Panorama – Living With Dementia: Chris’s Story
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(Dementia Just Ain’t) Sexy: Let’s Get Real
(Dementia Just Ain’t) Sexy: Let’s Get Real
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From my good friend Ming Ho xxx👏🏽👏🏽👏🏽
Living with Dementia – Chris’s Story – Video Dailymotion
Watch Living with Dementia – Chris’s Story by communityvoicehealth on Dailymotion here
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Life is for living !
I used to laugh, live and dream ,
Idle summer days, beer and wine.
Children playing,and enjoying my years .
Family, friends and the love of my life,
Memories in the making,
Pictures of the past
I used to be normal just like you,
I loved, laughed ,and dreamed ,too.
The darkness it came and it killed my life,
Despite the love of my family ,and the love of my wife
I slowly sank into my shell
Only surfacing for a short while, feeling like hell,
Fighting and shouting, never giving up !
whilst drinking from, my dementia cup
© chrisroberts
Life is for living !
I used to laugh, live and dream ,
Idle summer days, beer and wine.
Children playing,and enjoying my years .
Family, friends and the love of my life,
Memories in the making,
Pictures of the past
I used to be normal just like you,
I loved, laughed ,and dreamed ,too.
The darkness it came and it killed my life,
Despite the love of my family ,and the love of my wife
I slowly sank into my shell
Only surfacing for a short while, feeling like hell,
Fighting and shouting, never giving up !
whilst drinking from, my dementia cup
© chrisroberts
“Waiting”
I used to laugh, live and dream ,
Idle summer days, beer and wine.
Children playing,and enjoying my years .
Family, friends and the love of my life,
Memories in the making,
Pictures of the past !
Family, laughter ,and cries of joy ,
Loving and living, tears and frowns .
Clowns and puppets, pretence and fear .
Months and months, year after year !
Ups and downs, round and round,
Loving and living,
Waiting in line.
© chrisroberts.
Memories
Memory is such a precious thing !
you don’t realise how important your memory is until you start to lose it .I don’t mean just forgetting where you put the car keys or where you parked the car this is all part of ageing, all part of natural brain shrinkage. Most of the time all one has to do is stand still, look around and eventually you’ll remember what you wanted to do , or you retrace your steps and you find your car or lost item.
The difference with dementia is that if one should forget something ,that memory is lost forever ! you don’t ever remember . All people seem to do is constantly remind you that you’ve just forgotten . Can you imagine what it’s like to just completely forget where you are ? Or what you’ve done ? Or what you said yesterday or even five minutes ago ! it’s horrific and no sufferer wants constantly reminding or prompting , please 😉😉
“It’s the knowi…
“It’s the knowing ! Even when you forget, you still know ! “
Dementia survivor, so far..... 