'Just like Fiona Phillips, my mother had dementia - she suffered brain fog in her 60s'
A grief-stricken Manchester woman has recounted her shock at how her mum was diagnosed with Alzheimer’s in her 60s after suffering brain fog.
Janet's initial symptoms, just like in Fiona's case, included brain fog. She couldn't remember her debit card PIN and struggled with administration in her role as a teacher at a school for children with special educational needs. And, at just 60, the mum of three was eventually diagnosed with young-onset Alzheimer’s disease.
While Alzheimer’s disease crippled Fiona's grandparents, mother, father and uncle, no one in Janet's family had been diagnosed with it before - or after - she was in 2010. Unfortunately, her decline has been considerable since - so much so she had to quit her job and, in 2017, her family made the tough decision for her to move to a care home in Reading, Berkshire, where's she's been bedbound in recent years.
Emily shares her optimism, albeit tainted by her difficult memories of seeing the disease eat away at her mother over a cruel 13-year period. "But I am hopeful. I think what's happened with COVID has given me a bit of hope. If you have the best minds on the case, you can get a cure out for stuff pretty quickly."
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