A dad-of-two who thought he was just being clumsy was shocked to discover he had Parkinson’s disease.
Rob Stubbs was walking in the Himalayas when one of his friends first noticed he wasn’t picking his right foot up off the floor properly. Rob, from Barnston, Wirral, said he didn’t think anything of it at the time, so when he started dragging his right leg along with him he put it down to clumsiness.
However, it was thanks to a friend, who noticed Rob was leaning to one side, that he decided to go to the doctors to get checked out. The 62-year-old teaching assistant has shared his story to raise awareness as part of World Parkinson’s Day, which fell on April 11 this year.
