I won a prize!

Well done Prof, excellent Amazon reviews too. My Mum was diagnosed with early onset Alzheimer's getting on for a couple of years ago, though she's had it for considerably longer. I'll be getting a copy.
 
My mother-in-law works with Alzheimers patients, and about 3 months ago her own mother was diagnosed. Whole family are finding it tough.
Well done Martin on the prize. Will be getting a copy very soon.
 
Finished reading the book now and wanted to add to my previous post. This is a brilliant book. Heart rending and hilarious often at the same time. Very well written. I thoroughly recommend it.
 
I read this the other week and thought it was excellent. Two things particularly struck me: 1. the swine who drank your beer, 2. the lack of support from social service and how your options seemed to be to do everything yourself or place your mother in a care home. My mam used cares, a day centre on Sundays, and respite care in a home before she put her mother in a home, This wasn't without it's problems and my mam was retired but it was a full-time job ensuring the carers were doing what they were meant to be doing and involved a serious and complaint and investigation with the council. I got the feeling from the book that you were basically abandoned by social services and you should been offered more support.
 
I finally got round to buying Martins book, started reading it on Wednesday evening and I really can't put it down, almost finished it. Fantastic book, very well written, Martin you should be very proud of what you have achieved, and especially to recieve that BMA award and great reviews.

And the stories of Bruno eating the baked-beans-on-toast; shaved back end; whole roast beef... those all had me litterally laughing out loud, at each point my wife wondered why a story of a lady with Alzheimers should be so funny.
 
I read it at Xmas. Hilarious and heartrending in equal measure (the Rottweiler sized frozen goose had me laughing out loud) and really made me think about how terrible Alzheimers is.
 
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