Today is the 8th anniversary of the passing of my BiL, a remarkable chap, 28 years my senior, who put himself through University and was a scientist and inventor in the field of diving. He was, without doubt the most brilliant and the most annoying person I have ever met, a keen Oscar Wilde and Dylan Thomas fan and polymath.... I recall him chatting away with a Norman farmer without a traceof hestiation or accent.... and me having just passed my A Level French struggling to keep up..... I knew he had met Cousteau and now I realised how easily that happened....
However, he developed vascular dementia... and in the next years it robbed him of everything, his intellect, his speech, his memory and his dignity. As he moved far away, I was spared the grief of seeing him in his final decline, but I miss the challenge of his company. Like Alzheimers, Vascular Dementia is my nightmare, it is incurable and the effects are irreversible... it is the thief of everything that makes us what we are.
I found the attached and it is a poignant view of life from one who is "slipping away". Anyone who has been affected by dementia will know exactly what the singer is saying, listen it through.....
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zRRcJNvKqH8
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