Manchester United and Scotland great Dennis Law has been diagnosed with Alzheimer’s and vascular dementia, the 81-year-old said in a statement on Thursday.
Striker Law, who won the Ballon d’Or in 1964 and is third on United’s list of all-time corers behind Bobby Charlton and Wayne Rooney with 237 goals in 404 appearances, said the road ahead was “difficult, demanding, painful”. And was. ever changing.
“I’m at the point where I feel like I want to be open about my condition. I’ve been diagnosed with ‘mixed dementia’, which in my case is more than one type of dementia … Alzheimer’s and vascular dementia ,” Law said on United’s website.
“It’s been an extremely difficult year for everyone and the prolonged separation certainly hasn’t helped.”
Law described the disease as “incredibly challenging” and had seen many friends go through it.
“You hope it doesn’t happen to you, even joke about it ignoring the early signs because you don’t want it to be true,” Law said.
“You get angry, frustrated, confused and then worried, worried for your family, because they are the ones who will deal with it. However, it is time to deal with this head on, sorry for the pun.
“I recognize how my mind is deteriorating and how my memory slips away from me when I don’t want to and how it haunts me in situations that are out of my control.”
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