Alzheimer Patient Mistaken for a Witch

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A heart breaking story reported by Vanguard Nigeria.

"Mrs. Beatrice Balogun is inconsolable. Dejection has taken over her world. The reason is simple! Her daughter-in-law, Tola, who she single-handedly picked for her only son to marry, has labelled her a witch. Beatrice was full of life until she developed Alzheimer Disease (AD), an irreversible neuro-degenerative type of dementia that damages the brain and slowly destroys memory and thinking skills, and eventually the ability to carry out simple tasks. The tragic thing is that the daughter-in-law has vowed not to see her around her home or have anything to do with her. Beatrice would still have been happy with Tola, if not for the condition which started slowly and grew to a brain disorder, leading to impairment of her reasoning, poor understanding of safety risks, poor decision-making ability and difficulty in speech among others. Today, Beatrice has lost most of her friends who now see her as a witch. Even some of her friends and family members have written her off, concluding that it was her past that caught up with her. Beatrice’s plight worsened when her only son and his wife banished her from their home out of ignorance of the disorder. Abandoned to her fate, she urinates and defecates without knowing. Out of ignorance too, children stone her. And she behaves like a baby at 57. She hallucinates and is incoherent in her speeches..."

Read more at: http://www.vanguardngr.com/2016/10/alzheimer-disorder-patients-mistaken-witches-wizards/"