A "feisty" and "strong" nan from Wallasey died after a long battle with a rare disease.
Christina Parnell, known to her loved ones as Tina, died this summer after an eleven-year battle with Alzheimer's disease. Tina, who died in June aged 76, was diagnosed with the disease in 2011 after her daughter, Maria, sensed "things weren't right" with her once "feisty" and "confident" mum.
Maria said one of the cruellest things about the disease that took her mum's life was the loss of "dignity" that it caused, making her once "highly functioning" mum more quiet and less confident. She shared her mum's story with the ECHO in the hopes that it would raise awareness around the "cruel" disease.
