The interview can last up to an hour. Then the energy is gone and talking becomes more difficult. The answers are short, almost staccato. We are in his brother Marcel’s restaurant, De Gulle Smid, in Winterswijk. Ernst Daniël Smid stirs his cup of coffee. The latest failure due to Parkinson’s is the loss of fine motor skills in his fingers. “I used to stir this cup of coffee with two fingers. Now I have to do that with my whole hand. Tying shoelaces is no longer possible. Every so often something falls away that you think always went well.”
#Ernst #Daniël #Smid #wife #die #cancer #wont #bad