A confidence building day

Two things today boosting the feel-good factors in my life.  First came the YoungDementia UK newsletter promoting a piece I'd written for them which is now on their website https://www.youngdementiauk.org/janes-story-its-not-bad-life?fbclid=IwAR0JtMDUdSojI7TGVRLSp9qpOrWWGq1WVeBVNINb8BPHheBexnINNRAKc30 and their facebook page.  It's very odd reading something you've written several weeks after the event and there were definitely things I'd change but ultimately it tells what my  life was like immediately after diagnosis and how I've got to the (much better) place I'm in now.  So that was first thing this morning and it was closely followed by a meeting with Dawn Parker, Quality Assurance and Performance Lead for the Older Adults division in Lincolnshire NHS.  If you remember, a few weeks ago I was invited to go and talk to the Board about our experience of the diagnosis and the weeks/months following it.  Dawn was the one who invited me and this meeting was a follow up to discuss what could be done across the county to improve the service for those diagnosed with Young Onset Dementia.  This is the NHS and things obviously won't move quickly enough to solve all the issues instantly but I have high hopes of what we're going to be able to do in the long term so fingers crossed it works out.  There were definitely some exciting ideas as well as the boring nuts and bolts that need to be put in place first so looking forward to getting started.  Isn't it curious how, when you feel the interesting part of your life (in my case 'work') has come to an end, something else crops up to take you in a completely different direction?  Life need never be at a standstill.

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