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I have a way to go in reading my mail, I don't recall a posting "casting the first stone". I do recall saying I thouht he (MJF) took PD too lightly in the people magazine article. The 20/20 feature last night confirmed my feelings. I think he's a good actor and I'm glad if some star HAD to get PD it was him. (Not that I would EVER wish this disease on anyone!) He is of course the perfect spokesman, IF he chooses to be. That is his decision and right. He still has a full time career and a loving family. If I'm not mistaken he already does some charity fund raising. But it;s a little hard to champion one's own cause, it could appear very self serving. Also, he's had this for 7 yeaers and not a peep. Why? The shame that comes with this damned disease. I wonder if Hollywood is ready for a sexy pwp. Bill At 03:03 PM 12/5/98 PST, you wrote: >I strongly agree with you. >I have heard several different things about Michael J Fox on this list. >Some of them good some of them down right angry. >Saying that his case is different because he is rich is unfair. >Everyone's case is different. Some people make it sound like his >shouldn't count because he can afford better care. No, he will never >have to worry about medical treatment or the rent. But why should that >make his PD so different? >Diseases don't just hurt the poor. Yes he can afford the treatments and >the best doctors. But that is no reason to judge him so harshly. If any >of us could afford the treatments for ourselves and/or our loved ones, >that he can we would. So since he can why shouldn't he? > >Michael J. Fox has always been an upbeat person and because he isn't >totally devasted by being a PWP, nor is his wife, they have received a >lot of criticism. > >Because he has hope for a cure, his hope has been ridiculed. Well, >where is life without hope? > >Because he can well afford treatments he has been really criticised. >Should he have waited until he was in the last stages of the disease >before having an operation? Then maybe it wouldn't have worked as well. >Who know. But it is his life and his call, and I am thankful that it >worked for him. >By Michael J. Fox having this operation, it might make more people >decide to also try it, or to at least look into it. It might make the >drs, work on perfecting it even more. Until someday that it isn't >something only done every now and then and only if you can afford it. >It seems to me that when certain operations are focused on that doctors >have a tendency to work on perfecting them. By him having th operation >he might have helped it along to being available to more people and at a >better cost.. I hope so anyway. > >So he has a job that he can ask them not to focus on his hands. That >doesn't mean that the individuals around him don't see his hands shake. >Those are the people he works with, and he can't hide from them, we are >only the people who enjoy his movies. So he probably experiences the >same embarrassment and frustration as does any PWP at work. > >He is an individual with an individual case of PD. He is a PWP but also >an actor with an image. He looks at life as something great, not >something doomed. What is wrong with that? >Laurie > > > >>Dear List Friends, >> >>We're appalled at the lack of compassion and quick, negative judgments >= >>shown by a number of members on this list. Who are we to sit in = >>judgment of Michael J. Fox? We tell the world that each case of = >>Parkinsons is unique. We, more than other people, should understand = >>this. Each of us faces this challenge in our own way, in our own time. >= >>Together we have the power to do much good, but not when we undermine = >>one another. We support the thoughtful and informed sharing of = >>opinions, but let's do so with our hearts open. If we thought that = >>Michael J. Fox and his wife were reading this list, we'd be embarrassed >= >>to be on it. Does anyone else feel this way? >> >>Len (62/4) and Hilary Zunin >> > > >______________________________________________________ >Get Your Private, Free Email at http://www.hotmail.com > >