Thanks to Ita Buttrose, AO, OBE, an Australian journalist, businesswoman, television personality and author, and who was also Australia Of The Year in 2013 for inviting me to be interviewed on The Studio. Ita is a true media Icon, an inspiration for all women of all ages, and a woman who I feel lucky enough to call a…
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It was a privilege to be interviewed on ABC Breakfast by Paul Kelly and Ali More, on 10 January 2017 in Melbourne. Almost better than that, was a family friend Jo Sullivan, a sports journalist who works there, who surprised me by escorting me to the studio (I had forgotten he worked there!!)! This is the interview:…
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The loneliness of my grief is sometimes like my private torment, only visible to my heart and soul… I try desperately to hide my tears, to live inside my ‘denial bubble’, but every now and then the pain escapes. It is then that I realise that my eyes are filled with tears, and the indescribable sadness,…
This is a slightly revised and updated list of tips from the one I published here last week with 17 tips. The day after that I also wrote one called My dementia Trumpet call, explaining a little why I’d put together a list in the first place. Of course, there was some angst from a…
In a blog comment this week about me handing things over to my BUB, I responded with this; ‘I have had to give up a couple of things this week, and hand the responsibility over to Pete.’ I felt physically SICK doing this, and incompetent, and guilty having to do so… even though I know he…
Try as I might, I am currently really struggling to convince a group of global researchers on the importance of adding two simple things to a list of possible interventions following a diagnosis of dementia. It has got to the point, I feel discriminated and stigmatised by them, as most in the group generally seem…
Today I appeared at the last day of the dementia hearings as a witness at the Australian Royal Commission into Aged Care. I’m feeling emotionally shattered by this. Unexpectedly so. This was in honour of the 50 million people living with dementia globally and our families. I also dedicated today’s attendance at the Hearing and…
It seems that expert researchers and medical doctors have had it wrong… in fact millions of patients they diagnosed with AD, don’t in fact have it. From an article, New type of dementia identified By Michelle RobertsHealth editor, BBC News online, 30 April 2019. “There’s no doubt that many people who were previously called Alzheimer’s,…
HAVE YOUR SAY IN AUSTRALIA: Consultation on the National Disability Strategy for beyond 2020 The Commonwealth Government is consulting with people with disability about the new national disability strategy which will replace the current one that ends in 2020. It’s all about creating a more inclusive society that enables people with disability to fulfil their…
Life continues to be a roller coaster for almost everyone; I stumbled across this yesterday, and think it’s truly profound.
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