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My Journey Through Dementia

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When Jackie was diagnosed with Alzheimer's, the world didn’t fall apart all at once.

It tilted—quietly, strangely—and nothing ever quite stood upright again.

 

At first, we tried to carry on as though life hadn’t changed.

 

But of course it had.

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Over the months and years that followed, we walked a road I never imagined we’d be travelling:

the appointments, the small losses, the unexpected moments of humour, the fear, the tenderness, and the long slow goodbye that dementia brings.

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Click on any of the links below to read my story

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1. The Day of the Diagnosis

2. Telling the Family

3. What We Did Next

4. The Long Middle

5. When Things Got Harder

6. The Final Months

7. The Funeral

8. The Paperwork Mountain

9. Practical Things

10. The Quiet House

11. Identity After Caring

12. Building a New Life

13. What I Wish Someone Had Told Me

 

This isn’t an instruction manual, and I don’t claim to have done everything right.

But it is truthful.

And sometimes, truth told openly is the thing that helps most.

 

Wherever you are in your own story, you are welcome here.

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