Excellent interview with Michael J. Fox

[Norman Bernstein]

For anyone with a friend or relative with Parkinson's.... or are simply interested.... this is a really great interview:

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/marlo-...b_1402876.html

[TomF]

For anyone with a friend or relative with Parkinson's.... or are simply interested.... this is a really great interview:

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/marlo-...b_1402876.html

Great interview, I agree. Great to see how fully he's simply accepted that his condition is part of the package of his life, rather than the defining part of the package.

Perhaps the smartest guy I knew said that this is the key thing for any of us - whether the thing we focus on is a disease/condition (i.e. a negative) ... or a brilliant talent (i.e. a positive). We are not our single most defining characteristics, nor even the sum of them all.

Great interview. Best to you and yours, Norman - my grandmother died from Parkinson's.

[Norman Bernstein]

Great interview, I agree. Great to see how fully he's simply accepted that his condition is part of the package of his life, rather than the defining part of the package.

Perhaps the smartest guy I knew said that this is the key thing for any of us - whether the thing we focus on is a disease/condition (i.e. a negative) ... or a brilliant talent (i.e. a positive). We are not our single most defining characteristics, nor even the sum of them all.

Great interview. Best to you and yours, Norman - my grandmother died from Parkinson's.

Thanks, Tom. Having lived with this (not me, but my wife) for seven years since her diagnosis, it's all the more impressive, the way M.J. Fox has dealt with it. To a certain degree, my wife has done similarly; life continues on, she still works, cares for our grandnephew one day a week, is the support system for my pregnant older daughter and our granddaughter, is a faithful participant in the local Rotatry Club, etc.... frankly, she does TOO much, but without all that, she'd have too much time to be angry and sad about being a Parkinson's victim.

So, she doesn't play 'victim' to the disease.... but even then, there are times when the reality can overwhelm her emotions. Any sign of further progression of the disease is a reason to fret. Thankfully, she is doing well... and a new medication is providing much better relief from certain symptoms, than the previous one.

Life goes on... and we cope.

[Hwyl]

Thanks Norman

[B_B]

...Great interview. Best to you and yours, Norman - my grandmother died from Parkinson's.

Ditto. (not to be pedantic; mine died with Parkinson's. She was 92.)