On a bad day, Jenny forgets to call back customers, abandons paperwork mid-way, gets up to make a cup of tea and forgets what she’s doing. This is because Jenny has vascular dementia.
She is, however, determined to carry on doing what she loves best – selling holidays.
“Is today a good day?,” I ask, when we chat over Zoom on a rainy morning in March. “Well, it’s a Monday,” she laughs, “and that’s never a good day, with or without dementia.”
Refusing to be beaten
A sense of humour, says 71-year-old Jenny, is what keeps her going. That, and the fact she lives in London – “people don’t understand how expensive living in London is until you’ve lived here”.
