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Paul Lea

was born July 30, 1952. According to the Chinese calendar that was the year of the Golden Dragon. April 28, 1955 he and his sister were taken by the children's aid Society Paul was suffering from malnutrition and Ricketts, at three years old only weighed 28 pounds. Because of his poor health and size he was admitted to Ville Marie for infants in Toronto and in 1956 when his health improved was transferred to the boy’s shelter on Sherburne Street in Toronto. 1957 Paul and his sister were sent to the home of Peter and Mary Lea who agreed to become foster parents. This relationship worked out so well that on March 29 1961 they were legally adopted. July 5, 1963 Paul's adopted father passed away. March 26, 1969 Paul joined the Army as a reservist with the Queens York Rangers until he received an honorable discharge October 6, 1971. In 1972 he left Canada for the first time and traveled to Cleveland to visit a friend and in 1973 traveled to Winnipeg to visit his grandmother. July 1979 Paul traveled to Rotterdam, Holland to visit his girlfriend. While there he saw a lot of Holland, Belgium and the southern parts of the England. September 1, 1984 Paul got married and on November 4,1985 his little girl  Victoria was born. December 28, 2002 Paul travels to Haiti and spent nine days as a missionary. August 2012 Paul has a book published about his experience in Haiti. The title of the book I"s Live or Die the Struggles by the People of Haiti to Survive". December 2008 Paul has a massive stroke which leaves him disabled and unable to work, he does not have any physical disabilities but he does have vascular dementia visual and cognitive deficits. 2013 he becomes a type II diabetic and After 52 years of smoking Paul quits the end of June 2014. This leaves him with a mild case of COPD

January 2016 was Alzheimer's Society awareness month.

The idea was to show that people living with dementia are human beings and still have a place in society still contribute. They can still be a friend or father or husband. All it takes is a little time and a little patience to understand  mental illness. It wasn't too long ago that people had trouble understanding and accepting cancer.

January 18, 2016 Paul did an interview with Robin Roberts from Yahoo.

Still here

You can read it at this link

https://ca.style.yahoo.com/post/137564988230/still-me-what-its-actually-like-living-with

Paul did another interview on the same subject with Stella Acquisto

http://www.citynews.ca/2016/01/07/powerful-alzheimers-ad-campaign-goes-viral/

Paul also did an interview with Pauline Chan of CTV on the subject of doctor assisted

http://toronto.ctvnews.ca/who-makes-the-decision-patient-considers-doctor-assisted-death-1.2794933