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'The Story of My Dad and His Dementia' our dear friend Tony Husband the famous cartoonist's book about his father's long slow slide from forgetfulness to dementia is a scary, thoughtful and warm book which has helped tens of thousands of carers and sufferers. When Ron Husband's wife died he threw himself into his watercolour painting, golf club, committee man for the war memorial, playing boogie woogie and blues on the piano and having a pint and a chat in the pub and of course walking his best pal Lossie who always kept loneliness at the door. But then he started forgetting daft things and more important things. He'd go out and leave the door open or lock himself out, leave the tap running and flooding the kitchen, going out in his pyjama bottoms but recalling accurately stories he's long forgotten from his childhood and his wartime experiences. Then he began to distrust anyone, even his family, and guarding his money, getting annoyed and worried at the doctors. Then the results came back. Vascular Dementia. 'The arteries in my brain were clogging up with calcium...and there was nothing they could do.' Then there was the chip pan fire, leaving his home and dog Lossie, going into a warm and comfortable room but something was still missing. Luckily Lossie came to visit and music still gave him his freedom but finally he rarely left his bed as his world was shrinking and mind was shutting down. Here is the heartbreak of the family as every memory of everything and everyone he loved and cherished was wiped away. 60 page softback, with Tony?s poignant cartoon colour illustrations throughout. ALL COPIES SIGNED BY THE AUTHOR.