A Bury man had his symptoms mistaken for paranoid schizophrenia for years until he was eventually diagnosed with an extremely rare life-limiting disease.
Robert Turner was born with Juvenile Batten Disease, a condition which causes mental impairment, worsening seizures and progressive loss of sight and motor skills. The disease is fatal and progressively worsens over weeks, months or years.
His parents, Pam and Gary, say the neurodegenerative disorder did not begin to show signs until Robert was seven-years-old. He first lost his sight before he began suffering seizures as a teenager.
