Photo Credit: Getty Images Rebecca Doig, a 31-year-old
Australian woman, recently gave birth to her first child—a baby
girl—but she has no recollection of it. Around the time she
found out she was pregnant, Doig also learned that she has
Alzheimer’s. Doig has an extremely rare genetic form of the
disease that caused her condition to deteriorate so quickly that
she doesn’t recognize her baby, and now needs around-the-clock
care. Just how rare are we talking? According to Sydney’s The
Daily Telegraph, she is believed to be the first woman with this
particular genetic strain of Alzheimer’s. She is also one of the
youngest people ever diagnosed with the condition. Though you
can probably breathe a sigh of relief regarding your own chances
of getting Alzheimer’s before you have kids, it’s not quite so
clear-cut whether you’ll retire with all your mental faculties
intact. According to Dr. Brandon Colby, MD, author of Outsmart
Your Genes, roughly one in 1,000 people will be diagnosed with
Alzheimer’s before the age