"Personally, I'd eat the arse out of a dead mole if it offered a fighting chance."
So I was reading this article about Terry Pratchett being angry when he was diagnosed with Alzheimer's. And I was doing fine, you know, I mean, I already knew he had it, and I was doing pretty good taking his advice about remembering that he's not dead yet. And then I came to this part:
He added that he has given up his driving licence for safety reasons.
"I realised that I probably had to work harder at driving safely, that's the best way I could put it," he said.
He then explained to Britton and stand-in presenter Eamonn Holmes how the first signs of the illness has already started to affect him.
"It's weird stuff like I can look for my mobile phone on the desk, and not see my mobile phone. Then I'd say, 'where's my mobile phone I put it down, ah there it is'.
"If you can't see your mobile phone, you can't see the girl on the crossing," he said.
And now I just want to cry. For him, because he's so awesome, and he made the right decision, and it sucks that he had to. And because I know people who are, like he is, "scrabbling to stay ahead long enough to be there when the cure comes along" for whatever illness they or their loved one has. Anyway, just: *blub*
He added that he has given up his driving licence for safety reasons.
"I realised that I probably had to work harder at driving safely, that's the best way I could put it," he said.
He then explained to Britton and stand-in presenter Eamonn Holmes how the first signs of the illness has already started to affect him.
"It's weird stuff like I can look for my mobile phone on the desk, and not see my mobile phone. Then I'd say, 'where's my mobile phone I put it down, ah there it is'.
"If you can't see your mobile phone, you can't see the girl on the crossing," he said.
And now I just want to cry. For him, because he's so awesome, and he made the right decision, and it sucks that he had to. And because I know people who are, like he is, "scrabbling to stay ahead long enough to be there when the cure comes along" for whatever illness they or their loved one has. Anyway, just: *blub*