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12. “On my bleakest days, I’ve a choice whether to get up or stick my head under the pillow.” Meet Jo Tosh.

2nd August 2023

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  • 12. “On my bleakest days, I’ve a choice whether to get up or stick my head under the pillow.” Meet Jo Tosh.

Former lecturer and nurse Jo Tosh was diagnosed with Parkinson’s Disease at the age of just 47, leading to her retirement on medical grounds.

 

Now an advocate for Parkinson’s UK, she tells Charlotte about having holes drilled in her skull for treatment, how she got her head around having a terminal, degenerative condition, and why one of her first symptoms was – as she told her husband – being ‘mardy all the time’.

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