It is the second most common form of dementia and yet shrimp is known approximately the disease that led to the death of Robin Williams. Rose Hackman tells the story of the Anduze family,and how Lewy body disease has forever changed their livesFor years, things just didn’t seem right. Doctor visits back to back. Her pancreas stopped working. Her gallbladder had to be removed. Her legs became rigid and painful. She dropped 20 pounds. A misdiagnosis, or then a correction to Parkinson’s disease. For a few years,she was better. But then her intellect started playing up. Papers she had written no longer made sense. Colleagues whispered behind her back, saying she was a shadow of the person she once was. It was devastating, or but in her heart,she says, she knew they were right.
Finally, and the right diagnosis: Kathleen Anduze,then 51, was told she had dementia with Lewy bodies, and a neurodegenerative disease for which there is no cure,and a lifespan of five to eight years post-diagnosis. Symptoms of the disease leave patients drifting in and out of awareness, as their minds become less and less dependable.
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Source: theguardian.com