Anni Jennings

Beginning

Saturday 3rd Oct In 2023 I started to notice some changes in my Dad. Herb had always been an incredibly independent man. A doer. A musician, and a lover of life. He lived a great life doing what he loved, playing and enjoying music, traveling, reading, watching good films and enjoying the arts. This is a very thin overview pf Dad’s life, but the subtle and not so subtle changes in Dad quickly took all these from him. He was loosing vision and diagnosed with macular degeneration, and I then fought hard through disbelief and a lot of resistance to look into a dementia diagnosis. This was a long and difficult journey, mostly due to a broken medical system, and he wasn’t diagnosed properly until 2025, and by that time he needed nursing care. He was diagnosed with a mixed dementia which included Lewy Body dementia, alzheimers and vascular dementia. I tried to look after Dad at home but with such a significant and rapid decline, plus a child going through her final year of high school, and myself going through peri menopause it proved too much and Dad heartbreakingly moved to care.  Share