A father who used to work as a maintainer manager at a hospital was told to go home and book an appointment with his GP after one of the doctors approached him. It happened six years ago when Ian Perry was fixing the heating and a neurologist asked him if he had Parkinson's disease.
At first Ian did not believe him but after a short conversation, he was convinced to go home and phone his GP. He said: "He knew by my facial expression and by the way I was walking, it just left me stunned I could not get my head around what he was telling me. I just thought this could not be happening to me.
"I was due to retire soon and I told my wife who was more shocked than me. I would relive that conversation with the doctor over in my head." After being told he had Parkinson's Ian said he would think about the disease "every morning" and thought his life had changed forever.
