Tim Tebow is opening up about his family’s latest challenge.
“My dad has Parkinson’s disease,” the former quarterback turned baseball player tells PEOPLE in its latest issue. “He was diagnosed last spring.”
Both Tebow and his father, Bob, sit down with PEOPLE in their Jacksonville homes to talk about the diagnosis – and how it changed their lives.
Tebow, 29, recalls getting the bad news while he was in an Atlanta hotel room. “Talking to him that night, I wished that I could have been there with him. I asked him whether he needed me to come home, and he said, ‘No, you need to keep doing what you’re doing.