Former national team captain Wales rugby Ryan Jones says doctors diagnosed him with dementia.
In 2015, he ended his playing career. After being diagnosed with depression, the athlete began to complain of short-term memory problems and became forgetful. He was diagnosed with probable chronic traumatic encephalopathy in December last year.
“I feel like my world is falling apart. I’m very scared because I have three biological children and three adopted children, and I want to be a fantastic father. I lived 15 years of my life in I’m a superhero and I’m not. I don’t know what the future holds. I just want to live a happy, healthy, normal life. I feel like he was taken away from me. and that I can’t do anything. I can’t train anymore, play the role of referee, I don’t know the rules of the game anymore.
What scares me is that I don’t know if we’ll be sitting here in two years, if the episodes will last a week, two weeks or permanently. This fear never goes away. It’s something I can’t get rid of. I don’t know how to slow it down, stop it, what to do, — quotes the words of 41-year-old Jones Guardian.
Jones made 75 caps for Wales from 2004 to 2014. In 2021 he was awarded an MBE for merit in sport and charity work in Wales.
The Guardian
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