kindness | Me, Martha and Alzheimer's

2017 won’t be great..

Posted on December 30, 2016 Leave a Comment

I do have a choice, and that choice is to walk with her till the end regardless of how hard it will be.

It has been a long time since I put fingers to keyboard in an attempt to write a blog post. It has felt as if I have gone through a war, an emotional war, both sides of my brain at war with my heart. Processing emotions is hard, I don’t know if it is hard […]

When it hurts, it hurts

Posted on February 15, 2016 Leave a Comment

I am hurting. The pain is radiating from my heart and spreading down to the tips of my fingers and toes. It feels as if my hair aches and my finger nails are digging into me. This pain and grief feels familiar, common but also unfamiliar. I have not bathed in grief for a long […]

A life worth living..

Posted on January 9, 2016 Leave a Comment

Dear Katie Hopkins, It has been almost a year since you wrote this (and various other things about dementia); “Dementia sufferers should not be blocking beds. What is the point of life when you no longer know you are living it? Bang me over the head.” I, fortunately, have only just stumbled across your careless […]

Letters to my Mama… part 4

Posted on January 5, 2016 Leave a Comment

Dear Mama, This morning your delusions had the best of you, when I came in to say Hi you were so sad. I sat with you and asked you what was wrong, with your beautiful eyes looking up at me, you whispered ‘I think I have to go away.’ I reassured you that you were […]