The real hero of this story - as Wright readily admits - is Fay Walker, the woman who has stuck by him with extraordinary tenacity for 21 years.
The pair first knew each other at Sefton High School, but met 27 years later in the late 1980s after a gig at Merimbula RSL.
She nursed him through four years of his life (which he can't remember) when he was bedridden with Korsakoff's psychosis, brain damage that destroys the memory after chronic alcoholism. The disease has various stages, including one where the sufferer reverts back to childhood and sawWright stuck in front of television watching Humphrey B Bear and carrying around a plastic bag filled with sticks. He had to be spoon fed, dressed, bathed, even taken to the toilet. The humiliation was complete.