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Barb: Again, no big deal here, but thought I'd share the response
received from WNEM-TV in Sault Ste Marie, MI (Parkinsaw Country) re
doing a story on the Archbishop Tutu Prayer and on World's Parkinson's
Awareness Month.
John Bjork
A View from the Lighter Side
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Thanks for letting us know. We will try to do a story.
Sincerely,
Jennifer Hogan
News Director
>>> john bjork <[log in to unmask]> 04/02 10:08 AM >>>
TO: WNEM News Desk Editors: We would greatly appreciate your airing
this significant news Bulletin in connection with World Parkinson's
Disease Awareness Month in April.
***ARCHBISHOP TUTU TO HELP PARKINSON'S DISEASE SUFFERERS***
South Africa's Desmond M. Tutu, Archbishop Emeritus and Nobel Peace
Laureate, Robert W. Woodruff Visiting Professor of Theology, Emory
University, Atlanta, Georgia, USA has offered to issue a prayer for all
those worldwide who are suffering from Parkinson's Disease to mark World
Parkinson's Awareness Month in April.
The Archbishop offered to write a prayer for the occasion following a
telephone conversation and a long emailed letter from Ivan Suzman,
Portland, Maine, who has advanced Young Onset Parkinson's. Suzman, a
disabled anthropologist, (and formerly a leading anti-apartheid
activist) has become a Parkinson's activist and a member of the
Parkinson
Information Exchange Network (PIEN), an internet discussion list,
notified members of the list of the Archbishop's willingness to "do
something for those suffering from Parkinson's". Later, Tutu's office
notified the listowner, Barbara Patterson, another Young Onset"
Parkinsonian and a secretary at McMaster University School of Nursing,
Hamilton, Ontario, Canada, that the Archbishop had decided that his
prayer will be issued through PIEN. Patterson's internet list has more
than 1,800 subscribers in 36 countries.
Parkinson's Disease (PD) is a chronic, slowly progressive neurological
condition that affects a small area of cells in the mid brain known as
the substantia nigra. Gradual degeneration of these cells causes a
reduction in a vital chemical known as "dopamine". This decrease in
dopamine can produce one or more of the classic signs of Parkinson's
Disease.
Although an estimated 15% of patients are diagnosed before age 50, PD is
generally considered a disease which targets older adults. Parkinson's
disease affects up to 10%, in some populations, of those persons over
the age of 60. To date, there is no known prevention or cure for
Parkinson's
Disease.
Notable persons with the disease include Pope John Paul II, Muhammad
Ali American Attorney General, Janet Reno, Gandhi photographer Margaret
Bourke-White and actor Michael J. Fox.
Submitted by: John R Bjork
(304) 229-2006
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