'Hearing the official diagnosis was devastating. But just as painful for me was the realization that the signs were there all along—I had just been overlooking them.'
Dr. Mehmet Oz announced some difficult news about his mother's health and explained the missed signs of her battle with Alzheimer's."I recently found out that my mom, Suna, has Alzheimer’s disease. Hearing the official diagnosis was devastating," he wrote in the tweet."But just as painful for me was the realization that the signs were there all along — I had just been overlooking them."Read my mom's story: https://t.co/eOFHrMqwtE #EndAlz pic.twitter.
"It's a chameleon of a disease. It's slippery," he said."It's like a snake in the grass, you can see the grass moving but you can't quite tell what it is. And you don't want to admit it because it's too painful." Oz also wrote an article for his namesake show's site, expanding on his feelings that"the biggest lies are the ones we tell ourselves."
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