Fiona Phillips’ husband makes heartbreaking admission about her Alzheimer’s diagnosis

Fiona Phillips’ husband makes heartbreaking admission about her diagnosisSource: ITV

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00:00She'd love to be here, but she's got anxiety.

00:03She's got a secondary problem that causes her to be in pain a lot.

00:07I mean, a lot of pain, which adds to the confusion.

00:11So it's difficult.

00:12In the book, there's a picture of her at the end of our road.

00:17The most recent picture I took, only a few weeks ago.

00:20And she's looking great, and she's kind of smiling, and she's got her coat on.

00:23And what you don't know is she thought I'd kidnapped her.

00:26Yeah. This was us going out, because you get all sort of delusions,

00:31because you get so kind of worked up.

00:33She keeps saying, I want to go home.

00:35So she doesn't recognise you now, Martin?

00:36No, she does recognise me most of the times.

00:39Doesn't quite know that I'm her husband, but she knows who I am.

00:43But on these occasions, and it's not frequent, but it's every now and then,

00:47she'll want to go home to her parents when I haven't got a heart to say they aren't here.

00:51What do you say?

00:52Well, what you do is you say, let's get our coats on.

00:55Let's get our shoes on.

00:57We go out and go round the block a couple of times and come back in.

01:00And she says, oh, I'm home now.

01:01We go out and go.