Celine Dion’s sister says the singer is struggling uncontrollable “spasms” as she continues to battle her incurable stiff individual syndrome.
The ‘My Heart Will Go On’ singer, 55, revealed her prognosis in December, which pressured her to tug the plug on her ‘Courage World Tour’, and her older sibling Claudette Dion, 74, has now mentioned she is devastated there appears little she and the singer’s household can do to assist her “strong” sister or “alleviate her pain”.
Claudette instructed HELLO! Canada: “She’s doing everything to recover. She’s a strong woman.
“It’s an illness we know so little about. There are spasms – they’re impossible to control.
“You know who people often jump up in the night because of a cramp in the leg or the calf? It’s a bit like that, but in all muscles.
“There’s little we can do to support her, to alleviate her pain.”
She added mum-of-three Celine’s household is “crossing our fingers that researchers will find a remedy for this awful illness”.
Stiff individual syndrome is a uncommon, progressive neurological dysfunction that may trigger stiff muscle tissue within the torso, legs and arms – and impacts about one in one million individuals.
Celine’s different sister Linda and her husband have moved into the singer’s house in Las Vegas to take care of her, and Claudette added: “It’s comforting for us all (to have them near Celine.)”
Claudette has beforehand revealed that regardless of working with “the top researchers in the field”, Grammy-winning Celine has seen little enchancment in her well being.
She instructed Le Journal de Montreal: “We can’t find any medicine that works, but having hope is important.”
Claudette mentioned Celine cancelling her ‘Courage’ tour was a needed transfer for her probabilities of rehabilitation.
She added in regards to the singer – whose music producer husband René Angélil, 73, died in 2016 after they had been married for 22 years: “I honestly think that she mostly needs to rest. She always goes above and beyond, she always tries to be the best and top of her game. At one point, your heart and your body are trying to tell you something. It’s important to listen to it.”
Source: www.perthnow.com.au
