A 'feisty' and 'strong' nan from died after a long battle with a rare disease. Her daughter 'sensed things weren't right' before the family discovered she had Alzheimer's which typically comes in a person's 80s, whereas Christina Parnell was only in her 60s when she got her devastating diagnosis.
Christina, known to her loved ones as Tina, from Wallasey, died this summer after an eleven-year battle with Alzheimer's disease.
Tina, who died in June aged 76, was diagnosed with the disease in 2011 after her daughter, Maria, sensed "things weren't right" with her once "feisty" and "confident" mum.
Maria said one of the cruellest things about the disease that took her mum's life was the loss of "dignity" that it caused, making her once "highly functioning" mum more quiet and less confident.
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