#alzheimers society
The main reason why I’m doing this challenge for this particular charity is because my grandad has dementia and like many others, it’s been tough not being able to see him during the pandemic and it’s harder for him too. The last time I saw him we were at the back end of their house fully masked and keeping our distance, he was happy to see us even though he wasn’t sure why we couldn’t go near him or why we have to keep our masks on.
When he got up to go make a cup of tea that’s where it hit me hard because he struggled to remember how to do it, even though it’s the most simplest of tasks he still can’t place or think of what to use or how to use certain things, just for a cup of tea and we so badly wanted to help him but we couldn’t because he had to figure it out with little help and we of course couldn’t go near him due to covid rules.
When it got to tougher rules of lockdown and we couldn’t go to see them like last time I got worried because with less visiting leads to him slowly not being able to remember who we are to him and it has happened from time to time which does get me but you do start to get used to it, right now he knows that I’m Jenny but can’t quite pin point who I am to him as I’m his granddaughter and I just get worried that one day he will not remember who I am at all because of covid rules of not being able to see him as much as we used to.
This is my own experience of having someone I know who has dementia and of course there are loads of people out there experience much worse than mine I’m not comparing at all. But seeing it with my own eyes and experiencing it has made me to this decision to do this challenge and yeah ok it’s not climbing kilimanjaro but it’s something to help fund for this brilliant charity to help people with dementia and those who care for them.
If you can donate click on the link, doesn’t matter how much it is, it will help those in need.
If you can’t that’s absolutely fine as I know financially it’s tough but I’ll only ask if you can spread the word instead thankyou.
