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    27 January

    Friends I need some help, if you can.

    As I mentioned in my last blog, my family have been telling me that I have begun to forget lots of things, they appear to be very concerned so much so over the past week I have been discussing it with them individually. Apparently these memory laps have been so bad that I have forgotten television programmes or films that we have seen together. I know that I was very upset last week because I had forgotten my wife’s name, as well as getting up during the night and getting into the passenger seat of the car. Roaming around the house at night talking to people, as though I was in a dream state. The most worrying thing is that a couple of weeks ago I had forgotten that my mum was dead, sue told me that I had asked her just before Christmas to get my mum a cardigan. I am now getting very worried as these episodes are apparently getting to be more frequent. I just don’t know what to do. If you are a friend of mine and are reading this can you write to me about things that I have done that seem to be put of character as my pensions welfare officer is visiting this week and Susan wants to raise it as a subject for discussion.

    02 January

    Mortality

    I have been thinking very much about my own ill health and the fact that I wont get better only worse. A friend of mine read me the following bit by Dylan Thomas. What do you think he meant. Emails would be appreciated so I can peruse my own feelings.
     

    “And you, my father, there on the sad height,

    Curse, bless, me now with your fierce tears, I pray.

    Do not go gently into that good night.

    Rage, rage against the dying of the light.”

     

    Dylan Thomas

    “Do not go gently into that good night