Arla -
DITTO!
Reading your response has brought tears to my eyes as I think about my
80-year-old father whose hallucinations and paranoia are tearing us all up
inside and my mother (also 80) who is his sole caregiver just like your mother.
I am frantically trying to get her some assistance without damaging her pride,
but if her health suffers, where will everybody be?
I couldn't agree more with what you wrote. Who cares what your sexual
orientation is?!? He's lost sight of the real picture here - that it's a
horrible disease which needs more research and better understanding by all in
the world.
On Feb 24, 10:19am, Arena, Arla L. wrote:
> Subject: Re: PARKINSN Digest - 23 Feb 1997 - Special issue
> The more I tend to read about this Oprah show thing the more it is
> starting to bother me. Some of
> you seem to feel that getting on this show is just a lark. Maybe before
> any of you embark on your "lark" into daytime tv you should see my dad.
> He is 76 and is very near the end of his battle with life and with
> Parkinson's. His rigid, twisted yet still shaking body is shutting down
> a little more each day. I can't remember the last time I could look
> into his eyes that they were not filled with tears. Maybe the calling
> for more research funds should be left to those who can handle it with
> dignity, not use the show as a soap box for homosexual recognition, or
> as Mr. Stan wants to show all the things that parkies can do making it
> look like Parkinson's is just a "lighthearted" disease and not all that
> serious. Maybe if you were nearly 80 years old like my mom and a full
> time care giver to someone as seriously stricken with Parkinson's as my
> dad is you would consider the chance to go on national television as a
> hope for the future, as a hope for more research, as a hope that people
> who have never even heard of Parkinson's will now hear about it and
> understand its needs, as a hope that someone else may not suffer as
> much as my dad is suffering now. Parkinson's is not a joke, it is not an
> inside track to homosexual foreplay on national television, it is not
> what type of fancy clothes to wear...it is an insidious, painful,
> horrible disease that sucks the life out of once vital, beautiful men
> and women.
> Stop using may Dad's suffering and many more suffering like him for your
> selfish interests on national television.
> Arla L. Arena
> Natrona Heights, PA
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