Bollocks , RIP to the more gifted member of the python team imo https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/entertainment-arts-51209197
Very very sad news It's a hellish way to go, dementia. Thanks for all the laughs Terry I'll still be celebrating your life's work and laughing until the day I run up the curtain
Lost my wife’s sister to Alzheimer’s a year ago and my wife’s Mother has vascular dementia. Alzheimer’s is a terrible disease - vascular dementia is a ‘nicer’ (I know an oxymoron) illness - but the effect is the same......
You have my sympathy, for your loved ones and yourself. We cared for my Father-In-Law with dementia, in his own home. It was a full time job, 24/7, night's were the worst actually.
No matter who you are, what you've done or achieved , Death is the great leveller .My sympathetic thoughts to all who are caring for someone dear.I have a close relative suffering from motor neurone disease and on the scale of cruelty that has to be up with the worst
My sympathies to you all having to deal with this. As an ageing population (as evident by so many old farts on this forum ) this touches more and more families of course.
About two years ago i came to see my dad who had achieved something he always wanted to - move to the Gower! Only problem was that he knew nothing about it as it was to a home near Three cliffs with a wing for dementia. Anyway they brought my dad into the room and asked him if he knew who I was - he said no. I started talking to him and asked him again, 'Do you know who I am dad?' he shouted ' Who the bloody hell are you calling dad!' - I said 'It's me dad - cliff' he said ' Oh hello boy!' and asked me how I was doing! It was sad in so many ways but I had the great advantage of having left wales 35 years ago and so in my mind I had all of the great memories of when I was a kid and how great it was to bring my daughters over to know him - best night when we took them all down the dogs in fforestfach! - without seeing the bad changes. Now we have my mother in law in the same state - doesn't know who we are when we visit.