The sky has darkened on the TF1 house. On January 28, we learned, emblematic presenter of the weather on the first channel for years. Carried away at the age of 73, suffered from a neurodegenerative disease called Lewy’s body dementiaa mixture between Parkinson and Alzheimer which causes tremors and memory disorders. But these symptoms were far from being the only ones to manifest.
During her farewell to TF1 in January 2017, Catherine Laborde mentioned a well -deserved retirement “After 28 years of good and loyal service ”. In reality, if it could continue, the disease diagnosed three years earlier after was right for its professional activity. To suffer from Lewy’s body dementia is, among other things, suffer tremors, loss of balance, hallucinations, language and memory disorders, “depressed and paranoid states and disorders of the recognition of the loved one, husband, parent, child, perceived as an evil double.”It is in these terms that Catherine Laborde and Thomas Stern described the disease in the pages of the book they co -wrote together, Sick lovepublished in October 2020 by Plon.
Thomas Stern panicked by a very special symptom
If the physical manifestations of the disease are obviously difficult, nothing could be more scared of Thomas Stern than to see his wife, the one he loved so much, no longer recognize him: “It is this symptom that worries me the most, he said in the pages of the book. We cannot love ourselves without recognizing ourselves, perhaps even that love is only recognizing ourselves, marveling from the return of a mysterious re-knowing, as to know him of Plato who is only to remember. But, my love, if you forget who I am? If you perceive me as a double of me that hurts you? So the keystone of love would fall and everything would collapse – that I love you would not change anything. What a drama if you no longer knew what me loves to say. What can we still be for each other, when one no longer knows who he is, nor who is the other? ”
Between Catherine Laborde and Thomas Stern, love has triumphed
It was in the 1990s that Catherine Laborde and Thomas Stern fell in love. The first time at least, since as Catherine Laborde said in her book The sweet joy of being deceived, Loyalty was not really the first quality of the one she had placed her confidence at the time. According to him, Thomas Stern was. This is one of the reasons why everyone has made a long way, Thomas Stern having even married another woman with whom he had a daughter.
Finally, the two ex found themselves and crowned their love of, surrounded by their friends and their families. Love was more than ever there. And always in Sick love, Thomas Stern expressed all the distress of imagining a life without Catherine by her side: “I don’t want you to go. I don’t want to lose you, I don’t want you to get lost. I can’t live without you. How could I live with you if, for you, you are no longer you?”After the departure of Catherine Laborde and, Thomas Stern is preparing to write a new chapter in her life, probably the most difficult…
