KNC is home to world-renowned researchers. (Photo: UHN)
Text from Toronto Star:
No one notices the old man who shuffles into the physiotherapy office.
"Hello," he says to the receptionist. "I'm here!"
That voice can only belong to one man.
Even in just a few words, Andy Barrie still has that distinctive timbre that boomed into the bedrooms of Torontonians almost every dawn for 15 years with pointed questions, tell-it-like-it-is facts and wit.
But it's weary.
Softer, gravely — far more than aging and time would explain.
For now.
In a few hours, after his body gets moving, Barrie will seem like his old self again: the robust man behind the microphone and at the helm of Metro Morning, which became Toronto's top-rated morning radio show thanks to him.
Round cheeks. Proud chest. Energetic eyes — it's because of Deep Brain Stimulation, a surgery that, he says, dialed back the clock on his Parkinson's Disease.
The disease that left him "like a marionette with the strings cut," he says. "You just slump there."
Keep that image. The marionette's important and we'll get back to it. Right now, there's physiotherapy to do.
Read the whole story on the Toronto Star website.
