Newsreader and presenter Alastair Stewart has shared the symptoms which first made him realise “something up there” wasn’t right as he revealed he is battling early onset vascular dementia.
Mr Stewart told GB News presenter Camilla Tominey that he had started to feel “a bit discombobulated”.
He said: “I wasn’t becoming forgetful, but things like doing up your shoelaces properly, making sure the tie was straight, and remembering the call time for your programme.”
“I then decided at my age that I might have something wrong up here. I told him my doctor I was worried I might have early onset dementia.”
Mr Stewart told GB News presenter Camilla Tominey that he had started to feel “a bit discombobulated”.
He said: “I wasn’t becoming forgetful, but things like doing up your shoelaces properly, making sure the tie was straight, and remembering the call time for your programme.”
“I then decided at my age that I might have something wrong up here. I told him my doctor I was worried I might have early onset dementia.”
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00:00 things like doing up your shoelaces properly, that's how I wear these lovely moccasins now,
00:04 making sure your tie was straight, remembering that the call time for your program is
00:09 four o'clock and not five o'clock, not turning up early or late and stuff like that.
00:13 And I then decided at my ripe old age of late 50s, early 60s, that I might have something wrong up
00:22 here. So I went to see my GP, he's brilliant, and I said, "Look, I'm really worried that I might have
00:28 dementia, early onset dementia." And I had a scan and then it was like a scene from Casualty
00:34 or Emergency Ward 10 because the results came back and I had indeed had a series of minor strokes.