when the diagnosis of Parkinson’s reaches 37

“They told my grandmother that she had it after me.” Paqui Ruiz comments half laughing, trying to give a slight touch of humor to the disease he suffers and that appeared nine years ago. He had not turned 50 when the doctor gave him the diagnosis: Parkinson’s. “I couldn’t believe it. I was just thinking: I’m 48 years old, how am I going to have Parkinson’s? They have to be wrong,” he says from Tenerife on the other side of the phone. But they weren’t. Teresa Borque was even younger when she received the diagnosis. She was 37 years old and only a few months ago had given birth to her son. “I was thinking ‘but how can it be if I’m young and I’m not trembling?”