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I haven't been on a bike in over 35 years and when my daughter told me she was going to do a charity bike ride next year I said I would do it with her.  Little did I know that she was thinking of 300 miles in four days.  But, once I say I am going to do something, I will.  So here I am one crazy BikeVirgin determined to complete this challenge for my mam. 

My mam is beautiful and I love her to the ends of the earth and back.  

A mam: a lady who brings you into the world and cooks, cleans, washes, reads stories, hugs, loves, wipes your tears, teaches you to read, ride a bike (!), swim, share, know right from wrong, cook, how to laugh, how to be happy, how to love, how to succeed in life, how to have good manners, how to be a good mam/dad.  A mam does all that and lots lots more.  

Dementia takes all of that away from young and old. My mam is lucky in one sense - she has had a good life, a wonderful marriage, lots of lovely grandchildren and great grandchildren.  Now dementia has reared it's head and she can't do or remember a lot of those things. She looks and sounds like my mam and still is my mam, sometimes - sometimes she is someone else and it hurts, gut-wrenchingly so.  It is the worst feeling in the world and I just cannot imagine what it would be like for the families of the young sufferers of this vile condition. 

Imagine when dementia strikes when you are young, when you are still learning to be an adult, still learning to be a mam or a dad.  

It does not bear thinking about, we need to help both the sufferers and their families whilst dealing with this condition, or simply find a cure - preventative or restorative. My sore backside is nothing compared to what sufferers and families endure every day, its a small price to pay for me to help provide some comfort or a lifeline to someone enduring this living  nightmare.