In the ring with Parkinson's disease

Who's Tom & Dick

Patrick Mortimer & Martin Weavers

Cardiac Arrest, Mental Health, Health & Fitness, Heart Attack, Medicine, Heart Disease, Hospice, Breast Cancer, Comedy, Stents, Cancer, Anxiety, Heart Failure, Lung Cancer, Comedy Interviews, Depression

5 • 901 Ratings

🗓️ 21 February 2025

⏱️ 38 minutes

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Send us a text Season 2 - Episode 31 In the ring withParkinson's disease The boys are out on their travels again but this time they are visiting a Centre set up for people battling Parkinson's Disease through a Boxercise session. Parkinson's disease is a progressive brain condition that affects movement, balance, and coordination. It's caused by the death of nerve cells in the brain, which leads to symptoms that can worsen over time. After years of progress, a disease that was once cons...

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0:00.0	You're listening to Who's Tom and Dick, a weekly podcast with your host, Martin Weavers, fighting states for lung cancer, and Patrick Mortimer, living with heart disease.
0:19.3	Why not grab yourself a cup of coffee? Sit back and enjoy the chatter as we discuss and share information talking about tough subjects and offering help, support and motivation with a positive mental attitude.
0:32.4	Good morning, Patrick. How are you? Yep, very well today, Martin. Thank you. It's a bit dull and miserable today, isn't it?
0:38.1	I know.
0:39.1	Gray skies, but we're jolly, aren't we?
0:42.4	Well, yeah, and we hope wherever you are listening,
0:44.3	it's a little bit better than where it is today
0:45.9	because we're on the road again, aren't we, Patrick?
0:47.8	We are, and where are we?
0:49.4	We're in Great Cornard, which was my home village for 17 and a half years. I lived here.
0:55.8	And this place is actually Cornard Community Centre now, isn't it? It should be the old school.
1:02.0	It was the old school. What was the name of it originally, do you know?
1:05.2	Wells Hall. Wells Hall Primary School, I believe. Yeah, it was. And then they built a new one up the road, which my children went to.
1:12.9	But this is used for different activities.
1:15.7	Alcoholics Anonymous use it from time to time.
1:18.8	And now...
1:19.2	I've seen you up here.
1:21.2	Yeah.
1:22.4	We're going to meet somebody.
1:24.2	He's doing a new class for people with Parkinson's.
1:27.4	So today, we're going to introduce
1:29.6	Ivan Ambrose good afternoon Ivan afternoon thanks for coming to join us in our little group and
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