Dr. Oz speaks out about his mother's Alzheimer's and blames himself for missing the signs.
In a new interview with Maria Shriver -- who has promoted Alzheimer's awareness since her father, Sargent Shriver, was diagnosed in 2003 -- Oz not only shared that 81-year-old Suna has the disease, but that even though he is a doctor by profession, he missed the signs for her diagnosis. Some
"The idea that you would lose -- which is how I feel now -- that I'm gonna lose my mom twice," he emotionally continues."She's already disappearing, wisps of her memories are evaporating in front of me." "I love my mom dearly," he says. I am here because of her. ... And I blamed myself because I realized that if I had found it earlier, it could have helped certainly delay ... the clues were there."
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