'There were times we didn't think she was going to survive,' shares her son, as the pair open up about what led to her overdose and her long, ongoing road to recovery (via toofab)
before the family received his frontotemporal dementia diagnosis.
According to the publication, O'Neal has"fought to regain her full memory," and has been undergoing numerous therapies at different facilities under medical supervision for the past couple years. Her son said that,"at times, it was touch and go," as he feared she would be"blind, deaf, and potentially might never speak again."
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