Reluuna

Hello again followers and who ever else might be reading this!
I'd like to start off with saying oooooohmyyyyyyyygooooooooosh I'm so sorry i haven't been on in *counts* .... too long.
I could go on about reasons but you'd all end up a bored corps sitting on your chair. or wherever you are.

Now I must warn you, this might end up a bit of a rant.
But this subject is just very important to me. So for those who will sit through this, thank you. ♥


I'm not quite sure where to begin so I'll just type and see where this goes.
Without going in too much detail, my dad has been struggling with depression ever since he can imagine. 
Things were alrigt for quite a few years until he started acting very odd. My mom brought him to the hospital where he got scans and the lot.
The doctors stated that they may think it to be lewy body dementia. Now what lewy body dementia is is, of course, a type of dementia. But it's the agressive type.
The doctors told him that dementia itself doesn't kill you. it's the repercussions (if that is the correct word?) But lewy body is deadly and he gave my father 8 to 10 years.
Now i won't have to explain what that did to this family.
His way of dealing with it was doing what he does best. write poetry. So he wrote a good amount and wanted to make a book out of it to raise awareness.
He thought it through and hoped that maybe, if he could somehow get ahold of Susan (the widow of Robin Williams, who also had lewy body) she could help publish the book and get the word out.
Not only did she reply, she said she would gladly help, and absolutely loved my dads work! It helped him give himself a goal. Something to look forward to.
She was absolutely amazing and very kind and even organised a gala in new york and got the word out about my dads poetry.





This is my dads book in the hands of the lovely Susan!
This brought such pride and joy to my father you could not imagine. And his book is even available on a site named lulu. (link will be placed later, just waiting for my mom to reply cause i hounestly can't find it)

My father is still running in and out the hospital for tests and results and the lot. Another test showed that it might not be dementia, but his depression growing more agressive. 
Now as harsh as this may sound, that made me cry with joy. Not because my father has a horrid illness that has gotten worse, but because he wouldn't die within 8 to 10 years. I got to keep my father a bit longer.
But a few weeks ago, he came back from another test and i got a phone call from my mom saying he is most likely in the early stages of lewy body, but that he will get results back from another test in 9 months. (which has thankfully been shortened to 3 I believe) So now his depression really has kicked in hard.

But, depsite all of that, I am without being able to even put it in to proper words, extremely proud of him.
He managed to accomplish that one small thing he truly wanted to do, and didn't want a single cent out of it. Donating it all to the lewy body foundation owned by Susan herself.

My dad has been battling with his health for quite a while now. He suffers from depression along with other complications that go along with it.
But lately he's been acting strange and we found out that he has Lewy body dementia.
My father writes poetry and has been for years. So he wrote quite a lot of poetry about it. 
At some point he even contacted the widow of robin wiliams (he also had lewy body, also she has a fun raising to help with the illness) and she actually agreed to publish his poems in a book.
Now that's where this drawing comes in. My dad asked me to draw the cover of this book which I saw as an absolute honour.
I wished I had practised more to be able to make a much better piece. But to my dad, it was more about it being a family project more than anything.

I will write a little thing about it on my profile along with a photo of Susan (widow of robin williams) holding my dads book.
I'm so very proud of him for having the courage of doing this and helping with awareness.