For five years after he was diagnosed with Alzheimer’s disease, RONALD REAGAN was not told he had the deadly illness because his devoted wife NANCY decided to keep the ex-prez blissfully unaware of his dire condition.
That’s one of the bombshell revelations in the blockbuster new book, My Father at 100, A Memoir, penned by his son Ron Reagan.
In 1994, Reagan, disclosed he had been diagnosed with Alzheimer’s disease and informed the nation he was beginning "the journey that will lead me into the sunset of my life."
But Ron confirms in the book that his father was actually diagnosed with the brain-robbing disease in 1989 after a fall from a horse required him to undergo surgery to relieve pressure in his skull.
Nancy did not tell her husband about his terminal illness for five full years – until the disease had progressed substantially, according to the book.
Ron writes that he noticed his father’s mental faculties slipping as early as 1983 and was alarmed to see him confused and to hear him repeating stories.
Early in the course of his disease, Reagan had moments of delusion.
While watching televised football games, the ex-president would think he was back in high school and was needed on the football field, his son writes.
Nancy had to move her husband out of the bedroom they had shared for 50 years and into a hospital bed in what had been his home office.
There, in the months before he died, the ex-leader of the free world would lie unmoving for weeks, rarely opening his eyes.
All the heartbreaking details are in the new ENQUIRER!
