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Your support makes all the difference.I don't know much about my Grandad and I never will. His appearance still lives, but his thoughts are dead and lost, not in the sense that he's dead for ever, a part of him still lives like photographs.
You can see he was a good father and husband, it happens to the best of people. I suppose you're wondering what I'm trying to say, so I'll try to say it clearly: my Grandad has Alzheimer's. It's a bit like losing a part of yourself I think, slowly, and you know it's going to happen, that is the worst part about it. Imagine everything you have ever learnt and been taught to be forgotten. Imagine if you don't remember all your loved ones, you never know where you are, it must be frightening as well as confusing.
My Grandad is Scottish, he was brought up in Scotland in Glasgow. He had a brother named Jim and two loving parents. He spent all of his childhood in Glasgow. And that's when his story has to end. All we have left of my Grandad Tom Scott are memories of him and photographs. I only wish I could have to chance to know him better.
Minnie, 10 years old.
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