The saddest goodbye
Posted: 09 May 2014, 07:52Ron Husband, 1925- 2011
Take a look at the cartoons, they are so poignant
When Ron Husband started to forget things - dates, names, where he'd put things - it took a while for his family to realise that this was a different kind of forgetting. In fact, it was just the first sign of the dementia that gradually took him away from them. Now his illustrator son, Tony, has turned their story into a heartbreaking picture book unlike any other. The result is a profoundly poignant account that will strike a chord with so many familes touched by this cruellest of illnesses. Here we proudly publish it in full.
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Take a look at the cartoons, they are so poignant
When Ron Husband started to forget things - dates, names, where he'd put things - it took a while for his family to realise that this was a different kind of forgetting. In fact, it was just the first sign of the dementia that gradually took him away from them. Now his illustrator son, Tony, has turned their story into a heartbreaking picture book unlike any other. The result is a profoundly poignant account that will strike a chord with so many familes touched by this cruellest of illnesses. Here we proudly publish it in full.
Read more: http://www.dailymail.co.uk/health/artic ... z31CdJEVxV
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