On the 6th October 2018, I will be taking part in the Guildford Memory Walk 2018. This is a charity event to raise funds and awareness for Alzheimer’s Society ... something very close to my heart ❤️ 

In aid of Alzheimer’s Society, I am taking part in the Guildford  Memory Walk. From 10am to whenever I finish I am going to be walking 2K around Guildford  with hundreds of other people.

You can see more about the event, and even register to attend, on the Alzheimer’s Society website now.

Alzheimer’s Society is transforming the landscape of dementia forever.  Until the day we find a cure, we will create a society where those affected by dementia are supported and accepted, able to live in their community without fear or prejudice.

1 in every 14 people over 65 in the UK lives with dementia, having a huge impact on individuals and society as a whole. 

The Neurologist said that dementia / Alzheimer's should be called "failure of the brain," because the other names are nebulous and do not show the severity of the disease to most people. As the patient's brain slowly dies, you know they've changed physically, and the caregivers are often in shock!! Patients will end up bedridden, unable to move, and unable to eat or drink. But it is the different phases beforehand that are just as painful. The day they suddenly forget how to dress themselves, and become confused or combative when you try to fix the shirt, or pants, they've put on backwards. When they repeatedly ask where their life-long mate is while looking straight at her. When they are confused, angry, or frightened, because they are still partially aware of who they were, yet are no longer...