This post follows on from this one MUM – FROM SCHIZOPHRENIA TO DEMENTIA IN 60 YEARS (click the link to open it in a new window)
So, here goes a life, trashed from her twenties, double trashed from her eighties. Some would say it’s a great thing to
mum and dad June 2017 at the carvery enjoying a nice dessert, how quickly things can change
live until your eighties, but is it really, when you’ve been tormented by mental health issues all your life and then you go and get Vascular Dementia and all sorts of other ailments? I am not her, just her daughter, and I can only see it through my eyes, as she wouldn’t talk about mental illness when compos mentis, and now finds it difficult through her dementia. She cries and says she cannot look forward, and is basically depressed, talking about being ‘laid down’ to rest. I know she won’t live forever now, despite her good physical health throughout her life, because if the brain goes, the physical health goes with it, because of the lack of eating, and how everything slows down. So, tonight, I thought I might write about it. Perhaps cathartic for me, and useful or interesting for my readers. For I am one in millions who will go through this kind of situation in the world.
Mum went into a care home on Sunday, directly from hospital. Dad called 999 Wednesday when mum fell in the lounge in the early hours of the morning (the second of two falls in two weeks), and she went into A&E. Constipation …….Continue reading So here goes a life – mum, dad, myself, mental illness and forward we go in change…
