I just read an article about Brian Grant a former NBA player with great talent. He three years ago was diagnosed with Parkinson’s Disease. He made his living and career playing basketball and after retirement suffered depression and this handicapped disease. After basketball you must be prepared for all obstacles and make the most of what you’ve learned through the sport to get you through. Positivity and will, plus determination!
With a huge black-and-white painting of Bob Marley peering over one shoulder and a half-dozen framed NBA jerseys visible over the other, Brian Grant took a deep breath, ignored his left hand shaking as if it were trying to put out a match, and let go of the secret that had tormented him for the last four months.
“I have young onset Parkinson’s,” he said.
That’s Parkinson’s, as in the disease that disrupts the brain’s coordination and control of muscle movement and motor skills. A progressive disease for which the cause and the cure are unknown. A disease so rare for someone like Grant, 37, to contract that his case is identified as “young onset.
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Also, you have a chance to read the ESPN Magazine check out his article: Don’t Take The Field Without A Plan – And Don’t Leave Home Without One.
Here are some quotes:
You have to have something to keep busy. Otherwise, you have too much time to think about not being a professional athlete anymore – and never being one again. Thats depressing realization sucks you down.
These days, I’m wishing I’d nurtured more relationships while I was playing ..I had a couple of friends in the leage , but I was closed off a bit…
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