--- In [email protected], "authfriend" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > --- In [email protected], "shempmcgurk" <shempmcgurk@> > wrote: > > > > --- In [email protected], "authfriend" <jstein@> > > wrote: > <snip> > > > Fox: I wasn't off meds in political > > > By FRAZIER MOORE, Associated Press TV Writer > > > > > > In a response to charges by conservative talk-show host Rush > > > Limbaugh, Michael J. Fox defended his appearance in recent > > > political campaign ads, saying he was neither acting nor off > > > his medication for Parkinson's disease. > > > > > > On the contrary, he had been overmedicated, the actor said > > > during an interview aired on Thursday's "CBS Evening News > > > with Katie Couric." > > > > > > "The irony of it is that I was too medicated," Fox told Couric, > > > adding that his jumpy condition as he spoke to her reflected "a > > > dearth of medication not by design. I just take it, and it > > > kicks in when it kicks in." > > > > > > "That's funny the notion that you could calculate it for > > > effect," he said. "Would that we could." > > > > That's interesting because I heard someone read from his > > book where he said that that was exactly what he did when > > he appeared before Congress: he went off his meds for effect. > > I think he means you can't calculate the effect of > the medication when you're taking it, in terms of > when it "kicks in" and how much good it does. You > *can* calculate the effect of going off it: you'll be > much worse, guaranteed. > > Bear in mind that Parkinson's is progressive, and > that his congressional testimony occurred some years > ago. I suspect he wouldn't have been able to do the > commercial at all if he'd gone off the medication, > because his condition has deteriorated in the interim.
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