Kris Mees from ‘restaurant misunderstanding’ passed away

Kris Mees from Sint-Katelijne-Waver was a cultural history teacher at the Thomas More Hogeschool in Mechelen and gave lectures on architecture. But a few years ago he suddenly no longer got out of his words and memorizing became difficult. A burnout or depression, they thought. « I was 50, I always worked a lot, it would not be abnormal that I needed a time-out that the barrel was too full. But it didn’t improve, no matter how I rested, » he told the Nieuwsblad in 2021. After a few tests, a lumbar puncture and a scan later it was clear. Kris had Alzheimer’s.

« It was a relief. I immediately cracked a bottle of cava. We finally knew what’s gone. A horrible truth, but the anger and frustration of four years of looking fruitlessly was finally over. I am in my fate. Shit Happens. Of course I think it’s a lot, of course I wonder why I can’t change. » But I can’t change it anymore. ”

In 2022 he participated Restaurant misunderstandinga TV program about people with dementia who get started in a restaurant. He « with great pleasure » did the welcome, VRT writes on their social media channels.