Quotes from Wendy Mitchell

It's sad when the things you continue to do make people question whether you have dementia. They're not inside my brain to hear or see the hallucinations. Would it make them feel better to see me on a foggy day, the type where I curl up under my duvet and hide away from the world? Would that make the disease fit better into the pigeonhole they've allocated it?

That's what Alzheimer's does: it's a thief in the night, stealing precious pictures from our lives while we sleep.

We see, too, how Christopher is at a stage in his disease where he can't remember the word for moon, but it doesn't matter, he knows it's something beautiful in the sky, isn't that enough?

Guilt is hard to live with, but it exists to help us put things right while we still have the chance.