The Parkinson’s Fight Club
This podcast is about determination, grit and perseverance. Your host, Jamie Bryson was diagnosed with Young Onset Parkinson’s (sometimes called Early Onset Parkinson’s) at the age of 39. After months of feeling like his life was over, Jamie decided to fight back. Listen in to hear the inspiring stories of warriors all over the world who are battling Parkinson's disease.
Episodes
In this episode, Jamie talks to Sara Whittingham, an anesthesiologist, Air Force veteran and mother of 2 diagnosed with Young Onset Parkinson's Disease. They discuss her journey, from noticing symptoms like a tremor in her arm to her diagnosis in November 2020.
Before diagnosis, Sara was an active athlete, participating in triathlons and Ironman races when she wasn't being deployed overseas. After diagnosis, Sara thought h...
In this episode, Jamie has a conversation with Joe Barrett, a fellow ultra-endurance athlete from New Jersey who also has Parkinson’s disease. They became friends last fall when Jamie saw a post from Joe about how he had attempted to run the Moab 240, one of the toughest ultra-distance running events in the world. Though they have never met in person, Joe and Jamie share a lot of commonalities that are highlighted in this conversat...
In this episode, Jamie has an illuminating conversation with Dr. Rodolfo Savica, who is professor of neurology and epidemiology at the Mayo Clinic in Rochester Minnesota. In his clinical practice, Dr. Savica specializes in movement disorders, particularly Young Onset Parkinson's disease (which is also called Early Onset Parkinson’s Disease).
Dr. Savica explains how he became interested in this field after encountering a patient...
In this episode, Jamie has a conversation with Joe Salazar from Brownsville Texas. They discuss Joe's Parkinson's diagnosis at a very young age and how that has affected his life. Joe was doing ok as a person with YOPD, staying active and still pursuing his dreams... until he contracted COVID-19 which took away his ability to walk. Joe was wheelchair bound until he was fortunately able to have DBS (Deep Brain Stimulation) s...
In this episode, Jamie and Christy talk about how things went from bad to worse in 2021 when Jamie found out he had a mass on his kidney. He subsequently underwent major surgery to remove the mass, which turned out to be clear cell carcinoma. As if that wasn't enough... shortly after the surgery, Jamie got COVID, and THEN was hospitalized again due to an internal bleed (a rare complication to the surgery).
After all of that, in...
In this episode, Jamie and his wife Christy discuss the results of Jamie's DaTscan and how his scan looks like a classic case of Parkinson's. They talk about how difficult it is dealing with a diagnosis like Parkinson's, especially when you get the official diagnosis over a Telehealth appointment.
After diagnosis, Jamie and Christy struggled to find a doctor who saw Jamie for who he was... a 39 year old Dad of 3 young ...
In this episode, Jamie and his guest Rune Vethe discuss the Bike to Barcelona project (aka Tour de Parkinson’s). This June (2023), Rune will be joining a group of cyclists, including 9 people with Parkinson’s, who will ride their bikes from the UK to Barcelona. They will cover 1,600 kilometers (almost 1,000 miles) in just over 2 weeks. They will arrive just in time for the start of the Parkinson’s World Congress, and they will also...
In this first episode of the Parkinson's Fight Club Podcast, Jamie and his wife Christy begin to tell the story of Jamie's Young Onset Parkinson's diagnosis. Part 1 of Jamie's story is all about what led him to see a neurologist and the difficulties of finding a diagnosis.
Jamie's journey with Parkinson's disease began in early spring of 2021. He and Christy reflect on the stress of the ongoing pandemic and...
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