On tour
May has been holiday time for the last few years and 2017 was no exception. Dad's condition earlier in the year made it difficult to know whether to go away separately or as one big family. As it turned out, shortly after the diagnosis of mixed dementia in February, we booked a cottage in East Sussex for 10 of us, 4 generations of the family from great-grand parents down to the youngest, my son Harry who is just 8 months old. No one knows what the future will bring but most of us accepted that this could well be our last family holiday with all of us involved and could well be dad's last chance at a holiday. I write this now a few weeks after the holiday and I'm still happy that it was the right thing to do, to try to bring us all together. Did every single person have their most amazing holiday ever? Probably not, but hopefully most of us brought something away that we can draw on in the coming months and years. Let's start at the beginning....
