Me

And my 

Alzheimer's

Hello, this is my most recent account of how I first found out how I was suffering from Alzheimer`s (The early onset of) and how it has affected my day to day living and how its deteriorated since despite the help of some wonderful medics and medicine.

I am writing this so all my friends can understand how far I have come with it and hopefully forgive but remember me in the future when the e mails stop. Also to all those who don't know me but  who read it then thank you and I hope it helps if ever you or anybody of your friends/family are touched by this awful disease.

                                              Always smiling

                                                          Norrms

P.S. Please don't pity me just come along for the ride and I will tell you it`s not all doom and gloom!! LOL

The

First Signs.

It would be about nearly two years ago now when I visited my mum in my home town of Bolton in Lancashire and a great time was had (Apparently). Within three weeks of being up there my wife Elaine and I were talking one night when she mentioned it. I honestly thought she was kidding me or "Winding me up "as we say and it wasn't until much discussion was had, and I saw that worried look in her eye, that I thought something might be wrong.

I have suffered from heart failure for the last six years so we kind of put it down to the amount of medication I was taking for that ailment. Was I just kidding myself? Personally, at the time, I didn't think so but looking back now, probably. Over the coming months things used to crop up, only little things like forgetting who had rung up that day, or finding my shoes, on my own !! LOL. Also people and places seemed to fade away into a distant haze as if I had dreamt about most of them but they weren't really real. Believe it or not the penny dropped at a Football match.  Typical!! LOL

Finding Out

I had visited my brother and we had gone to a local football match when, while having a coffee at half time underneath the stadium he turned to me and said something that made my hair stand on end and still does. He explained that while he had been driving down to London the other day he lost all his bearings and didn't know where he was or where he was going. This sounded so familiar but I didn't say anything at the time. He said eventually all came back to him thankfully and he went on his way as normal.