The first symptoms of the disease appeared just six months before the planned wedding. Becky was acting weird and couldn’t concentrate. She began to exercise obsessively, running 15 kilometers and visiting the gym up to three times a day. “We thought it was because of the stress of the wedding,” her sister Sophie Gilbert told . The family hoped things would calm down after the big day. However, the opposite happened, the woman’s condition continued to deteriorate. She was soon suspended from her job for inappropriate behavior. After numerous pressures from relatives, despite great reluctance, she went for tests.
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At the age of 31, she was diagnosed with a rare form of dementia. “There is emptiness in her eyes”
On August 24, 2016, she received the results. She was diagnosed with frontotemporal dementia, one of the rarest varieties that affects the part of the brain responsible for behavior, problem solving, and emotional control. – We were told that she would live another 5 to 10 years. her sister betrayed. Just four years earlier, their mother’s brother had died of the same disease. He was 50 years old. Although a few months earlier Becky was full of life and passion, soon she had to move to her parents, as she began to require 24-hour care. She stopped showing interest, kept telling the same stories, didn’t answer questions, but made different sounds. Her eyes are empty, glassy. I wonder what’s going on in her head. I just hope she’s happy in her own little world.
There is no cure for frontotemporal dementia. “It’s just the cruelest”
Becky Barletta is one of the youngest dementia patients to be treated by British doctors. “This disease has stripped Becky of her dignity,” her sister said. The family cannot accept the fact that there is no cure for it. They created a campaign to help raise money for the Alzheimer’s Society. – This one destroys your brain. You don’t want to end your life being confused. It’s just the cruelest. We have to find a cure,” Sophie explained.
Source: Gazeta
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