“
She comes back and she leaves.
She makes this sort of sinusoidal movement between confusion and lucidity.
For me, the hardest part is now
”.
Invited in "It starts today" Tuesday, October 4, Thomas Stern gave a moving testimony by evoking his wife
Catherine Laborde
, affected by Lewy body disease.
"
A cocktail between Alzheimer's and Parkinson's
," he describes.
There are motor disorders, language disorders, anxiety attacks, hallucinations.
It's a tough board.
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According to his testimony, the current period would be extremely difficult for the former TF1 weather presenter
.
“
She has entered a phase where she finds it difficult to express herself, that is to say that she understands what is said to her but she has great difficulty in formulating things.
So communication becomes extremely difficult, ”says the writer destabilized by the deterioration of his wife's state of health.
“
The fact that language escapes him completely disorients me.
It's as if I lost part of who I am myself
, ”admits the man who wrote several books with her.
The 74-year-old says she still has the same recognizable voice and
the only weapon against despair
,” he said.
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To Faustine Bollaert's question: “
Do you still feel like her man or do you no longer feel like her helper?
“, Thomas Stern ensures that he has”
never felt his man as much as in the fact of being his helper
“.
“
I had no disposition for this type of dedication.
Until old age, I was selfish and narcissistic.
I never thought I would get into this overtaking mechanism
,” he admits.
Thomas Stern and Catherine Laborde have signed a book released in 2020, Sick love (Plon editions), where they discuss the disease within their couple but also the evolution of their relationship.