No, I’m not going to die soon, not unless I have a dramatic accident but …

But … denial has never helped anybody and I don’t want to take that route. Over the last couple of years my memory has worsened considerably. I forget a lot. The fact that we, as a family, had a lot of stress privately certainly contributed to the situation. But now the stress is gone and it’s not improving, quite the opposite. Alzheimer’s disease runs in the family on my mother’s side. She died from it, her mother died from it, and her maternal grandmother as well…

Next week, I will travel to Athens and see a doctor who is one of the very best specialists in the subject. Hopefully, he will at least be able to give me guidance and possibly medications that will slow down the development of the disease. With the population ageing, especially in the south of Europe, the social cost of this disease is very high and that surely is an incentive for authorities to invest in research aiming at finding a cure for it, or, at least, at means to slow down its onset.

I’m not looking for pity, not even for sympathy … but I want you to know that, maybe, I may not be able to maintain this blog for much longer. 💔

Already, I want to thank all of you who read it, took interest in it and contributed to it with comments and suggestions.

Thank you!🙏

For those wondering about the “post featured image”… this cat is/was Mink. she was a stray that we took inside when we understood that she was about giving birth. She was very young and inexperienced. She hadn’t prepared anything. She gave birth in our house. When her kittens were about 3 months old, she disappeared. Never seen again. Likely, she died that day, likely she was poisoned… Two of her kittens survived. Loulou and Lustucru are now 6 years old and live with us.