‘One day I will not know who I am, but I don’t think about that’: Dementia patient diagnosed at just 48 writes a heartbreaking account about living with the condition

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A mother-of-one who was diagnosed with dementia when she was 48 has opened up about the heartbreaking reality of living with the condition.

Debbie Willcocks, now 53, from Swansea, has lost her independence, job and is even unable to cook on her own since the diagnosis.

She has accepted that one day she will no longer recognise her own daughter as her life has been turned ‘upside down’ by the incurable disorder.

Now, Mrs Willcocks has shared the struggles, fears and small triumphs of living with early onset dementia, which leaves her anxious in public.

Writing in a first-person piece for WalesOnline, she said: ‘One day I will not know who I am, where I am or who is around me but I don’t think about that.

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