Hi Kiwi,

My Mum was the same as your MiL, but to the extreme. She lost all her memories of her life and family after age 6. It was devastating to us to be written out of her life totally. My Dad, our family (even her younger siblings) and years of travelling and living all around the World meant nothing as she was robbed of it all by this cruellest of diseases.

I am afraid she did not pass peacefully. She suffered hallucinations to which she reacted violently and, despite our best efforts and her wishes when she was well, spent the last years of her life in a Care Home. She was well looked after, but deteriorated from week one as she wasn't thinking for herself anymore.

Thankfully, there is a list of illnesses ready to take me before I reach a dangerous time, my last brain MRI showed lesions but no atrophy or plaque.

Dave.