"Fading From Memory" is a journal I kept from 16 July 2006 to 8 September 2009. It deals with the period during which my parents were first diagnosed with, and eventually succumb to, Alzheimer’s disease. The journal accomplishes this by interlacing the daily development of the disease with frequent recollections of earlier, better days. There were good days and bad. I didn't always feel like writing, and there were many times when I stopped. However, whenever I did write, I tried to be honest about what was happening, and what I thought and felt at the time.

After a time, I was surprised and pleased to learn through feedback that others were finding something of value in this journal, and I have therefore decided to leave it online indefinitely. The comments that those others left here are just as valuable, I think.

If you wish to start at the beginning, it is here.

If you prefer to read the story in book form, it is now available from Amazon.

I hope that it gives something of value to you, too.

Mike Pritchard, Sydney, 2011.