Two-time Super Bowl-winning coach Tom Coughlin reveals his wife's four-year battle with incurable brain disorder that has left her struggling to speak or move: 'Our hearts are broken'
Judy Coughlin, the wife of two-time Super Bowl-winning coach Tom, is bedridden with a brain disorder that has left her struggling to speak or move, her husband of 54 years revealed Tuesday. In a guest piece for The New York Times, Tom opened up about his wife's absence from public life and described the experience of caring for Judy over the last four years as she battles progressive supranuclear palsy, an incurable brain disorder that affects patients' ability to walk, speak, and move. 'As so many of you are gearing up for another NFL season, I will be sitting far from the sidelines, at the bedside and holding the hand of my biggest supporter, my beloved wife, the mother of our children and a grandmother to our grandchildren,' Tom wrote. Judy Coughlin, the wife of two-time Super Bowl-winning coach Tom, is bedridden with a brain disorder that has left her struggling to speak or move, her husband of 54 years revealed Tuesday. Judy, 76, has been a very visible part of her