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Singing with my Dad

Feb 11, 2022
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Updated: Feb 11, 2022

My dad lives in a care home in the UK and will be turning 95 in June this year. He has dementia and can't say more than a few odd words now so when I call our conversations are very one-sided. But then he started singing! Most of the time it's hard to understand him but he's communicating with us in his own funny way. I wrote and recorded a little story about my conversations with Dad that was aired on Life Matters on Radio National. Here's a link to the story. Anyone with a family member or friend suffering from this cruel disease will relate to it. Even though he told me a few months ago that he had a sister called Sallie once, I like to think that inside he still knows who I really am...


 
 
 

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