A woman robbed of her memory by disease cries every day when she is reminded that her husband has left her. 

Veronika Mescheryakova, 29, from Kazan, Russia, suffers from a degenerative disease called porphyria, which has affected her short-term memory.

She has no memory of her husband walking out on her in November last year, and has to be told every day that he is not going to come home from work. 

Every day she thinks that her husband is at work, and when he does not come home at night, her mother has to tell her again about the divorce, leaving her distraught.

A local news report showed her crying as she has to be told, once again, that he has left her. 

One Russian reader commented on the article: 'I feel so sorry for her that I want to cry.'

Another one added: 'Maybe they should tell her that she was the one who left him.'

As a result of her illness,  Ms Mescheryakova has also lost the ability to walk.

An operation to alleviate the symptoms of her porphyria a few years ago failed to help her.

Ms Mescheryakova's mother is helping her during her physiotherapy and hopes that she will learn to walk again and one day reconnect with her ex-husband . 

Porphyria is a group of disorders in which the body is unable to cleanse organic compounds known as porphyrins, which are used to help red blood cells function.

Porphyrins are essential, but when levels are too high, they  interfere with the normal operations of the nervous system and skin.

Symptoms of acute porphyria include pain in abdomen, legs, muscles, hallucinations, disorientation, breathing problems, seizures and heart palpitations.