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4th October 2023 12:04:12 PM
2 mins readBy: Chris Kodo
Emma Heming admitted to feeling extreme anxiety when she initially learned about her husband Bruce Willis' symptoms as he continues to contend with dementia. She has been providing care for the "Die Hard" actor since his diagnosis of aphasia, a condition affecting language processing and communication, in March 2022.
By February, Willis' condition had deteriorated to Frontotemporal dementia, which can lead to reduced mobility, rigidity, balance issues, and alterations in behavior or speech.
“I didn’t know where to go, what to look up, I’m looking things up and it’s freaking me out,” Heming said on Sunday’s episode of her “Make Time To Connect” YouTube series.
“There wasn’t a lot [of information about FTD] but you guys popped up,” she told the “Remember Me” podcast’s founders Maria Kent Beers and Rachael Martinez.
“I started listening and I felt like, ‘Oh my gosh I’m so grateful to hear other people’s stories.'”
Heming last month admitted that it’s “hard to know” whether the actor is aware of his condition and deteriorating health.
“Dementia is hard,” she said on the “Today” show. “It’s hard on the person diagnosed, it’s also hard on the family. And that is no different for Bruce, or myself, or our girls. When they say this is a family disease, it really is.”
Heming, who proudly calls herself Willis’ “care partner,” said learning of her husband’s diagnosis “was the blessing and the curse.”
“To finally understand what was happening, so that I could be into the acceptance of what is. It doesn’t make it any less painful, but just being … in the know of what is happening to Bruce makes it a little easier.”
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