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When I was diagnosed a little over five years ago, the neurologist said I had a "mild case" of Parkinsons. Yesterday in browsing some of the information on one of the Parkinson links, I saw that "mild" and "severe" were used to describe stages of PD. It may be a semantic fine point, but when a person falls from a height, calling the beginning of the fall "a mild case of falling" and the end of the fall "a severe case of falling" somehow partakes of pollyanaism. It assumes that superman is going to rescue us at the last second. Superman, however,has his own problems and is not getting around as well as he did before a severe fall from a horse. On Fri, 24 Nov 1995, Betti Adams wrote: > With regard to Janet Reno's disclosure on having Parkinsons, what seems > unfortunately to be happening is that the current administration, in order > to maintain Reno's political position as Attorney General, is passing > Parkinsons off as a minor inconvenience for all those inflicted with the > disease, including Reno. This is bad because it can cause national apathy > towards Parkinsons and thus a reduction in research spending. > > The solution to this problem would be for Reno to step forward and > acknowledge that Parkinsons for her now is only an inconvenience but she > will have to face the future when it comes and that the future might > dictate a change in her political abilities. And she must explicitly > iterate that Parkinsons is much, much more than a minor inconvenience for > many if not most Parkinsons patients. > > If Reno fails to do this she will not only be failing the Parkinson > community she will be failing herself because without doubt the time will > come when she will have to rely on the research that is taking place today > and that might not take place in the future. > > Anyone think we should forward this to Reno? > > Eric & Betti Adams [log in to unmask] >