"Saving Millie" comes on Central Standard Time at 8:00 Sunday on CBS.
I'm looking forward to seeing it.  My love was once dx'd with PD, then
PSP, then MSA.  We still don't know what he actually has , and won't
until the autopsy.  He is going into a nursing home in the next 2 weeks,
and I'm certain he'll have to educate the staff on how to care for a PD
patient.   Best to you.  Jo Ann

On Thu, 10 Mar 2005 23:29:51 -0500 Peggy Willocks <[log in to unmask]>
writes:
> NOTE!  This movie is painfully and graphically realistic!  As a newly
> diagnosed person with Parkinson's, you might not be ready for the
> content.
> But realize that Milly had a Parkinson's Plus syndrome called
> Multiple
> System Atrophy (MSA).  And she was diagnosed 17 years ago.  We have
> come
> such a long way in research!  Our reason for wanting others to watch
> this
> movie is two-fold:
> 1) we need more awareness about PD
> 2) we need to increase funding for research.
> And remember, WE HAVE HOPE!
>
> SAVING MILLY," A NEW TELEVISION MOVIE
> STARRING MADELINE STOWE AND BRUCE GREENWOOD
> WILL BE BROADCAST ON MARCH 13, 2005 ON THE CBS TELEVISION NETWORK
>
> Based on Morton Kondracke's Best-Selling Book
> "Saving Milly"
> "SAVING MILLY," a new television movie starring Madeline Stowe ("The
> Last of
> the Mohicans") and Bruce Greenwood ("Being Julia") will be broadcast
> on
> March 13, 2005 at 9:00 p.m./8:00 p.m. (central) on the CBS
> Television
> Network.  The drama, based on the best-selling book and real-life
> journey of
> political journalist Morton Kondracke, recounts his inspiring love
> story
> with his activist wife, Milly, and the dramatic change in their
> lives in the
> years after she was diagnosed with Parkinson's disease.
> As a young journalist in Chicago in the '60s, Mort Kondracke had
> long
> envisioned marrying a Vassar graduate whose connections would
> facilitate his
> goal of becoming an esteemed Washington journalist.  However,
> without
> warning, Milly Martinez, a brash part-Mexican, part-Catholic,
> part-Jewish
> therapist/activist, enters his life and captures his heart.  While
> building
> their lives and careers together in Washington, D.C., the loving
> strong-willed partners debate passionately about everything from
> politics,
> how to raise their two daughters and his struggle with alcohol, to
> her
> insatiable, all-consuming desire to save the world by championing a
> never-ending list of causes.
> In 1987, their lives take a dramatic turn when Milly notices a
> change in her
> handwriting and numbness in her fingers.  After a series of tests,
> her worst
>  fears are confirmed and, at the age of 47, Milly is diagnosed with
> Parkinson's disease.
> Mort and Milly's love grows even stronger as they battle against the
> debilitating effects of the disease and become passionate advocates
> for
> increased government funding for medical research.  Holding to his
> promise
> of "in sickness and in health," Mort changes his focus from being a
> die-hard
> careerist to becoming a devoted caregiver and Parkinson's advocate
> with a
> renewed connection to his faith.  As her illness progressed, his
> life became
> committed to saving Milly.
> ******************************
> http://www.cbs.com/specials/saving_milly/
> Read some "Behind the Scenes" interviews at
> www.grassrootsconnection.com
>
> If you would like to make a tax-deductible donation to Parkinson's
> research,
> visit the webpage for this year's Unity Walk April 16 in New York
> City.
> (Type in my name under "Search for a Walker" - Peggy Willocks)
>
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