--- In [email protected], "Alex Stanley" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > --- In [email protected], "authfriend" <jstein@> 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. > > The video of Fox talking to Couric is available online: > > http://tinyurl.com/ymjywl
The audio is way out of synch in parts of this, but the way he is in this video is exactly what I've been reading from neurologists, which I mentioned in my previous post: with less of an effect from the medication, he's much more rigid, almost expressionless, has trouble articulating words, and the extraneous movements are smaller and jerky and tight, rather than loose and fluid as they are in the commercial. So his explanation makes perfect sense: overmedication loosens up the muscles and reduces control, while undermedication leaves the muscles too tight to move normally. Presumably there's a happy medium at some point, but apparently that happens if and when it happens; you can't arrange for it to happen. To subscribe, send a message to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Or go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/FairfieldLife/ and click 'Join This Group!' Yahoo! Groups Links <*> To visit your group on the web, go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/FairfieldLife/ <*> Your email settings: Individual Email | Traditional <*> To change settings online go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/FairfieldLife/join (Yahoo! ID required) <*> To change settings via email: mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] <*> To unsubscribe from this group, send an email to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] <*> Your use of Yahoo! Groups is subject to: http://docs.yahoo.com/info/terms/
