A Scots boy was diagnosed with dementia when he was just six - after displaying similar symptoms to his 80-year-old great uncle who was battling the same disease.
Kayden Traynor, from Edinburgh, was active and healthy when he began suffering from memory loss, seizures and his mobility skills and eyesight began to deteriorate.
Worried mum Valerie Traynor, 34, noticed that his symptoms were similar to those of her 80-year-old uncle George who had been diagnosed with dementia a few years earlier.Kayden was eventually diagnosed with Batten's Disease, a rare, genetic, life limiting form of childhood dementia which also robs children of their eyesight, speech and ability to move.Now he's 13, Kayden has already forgotten how to say 'mummy', referring to his mum as Val instead and is mostly confined to a wheelchair.However his mum says the family remain positive and are learning to take each day - and each hour - as they come.
Valerie said: "When dementia was mentioned, it's hard to describe how you feel. "When you're given a diagnosis and told everything at once, you just think 'what do I do with this and where do I go with this?'."I had to process it and break it down.
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