A mum discovered her baby boy had a "ticking time bomb" inside him just days after returning from a family Haven holiday.
24.04.2023 - 07:09 / manchestereveningnews.co.uk
It was the Christmas before Covid struck when Jeff came to terms with it – he could no longer look after his wife by himself. The retired clinical scientist, who had worked for the NHS, became a carer for his wife, Teresa, after she was diagnosed with dementia in 2014 at the age of 66.
Her symptoms had worsened and the situation had become more challenging in the years that followed. It led to the Seneviratne family deciding it would be best for Teresa to live in a care home where she would receive the attention she needed while Jeff could visit regularly and spend more quality time with her.
Two days before the national lockdown began in March 2020, Teresa moved from her Didsbury house into a care home in south Manchester. The 71-year-old died 10 days later.
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"It was a really terrible time," Jeff recalls, speaking of the difficulty in arranging a funeral with the tight restrictions which were in place during the pandemic. The couple, who lived in south Manchester since the seventies, had been through a lot together – but Jeff considers himself lucky compared to others.
Retiring around the same time Teresa was diagnosed with dementia, Jeff says his caring duties were still 'light' when he discovered that he had bowel cancer two years later. Having had the all clear now after undergoing surgery twice with some chemotherapy in between, Jeff says the care he received from the NHS while he had cancer is incomparable to his wife's experience of dementia.
The couple - who founded the Didsbury Beer Festival - first spotted the signs of dementia some time before Teresa's diagnosis. In 2012, she saw a doctor to discuss the memory problems she had but the
A mum discovered her baby boy had a "ticking time bomb" inside him just days after returning from a family Haven holiday.
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