Olive’s story: living with vascular dementia

so you don't know what you're going to lose next you just have to wait and see oh when I first met Ronnie I was 14 it was through an accident that we actually met I was cycling around Loch Lomond with her brother he got knocked down so the gentleman nicely hit my brother brought Ronnie home to tell my mom all of actually answered the door and she was brushing her hair at the time well she was gorgeous Ronnie is a painter and decorator by trade and he did up my brother's room for them coming home and so I'd stand him watching him do it and then he asked me out and that would say January 4 years passed he noticed my mental arithmetic was starting to go and I was always very very good at mental arithmetic I couldn't remember words I have to explain what the world is and then Ronnie would tell me if it worked I was looking for that's why I thought it was time to go and see the doctor he says well we'll take a scan and then he told me that and vascular dementia well I didn't really know that was a time from my understanding is that your brain and we'll die but not in a specific order so you don't know what you're going to lose next you just have to wait and see an awful lot it does go through your mind is there a time limit to this you're fully gone you know for quite a long time am I going to be feeding her or something soon sometimes I wish that I'm gonna go first when the time comes you know so I wouldn't have to see it enjoy there's always be very good at holding our feelings back but I've known olive too long not to realize that is something that's eating away at her it's not hard doing it it's the dementia and that's you know her fault I mean a lot of people just keep saying well there's no way you've got it and it's not something you can see it's not it's not like a cut tour or something like that so the fact that you've got to explain is difficult because the different types of dementia and really known not well research is so important I don't thinking anything will happen within my future but they may be able to find something that can even slow it down and you've got to have the money for research I don't really think about the future I really don't because I don't know what the teachers gonna hold she just means so much to me I don't know what I would do if she wasn't here that is one question I can't answer I really don't know [Music]

Channel: AlzheimersResearch UK

Views: 63,466

Keywords: Alzheimer's Research UK, Dementia

Id: 9luNs6AvQK8

Length: 3min 48sec (228 seconds)

Published: Tue Nov 12 2019