[Vision2020] Michael J. Fox interview

[heirdoug at netscape.net]

Thanks Tom, for making it clear that I did not know what I was talking 
about. You sure spend a lot of time verifying my quotes. Maybe you 
should have sent this wonderful letter to the person of whom I quoted 
directly. I'm sure she will feel real good about the tone in which you 
sent this to me.

barb_crabtree at excite.com

Let me know how she takes your gracefull and full of love comments.

I'll be waiting to hear from you. You sweetheart you!


lemeno, Doug

ps: I'm still waiting!





-----Original Message-----
From: idahotom at hotmail.com
To: heirdoug at netscape.net; thansen at moscow.com; vision2020 at moscow.com
Sent: Wed, 1 Nov 2006 5:06 PM
Subject: RE: [Vision2020] Michael J. Fox interview

To quote Michael Fox's book, "No Clue": 
 
"Snippets of my testimony were featured on several of the nightly news 
broadcasts. One line in particular from my prepared statement got a lot 
of play: "In my forties, I can expect challenges most people wouldn't 
face until their seventies and eighties, if ever. But with your help, 
if we all do everything we can to eradicate this disease, when I'm in 
my fifties I'll be dancing at my children's weddings." I had made a 
deliberate choice to appear before the subcommittee without medication. 
It seemed to me that this occasion demanded that my testimony about the 
effects of the disease, and the urgency we as a community were feeling, 
be seen as well as heard. For people who had never observed me in this 
kind of shape, the transformation must have been startling." 
 
Pat Kraut's statement: 
 
"Did you read the book wherein Fox was the first to say that he had 
played with his meds to put on a good show?? People with Parkinson's 
were incensed when they heard he did it! Rush didn't make it up...Fox 
did!" 
 
My original statement that Michael Fox NEVER made such a statement 
still stands. 
 
As far as "People with Parkinson's were incensed when they heard he did 
it" is concerned, here is another passage from Michael Fox's book 
(shortly after Fox's testmony before the subcommittee): 
 
"As Joan [a California attorney suffering from Parkinson's Disease] and 
I left the corridors of power we must have looked like a pair of 
drunken sailors; the day's hectic events had brought our symptoms to 
full boil, and both of us were a little wobbly. But something else was 
going on with Joan - I noticed that she was fighting back tears. 'Am I 
missing something?' I said, baffled. 'I thought we did pretty good back 
there.' 
 
'Oh, it was fantastic,' she said. 'It's just that it's always been so 
hard to get anyone to even listen to us, never mind invite us into 
their offices.' She flashed me a smile. 'It's a whole new world.'" 
 
Just what is your definition of "incensed", Pat? 
 
Tom Hansen 
Moscow, Idaho 
 
 
>From: heirdoug at netscape.net 
>To: thansen at moscow.com, vision2020 at moscow.com 
>Subject: [Vision2020] Michael J. Fox interview 
>Date: Wed, 01 Nov 2006 15:16:40 -0500 
> 
>Tom-Tom, 
> 
>Try this one: 
> 
>Lucky Man: A Memoir, by Michael J. Fox. On page 247-248, he describes 
>his testimony before the Senate hearing. He does not say that he 
played 
>with his medication; he says he did not take it (to show the true 
>effects of PD). 
> 
>lemeno, Doug! 
> 
>PS: I'm still waiting! 
 


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