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# Face of the Day
- URL: https://goodoil.news/face-of-the-day-840/
- Published: 2023-10-02T17:30:51.000Z
- Updated: 2023-10-01T23:33:14.000Z
- Author: Good Oil Staff
- Tags: General, #wp, #wp-post, #Import 2024-07-16 22:07

> Sir Billy Connolly has shared an upsetting update amid his decade-long battle with Parkinson’s disease.  
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> The 80-year-old comedian was diagnosed with the brain disorder – which causes uncontrollable movements, such as shaking, stiffness, and difficulty with coordination – in 2013, Now, he’s given fans an update revealing that he has been struggling to balance as of late, and explained that the “cruel” disease is constantly stopping him from doing things.  
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> Speaking to the Observer, he said: “It’s very difficult to see the progression exactly, because a lot of things come and go. Recently I’ve noticed a deterioration in my balance. That was never such a problem before, but in the last year that has come and it has stayed.  
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> “For some reason, I thought it would go away, because a lot of symptoms have come and gone away, just to defy the symptom spotters. The shaking has reappeared and the inability to get out of certain types of chairs.  
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> “It’s just added to the list of things that hold me back. I feel like I want to go for a walk, but I go for 50 yards and I want to go home, because I’m tired. I’m being encroached upon by this disease. It’s creeping up behind me and stopping me doing things. It’s a cruel disease.”  
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> NewstalkZB

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