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Lady love: How she coped with diabetes, raising two kids and her husband’s young-onset dementia
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A still from the documentary Lady! showing Madam Siti A. caring for her husband Gary Chua. This footage was shot in 2020.
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SINGAPORE – When young-onset dementia robbed Mr Gary Chua of speech, he would hold his wife’s hand or seek her reassuring touch.
Love persists even as a person changes, in his widow’s experience. Madam Siti A. recalls through tears and smiles how she and her husband communicated affection, even though he often forgot her name.
