Nazan Eckes
She dedicates heartbreaking words to her father
Nazan Eckes is currently with her parents in Turkey.
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Nazan Eckes’ father suffers from Alzheimer’s. The presenter describes how bad things are for him with heartbreaking words.
At the beginning of the year, TV presenter Nazan Eckes (45) took a break from her job so that she can take care of her father, who has Alzheimer’s disease. Although she returned in April of this year in front of the camera of the RTL magazine “Extra”. In a new post on Instagram she now makes it painfully clear how a loved one is torn away from you bit by bit by the illness.
“These are my parents,” writes Eckes about a series of pictures in the social network that shows her sitting on a bench next to her mother and father. The days together, which the 45-year-old from Cologne can spend with them in Turkey, “are worth gold” because: “That will probably be the last summer when my father even half recognized me. He has known my name for a long time not anymore, but he feels the connection. I really wanted to see him and my indestructible strong mom again … “
Your mother is your “heroine”
In previous postings, Eckes had repeatedly emphasized how much she admired her mother for how she dealt with her husband’s serious illness. She is a “heroine” – and that both “as a woman, as a person, as a companion.” But even such a strong person needs support, as Eckes’ break at the beginning of the year showed. At that time, the broadcaster sent a press release from the presenter: “Unfortunately, my father’s Alzheimer’s disease has worsened dramatically in recent months, so that I and my siblings have to take care of our parents intensively and now as a family have to be there especially for each other . “
As if her father’s illness wasn’t bad enough, Eckes also announced in her latest Instagram post that she was “a few days ago […] lost one of my closest friends “. For her this was another” bitter reminder of what is really important in life. “