The Extraordinary Ordinary with Parkinson's sufferer and advocate Jo Tosh

A 30 year career as an NHS nurse didn’t help Jo Tosh to piece together the strange symptoms she started to experience as being the first signs that she was suffering with Parkinsons Disease.

But them why would she, she was only in her mid forties and Parkinson’s is an old persons disease isn’t it?

It was one of the many lessons Jo has learnt in the eight years since her diagnosis, and one of the reasons she has become a determined advocate for other Parkinsons sufferers and campaigner for better recognition of the disease and more to be done to find new treatments and, hopefully, eventually a cure.

Jo talks about the way Parkinson's has affected her, how she's learnt to live with the potentially crushing uncertainty of its progression and find not just joy and purpose but something altogether unexpected as well.

To learn more about Jo's Parkinsons journey and campaign follow her on Instagram at ladyduffgordon

Written and Presented by Diane Kenwood
Produced by Clare Lynch
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