Emiliano Pinsón: Overcoming Parkinson’s and Embracing Life with Optimism

2024-04-14 19:17:00
Emiliano Pinsón told how he went through Parkinson’s and how it changed his life (Video Telefe)

Far from what could be anguish and melancholy, Emiliano Pinsón shows another side of Parkinson’s. Determined to turn the page and live his life as fully as possible, the journalist . That was the message he gave when he was invited to Mirtha Legrand’s Night and he detailed how he was going through his illness and the change he had in his daily life.

Three years after he was diagnosed with his illness, the communicator recalled how he realized he had Parkinson’s. “And how did he start? “How did you realize?” Chiqui asked him. “I realized it playing soccer with my friends. I have a healthy life. I was playing ball, I want to dribble and I can’t. I try a second time, a third time, I make a move, I fall and I step on the ball. I was working at that time, very late on TV and very early on radio. I said, ‘it must be a dream theme.’ “I went to have a polysomnography study,” he recounted the beginning of the process.

Immediately afterwards, the communicator spoke about the talk he had with the specialist who treated him and the surprise he had when he found out: “When I go to see the result again, they tell me why you are not going to see abnormal movements, which I ask for. Please change the name for involuntary and non-abnormal movements. I came in on February 4, 2021, I went to see the neurologist, I took a couple of tests and she told me: ‘What do you think you have?’. I imagine I have stress. ‘No, you have Parkinson’s.’ It was kind of blunt. Maybe I don’t blame, there are some neurologists who, in order not to generate a link, may do this. It was surprising, obviously.”

Laura Garces gave her unconditional support to Emiliano Pinsón, who left a program, but who will try to remain linked to the media

At the same time, Pinsón sought to give a message of encouragement to all those people who suffer from the disease and explained at what ages it can be detected: “I have Parkinson’s, already diagnosed in 2021. One thinks that it is a disease of older people and that it is hereditary. , it is not like that, it is not hereditary, there must be a lower percentage. It can appear at any age. There is a young Parkinson’s, the origin is being found out and investigated. A fairly important trend has to do with diet and poor functioning of the intestine, which for many is the second brain.”

Parents of three children, Joaquín (24 years old), Valentín (23) and Victoria (16), the communicator was honest about the doubts he had about telling about his illness in public: “And from then on they put me on medication. It took me a year to say it, not to my family or my people, but publicly. Until one day, eating with my friends, someone told me: ‘Emiliano, why don’t you tell me? You are a communicator, you have been working for 25 years, why don’t you say so?’ And he clicked with me. I didn’t want to be a champion of this, but I started communicating it on my social networks. A girl appeared there and told me why don’t you do a podcast. I started it and began to communicate and everything I was saying, which is only something that happens to me, is how I fight by taking a weight off my shoulders, with a lot of therapy.”

Since then, Pinsón looked for a way to get ahead and continue with his life despite the limitations. In that sense, he revealed that he is not afraid of certain words that become common in his daily life: “I am not afraid to say that I take antidepressants, because when they give you news like that, Parkinson’s and depression come hand in hand, because It’s a blow. So I take antidepressants, I go to a psychologist and a psychiatrist and there is no harm in saying so. You have to get those fears out of words a little.”

Despite suffering from Parkinson’s, Emiliano Pinsón tries to remain linked to the media (@emipinson)

Beyond the consequences of the disease, it brings other effects for each person. In the case of the journalist it is body pain: “My whole body hurts, every day. Each patient is different. My legs and extremities hurt a lot. But there are other people who can’t drive. It happens to each one differently. What happened to me was that I said it all this time. I was not afraid and it seems that I have empathized with many people and I see it with optimism. “I try to get the positive out of this disease.”

Finally, the journalist explained the change of position he had regarding the disease and how it helped him to lead his life in the best way: “It is up to one to combat it in that way. I am positive about this. I formed a couple with a girl who knew she had Parkinson’s. When anyone else says it’s done, I quit, I continue working. I still have the life I had before with limitations. You no longer play football. You go out and look for yourself without blaming anyone. “Is it the one that touched me and I face it.”

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