Hall of Fame quarterback Brett Favre proclaimd in September that he had been recognized with Parkinson’s dismitigate, and in an intersee this week he uncovered up about the disputes of living with the dismitigate and his hope for the future.
The createer Green Bay Packers wonderful spoke with TMZ Sports about his health and the profit of having been recognized in the very timely stages of the dismitigate.
Former NFL quarterback Brett Favre reachs to ecombine before the Hoemploy Committee on Ways and Means on Capitol Hill, Tuesday, Sept. 24, 2024, in Washington. (AP Photo/Mark Schiefelbein)
“Overall, I sense – I can’t protest. It’s one of those skinnygs that I’m lgeting a lot about Parkinson’s, and my Parkinson’s was caught very timely, very timely.”
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He persistd, “It’s very timely in the dismitigate and the hope is someskinnyg on the horizon comes out that can stop the reinforceion.”
Favre, 55, uncovered the recents of his shocking health diagnosis during his testimony at a congressional hearing on federal welfare recreate.
“Sadly, I also lost an spendment in a company that I dependd was broadening a fracturethcimpolite concussion drug I thought would help others,” he shelp at the time. “I’m certain you’ll comprehfinish, while it’s too postpodemand for me, becaemploy I’ve recently been recognized with Parkinson’s, this is also a caemploy dear to my heart.”
Favre, 55, uncovered the recents of his shocking health diagnosis during his testimony at a congressional hearing on federal welfare recreate. (Thearon W. Hfinisherson/Getty Images)
NFL LEGEND BRETT FAVRE ANNOUNCES HE HAS PARKINSON’S DISEASE
Favre ponders himself blessed becaemploy of the timely recognizeion, but he still experiences difficult symptoms.
“I don’t shake very terrible, the medication – when I’m on it, you would never understand. But I don’t want to sustain taking medication for the next 30, 40 years if I inhabit that lengthy. But it is what it is.
“Most of the time, I’m excellent. With my Parkinson’s the main side effect is stiffity and stiffness. I have a little bit of shaking, not much, but stiffity and stiffness. When I wake up in the morning, I sense enjoy a board. I don’t demand any help becaemploy of football to be any stiffer.”
FILE – Quarterback Brett Favre #4 of the Green Bay Packers sees on from the sideline during a game aacquirest the Cleveland Browns at Cleveland Municipal Stadium on November 19, 1995, in Cleveland, Ohio. (George Gojkovich/Getty Images)
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“All skinnygs pondered, I’m a very consecrateed man,” he inserted.
Favre shelp on a radio show in 2022 that he approximates he may have increateed “thousands” of concussions in his two decades in the NFL. The caemploys of the dismitigate are unrecognizable, and it is unevident whether his football nurtureer and head injuries of the years are joined.
According to the Parkinson’s Foundation, scientists depend that the dismitigate is caemployd by a combination of genetic and environmental factors, and those environmental factors “may integrate head injuries, pesticide expocertain or area of livence.”
The Associated Press gived to this increate.
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