Carol Thatcher, the daughter of British former prime minister Margaret Thatcher, wrote in her memoir "A Swim-On Part In The Goldfish Bowl" about her mother's dementia . Some quotes from the book :
" I had always thought of her as ageless, timeless and 100 percent cast-iron damage-proof."
"Whereas previously you never had to say anything to her twice because she'd already filed it away in her formidable memory bank, Mum started asking the same questions over and over again, unaware she was doing so."
Carol Thatcher also wrote of how her mother keeps forgetting that husband died in 2003.
"I had to keep giving her the bad news over and over again. Every time it finally sank in that she had lost her husband of more than 50 years, she'd look at me sadly and say 'Oh' as I struggled to compose myself."
But when a friend asked her mother about Soviet leader Mikhail Gorbachev, "she snapped back into Iron Lady mode and was, utterly engaging."
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