As he f ights for research

always so sharp and on the ball. She always ys had a lot to say. It was s nothing that went t through our minds.

“We knew at some e point our age differrence would come into o play, that was inevi- table but never did I ever believe it would be to do with her brain.” .”

But there is no o bucket list f or r Barbara and Scott, tt, and instead the couple ple intend to cherish the e life they have built uilt together.

Scott said: “In 25 5 years we have had an incredible credible life together, and all l I really want now is for her to be as comfortable and relax relaxed as possible and to feel as safe as possible possib and if that means us being at home a lo lot of the time.”

Scott s says he feels helpless on Barba Barbara’s bad days. “I hate seei seeing her when she is confused and upset,” he says. “It i is heartbreaking to be helpless and to wa watch the person you yo love suffer. “You want to reach inside and make it all right but the heartbreaking thing is you can’t. You are helpless.”

Sc Scott despairs of the funding for Alz Alzheimer’s research.

H He says: “It gets a sixth of what can cancer research gets even though it is such a huge problem. I am not a political beast so I am not pointing the finger at any one government but politicians in general need to be talking much more about this and doing a lot more.” Scott only started running in October and says he thinks of Barbara when he’s left exhausted.

He adds: “The heartbreaking thing is a cure is possible. It will be too late for Barbara but if others are spared what we are experiencing then how amazing that would be.”