Former Premier League star Dean Windass reveals additional diagnosis after heartbreaking dementia revelation - as Hull City icon asks: 'what else have I got?'

Former Premier League prima Dean Windass has revealed helium has been diagnosed with ADHD, aft antecedently sharing that helium has signifier 2 dementia successful January of this year. 

The ex-Hull City guardant helped publication the Tigers their first-ever Premier League berth with his extremity successful the 2008 play-off last and scored a full of 141 goals during his astir 20-year career. 

But Windass was compelled to stock the quality that helium had been diagnosed with the cognitive syndrome 12 months earlier his nationalist statement, aft erstwhile Manchester United defender David May cited his lawsuit amid the increasing contented of dementia successful football. 

Windass aboriginal spoke retired connected his diagnosis via societal media, stressing that helium is 'ok' but keen to guarantee 'other families get the assistance that they privation for the radical they person lost'. 

Stage 2 dementia is categorised by mild cognitive decline, including issues with representation and language, but mostly tin beryllium mistaken for mean ageing, arsenic the idiosyncratic volition inactive beryllium capable to execute regular activities arsenic normal. 

But Windass shared connected Tuesday that arsenic good arsenic his dementia diagnosis, helium has besides precocious learned helium has different neurological condition. 

Windass initially learned that helium had ADHD successful the build-up to the motorboat of his 2nd autobiography, and arsenic helium told the BBC, helium could hardly judge helium had different condition. 

'I thought, "God, what's going on?",' Windass said. 'I've got dementia, present I've got ADHD - and what other person I got. 

But Windass went connected to uncover that aft struggling astatine school, his diagnosis of ADHD - which impacts attraction and tin origin hyperactivity and impulsivity - rapidly made consciousness to him. 

'Even astatine schoolhouse I couldn't process things,' helium continued. 

'I tin work and write, but if I work a publication and you asked maine what that publication was about, I wouldn't know.' 

Windass has antecedently shared that helium wished helium did not cognize astir his dementia diagnosis, opening up successful March that helium regretted undergoing the scan. 

'John (Stiles) asked maine astir a twelvemonth and fractional agone (to get a scan) and I declined,' helium told Good Morning Britain hosts Ed Balls and Ranvir Singh successful March. 

'I said "No, I'm not funny truly to find out", and helium was expressing astir the shot families and however a batch of ex footballers person passed distant (from dementia).

'He said, "Look it mightiness assistance a batch of people", truthful I was benignant of a guinea pig to spell into this scan machine. There's a batch of footballers that won't bash it due to the fact that they don't privation to cognize the outcome. I privation I wouldn't person gone successful now, but it's happened.'

When pressed by Balls connected what helium meant by saying helium wished helium hadn't done the scan, Windass, who was joined by his fiancee Kerry Kehoe, added: 'Yeah, due to the fact that past I wouldn't person known would I? It would beryllium amended not to know.

'They said this is the diagnosis, it's precise mild. You person thing to interest astir astatine this stage. It could beryllium 5 to 10 years that it could make to bigger stages, truthful it wasn't the quality that I wanted. I was frightened Ed, I was scared, of people I was.

'I bash hide a batch of things of course, but Kerry runs everything for me. I'm 56 now, truthful of people I hide names and hide things, but I don't cognize if I'm implicit reasoning subconsciously. Kerry volition inquire maine mundane "Do you cognize what you're doing this week?"'

Kerry admitted they don't talk astir the diagnosis unneurotic and that they initially 'buried our heads successful the sand'.