Submitted by Paul Daley on
My father had Parkinson’s disease but never said the words. Liz Jackson’s decision to talk about it is heartbreaking, but remarkable for its humanity
“Parkinson’s disease” – my father never spoke these words before he died eight years ago from pneumonia associated with his decades-long endurance of this dreadful affliction.
My mother, who saw him through the worst of it until she could no longer do so, never said them. Neither did the doctors – not to his children at least.
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