Nothing: I live in the now.
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You answer as yourself. Nobody on FLAPSS answers as anybody else.
Not feeling old but everyone treating you that way.
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Terry Pratchett
Novelist
When my father was in his terminal year, I discussed death with him. I recall very clearly his relief that the cancer that was taking him was at least allowing him "all his marbles". Dementia in its varied forms is not like cancer. Dad saw the cancer in his pancreas as an invader. But Alzheimer's is me, unwinding, losing trust in myself, a butt of my own jokes and on bad days capable of playing hunt the slipper by myself and losing. You can't battle it, you can't be a plucky "survivor". It steals you from yourself. And I'm 60; that's supposed to be the new 40.
Recorded
Written for the Alzheimer's Society in 2008; reprinted by the Observer in the week of his death, The Guardian, 2008
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Possible dementia.
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Panic and euphoria.
A brilliant hi-tech, low weight tent.
The very first day that I was filming Top Gear, for which I was so unqualified because I’d only ever driven a Fiat Uno. I got into a DB7 Vantage Volante outside the Aston Martin factory, put my foot on the accelerator and bunny-hopped across the gravel because I’d forgotten to take the handbrake off.
The worms get to feast.
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