The Alzheimer’s Miasma
by Barry A G Pankhurst
People who have the illness of 'Dementia' have a saying. 'When you know a person who has dementia, you only know one person that has dementia', since it's a condition that can affect people in so many different ways through its course of decline. I hope that by reading my poems it will give you a wider insight as to how this illness can affect people and their families as I've tried to write the verses from both perspectives. So now take a poetic journey along my Alzheimer's path and try to capture all the fears, confusions and apprehensions that people with this illness can experience every day of their diminishing life.
ABOUT THE AUTHOR
I am a British subject that now resides in Indonesia but regrettably there is no Alzheimer's Society within our area to support me or my wife, which made me realize I had to motivate myself to keep my brain active to forestall advance of the illness. Then something strange started to happen in my brain as whatever I wrote was coming to me in verse which has resulted in this book. It's now five years since I was first told that I have Alzheimer's; to be told you have this devastating illness comes as a great shock to the person and family since it means a complete change of life style...
(2010, paperback, 66 pages)
People who have the illness of 'Dementia' have a saying. 'When you know a person who has dementia, you only know one person that has dementia', since it's a condition that can affect people in so many different ways through its course of decline. I hope that by reading my poems it will give you a wider insight as to how this illness can affect people and their families as I've tried to write the verses from both perspectives. So now take a poetic journey along my Alzheimer's path and try to capture all the fears, confusions and apprehensions that people with this illness can experience every day of their diminishing life.
ABOUT THE AUTHOR
I am a British subject that now resides in Indonesia but regrettably there is no Alzheimer's Society within our area to support me or my wife, which made me realize I had to motivate myself to keep my brain active to forestall advance of the illness. Then something strange started to happen in my brain as whatever I wrote was coming to me in verse which has resulted in this book. It's now five years since I was first told that I have Alzheimer's; to be told you have this devastating illness comes as a great shock to the person and family since it means a complete change of life style...
(2010, paperback, 66 pages)
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