To the best Nana a girl could dream of.
I often told people ‘she keeps me on my toes’ when they asked after her and in her later years and she truly did, dementia comes with a lot of work, paper, physical and mental.
Seeing the person you love so dearly become a fraction of themselves is something you can only really comprehend once you’ve been through it, but my god was it worth it to be so close to her in the moments that she needed me.
I don’t regret a single one of the late nights I’ve worked because I’d popped in for a quick drink on a lunch break and found myself still there 4 hours later, a cake gone between us and a few lattes down.
I don’t regret the countless times we had the same conversation “does Isla like school, what time does she come out?”
I don’t regret a single moment spent in the shadow of a woman who taught me to never do anything I don’t want to, to always appreciate a man in uniform and to carry lippy always (because you never know who you’re going to meet).
I only regret that there wasn’t more time. More moments. More tight squeezes goodbye. Because this goodbye is our last and this time I know I won’t turn around to her waving at the door and blowing me a kiss. Each time I told her I had to go she’d say ‘oh you’re not leaving me are you darling I’ll be all lonely without you” it feels lonely without you too Nan but as I always said ‘you’ll see me again before you know it’. Love you always xx
Thank you all for the support you have shown us as a family and for the donations towards Dementia UK. With their support families everywhere are able to receive support through one of the toughest battles they will face.
Bryony
29/08/2025
