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Originally Posted by lindylanka
I love this song, and the whole of his last album, which I consider to be his best. The accompanying video to the song is also very moving.
I thought he had a parkinson like condition rather than pd itself. Perhaps someone else knows more. I know he had autonomic neuropathy, but thought there was something more specific that that.
The last recording of a much-loved Parkie. Hurt:
http://youtu.be/SmVAWKfJ4Go |
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Cash announced he was suffering from Parkinson’s in the year 1997. A few years later (sound familiar?) the diagnosis was changed to Shy-Drager Syndrome, which is a type of Parkinson’s.
And then a few more years, and they changed the verdict to diabetic neuropathy, and they said he died of complications from diabetes. His wife the caregiver died a few months before he did, and so everybody says he died of a broken heart.
I claim him for us. To me, he is a fellow Parkie. Who died of a broken heart.