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The temple of the reputation of Brett Favre Professional Football spoke of its battle with Parkinson’s disease.
The Super Bowl champion revealed that last year, he had been diagnosed with the disease while he testified on Capitol Hill on social protection reform.
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The quarter-back from Green Bay Packers (4) Brett Favre warmed before playing against the Lions of Detroit at Ford Field. (Tom Szczerbowski / USA TODAY SPORTS)
He appeared in the recent episode of “The Sage Steele Show” and spoke more of his symptoms and his mental anxiety while he goes through his day.
“What symptoms have somehow appeared here lately, it is that I have trouble swallowing,” he told Sage Steele. “There are times when I think I’m choking. It’s a bit scary because they can’t fix this. I try not to think about it. I try to focus simply on the day.
“But there are often moments during the day, maybe at night, when I decompress and I think I progress a little because the progression, if I understand it, my doctor said:” Think that way. You see someone you haven’t seen for 20 years. They seem to have aged a little. others.
Favre said he was thinking about how he is progressing, if he is.
The quarter of Green Bay Packers (4) Brett Favre is interviewed after defeating the Lions of Detroit. (Tom Szczerbowski / USA TODAY SPORTS)
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“I think about it constantly even if I know that I should not. Am I being the one who ages faster? The disease will finally dominate me where I think at the moment, I dominate the disease. I wake up every day and I think:” I have progressed at 2% or am I the same? Am I looking at this progress more than I should? “All these thoughts come to my mind,” he said.
Favre told Capitol Hill, he was diagnosed with illness in January 2024.
Parkinson’s disease (PD) is a neurodegenerative disorder that affects movement, leading to tremors, stiffness, slow approach, balance problems and other symptoms.
Non -motor symptoms may include depression, anxiety, hallucinations, apathy, sleep disorders, loss of odor, digestive problems and orthostatic hypotension (a sudden drop in blood pressure during their standing position), according to the Parkinson foundation.
The Vikings du Minnesota, Brett Favre (4) quarter-rear, calls the number of snaps from behind the center during the third quarter against the Lions of Detroit at Ford Field. (Leon Halip / USA TODAY SPORTS)
Nearly a million people live with the disease in the United States, and 1.2 million expected will have received diagnostics by 2030.
