Memory Walk

When I was in university the first time around, my grandfather was diagnosed with alzheimer's disease, and taken into a home, because he believed he was still in the war and my grandmother couldn't take care of him. We all knew he'd been having memory problems for a while before that, but he was in his eighties, and it was just something that was part of him, not something we worried about.

He died not long after he went into the home, so I never saw him when things were really bad, for which I'm grateful, because I get to remember him as my grandfather who knew who I was and was friendly and interested and lived at home with my grandmother, not as a man who had to live in a home and didn't know who I was.

The Alzheimer's Society raises money for research and support around alzheimer's, partly through their annual memory walks. The second annual walks are this year, and I'm walking in the September one in Bristol. I'm hoping to raise £500, which would pay for 5 days of research into a cure. Please, if you have any spare money, think about donating it in support of a very worthwhile cause:

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