The family of the “Duck Dynasty” star family Phil Robertson shares the update of Alzheimer’s diagnosis
“Dynasty Duck” Star Phil Robertson’s family gave an update on the health of the family patriarch, a few months after Alzheimer’s diagnosis.
In the episode of April 2 of the podcast “Sproth with the Robertson family”, the children Jase and Robertson, and their cousin, Zach Dasher, revealed that Phil is not going well.
“Question n. 1 that I get wherever I go (is),” how is your father? “Now I’m just giving the straightforward truth.
He added that Phil is now receiving “some professional care”.
Phil Robertson, who was diagnosed with Alzheimer’s in December, is not “good”, according to his son Jase. (Roy Rochlin/Getty Images)
Jase also shared that Zach had recently visited Phil and had a difficult time with PHIL condition.
“I stopped when Zach was going out … and I was like, ‘how did he go?'”, He remembered. “And Zach has just lost it, you know, and in a certain sense I realized at that moment when you are in these battles day after day that somehow compartment all just to be able to face it.”
“We are putting it at ease and we are doing the best we can. I think it’s just what you do,” said Jase.
Zach also experienced the effects of Alzheimer with his mother. He said the visit was difficult in part because he hadn’t seen Phil for some time and his decline appeared more intense than the daily experience of the immediate family.
In the photo from the left: Phil Robertson, Jase Robertson, Si Robertson and Willie Robertson, from the A & E series, “Duck Dynasty”. (AP)
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“I think that when you come like you guys, you are seeing the fading. But I was not around or I have seen it for a few months. So I enter and it’s like” Whoa “, he said, comparing it with Si Robertson who has a similar experience with Zach’s mother.
“I said a lot Dementia and Alzheimer. But I think that anyone who is in our audience who has crossed it … this will resonate with them – that we are very talking about how the memories of those who have the disease steals, “he said.
Zach continued, “but for me, also steals the memory of those who take care of the people who have the disease, because you are seeing this slow progression over time, and it is only difficult to look at.”
“We appreciate prayers,” Jase said to browse the support of family, friends and fans.
Phil’s nephew, Zach, recently visited him and witnessed the toll that the disease took over his uncle. (Paul Drinkwater/NBCU Photo Bank/Nbuniversal via Getty Images via Getty Images)
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For the first time he shared the recession in his father’s health in December, saying on the podcast that Phil has the “early stages of Alzheimer”.
“It is like accelerated and is causing problems with all his body. And he has the first phases of Alzheimer’s. So if you put those things together, he is really not really going well. He’s fighting,” Jase said at that moment.
Willie RobertsonPhil’s son also spoke to Fox News Digital by phone at the time and clarified that Phil is “fighting many different things right now”.
“He has a blood disorder, and then he has the mental problems that could soon be (on the set) of Alzheimer’s … and probably some mini-bombs because of his blood,” said Willie. “And so, it could be a little suddenly, it happened. So, we are still checking all this. But then he also has a back problem. He fractured his back and that’s where it is pain. So he is fighting many different things at the same time.”
Willie Robertson told Fox News Digital in December that his father also had a “blood disorder” and other health conditions. (Peter Kramer/NBC/NBC Newswire/Nbuniversal via Getty Images)
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In the recent episode of the Podcast, Jase also shared that their mother, Miss Kay, recovered in the hospital from an infection following a cut that she got from a fall.
“We had some to do with the fact that it was so,” he said, but he observed that he was improving.
