Dementia: Ex-Wales rugby captain Ryan Jones, 41, 'scared' after brain condition diagnosis
17.07.2022 - 18:41
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dementia". The sportsman has 75 international caps and was also a member of the British and Irish Lions squad that toured New Zealand in 2005. However, he retired from rugby seven years ago and in 2020 stepped down from his post as performance director at the Welsh Rugby Union.
In an interview with the Sunday Times, Ryan - who was awarded an MBE last year - said: "I am really scared because I've got three children and three step-children and I want to be a fantastic dad. "I lived 15 years of my life like a superhero and I'm not. I don't know what the future holds.
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. . I can't train harder, I can't play the referee, I don't know what the rules of the game are anymore.
"Ryan explained that after experiencing depression he began to have short-term memory problems and was becoming forgetful. "It terrifies me because I don't know if, in two years' time, we're sat here and these episodes are a week long, two weeks long or permanent," he said. "That's the fear, that's the bit that never leaves.
"That's the bit I can't shake off. "Every episode I have also leaves a bit of a legacy. "Everything we cancel, every relationship that I poison or don't have time for anymore, just makes it a little bit tougher to cope.
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