Rachel Knight

Help to find a cure for Garrys’ Brain 🧠

Hi all, 

This is a cause close to my heart ❤️ 

My Dad was diagnosed 2 and a half years ago with frontal temporal Dementia…if you want to know how this is Different to other Dementia diagnosis’s Garry will proudly tell you it’s the same one that Bruce Willis has…The Famous kind… that only Famous people get..like his 

mate bruce! 😂🤦🏼‍♀️ so of course my dad has to make such a heartbreaking disease into something rare and one of a kind because god forbid his just like “everybody else” according to dad Bruce calls him quite regularly and dad has to remind Bruce that they just spoke and can he please stop ringing him all the time…however neither of them seem to remember their conversations as they both keep forgetting...

that only slightly sums up my dad and his personality in one! Not even an incurable brain disease can dampen his spirits and he manages to find a positive where others see a negative… his most recent line is “ great I can just say “I forgot or don’t remember”when your mum asks if I took out the bins or when I call… his own daughter and never hear back from him thinking his passed out or fallen over and broken his hip or knocked his head that’s why his not answering or calling back but instead his cackling away eating his 7th banana of the day and has fallen down the YouTube rabbit hole and is watching the kings guards for the 10th time that day or watching people infected with Bot flies get them removed, and let’s not forget his favourite people… Harry and Megan markel…NOT! I’m forever wondering why his yelling at the TV then quickly realises he must be watching her on YouTube… I will not be repeating his words during this time! 😂 He has lost many things over the last year, his license, he had to retire early, his physical strength and daily tasks that we take for granted now need to be either done for him or with support from someone…He’ll tell me off if I don’t mention the thing that bugs him the most… his ability to taste foods..this man would eat 10 pickled chilli garlic cloves by lunch time straight out of the jar and of course always offered us some… “ Good for the colds and flus James you should have some” 🤮 now the smell of meat, onions and garlic make him feel sick so let’s just eat cheap packet soups that you just add water too  and have no nutritional value plus the salt and MSG instead and eat 10 bananas a day hey! YES DAD… that’s so healthy! Great role modeling mate 😉😝 throughout all this my dad has remained strong, witty and humble and still refuses to use the disability sticker in the car as “ there are actual people that need it, I don’t want to take someone’s spot” as his limping to an appointment from 2 blocks away in the pouring rain… that’s just how my dad is! Always puts others first, grateful that his able to walk and do the things he does with a constant reminder to myself, mum and James that we’re not dying, we have all our body parts and to “buck up mate, pull up your socks and get on with it!” His truly inspiring… good days and bad, he’ll hold his head high and turn everything into a joke, a lesson or get me to record him doing something ridiculous just so he can watch himself and gets me to send it to all his contacts… just to bring a smile and laugh to others! Love you Dad your the best mate a girl could have ❤️🫶🏽🥹  if you have read this far… well done! I should probably be donating money to you… do you take Bananas as payment?! We have heaps! 😂