JEFFERSON COUNTY, Colo. — As deputies struggled to get Jim Purdy out of his Jefferson County home and into their car parked in the driveway, the 76-year-old warned the deputies his slow pace was deliberate.
“Do you know how many times I fall down? I fall down eight times a day,” Purdy said.
It was a remarkably prescient warning from the man who, at the time, was 12 years into a diagnosis of Parkinsons…