So here’s an ad for a Senate Candidate in Missouri where Michael J Fox is offering his support.
Mr. Fox, as many people might know, has Parkinson’s disease. Pretty advanced, too.
Parkinson's, at the minimum, causes debilitating involuntary tremors, and at it's worst can seize up all the muscles in your body - pretty much putting an end to anything resembling a functional life.
Politics aside, is it any surprise what his views are on this matter?
I wouldn't think it would be.
He’s been campaigning for breakthroughs in Parkinson’s research as strongly as the late Christopher Reeve did for neural regenerative therapies.
You don’t like the candidate he’s supporting, fine.
One could criticize him for that.
But, of course, you wouldn’t go and insult the man, claim he’s faking his symptoms or making it look intentionally more severe than it is, just so you could score some political point.
Right?
Well, apparently that's all that some people have left.
So, Mr. Limbaugh, Michael J Fox is acting? His symptoms are just a big fake?
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May God grant, sir, that you never suffer from any such illness, for the absence of compassion you will receive will strike like a blow.
But you won’t notice, since you, apparently, have no soul.
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For what it’s worth, sir, I know very well what I’m seeing in this ad.
I know it VERY WELL.
I’ve seen it, in it's early stages, expressed from my own mother's body - my own mother, who has been coping with this illness for eight years.
And seeing the advanced stages in Mr. Fox scares me greatly, on a very personal level.
And you’re saying it’s an ACT?
Or at best he was “off his meds” and somehow lying to play a cheap political stunt?
That may be the normal way of doing your job, but I am pretty sure you are, with all due respect, full of crap.
I can educate you to exactly what you’re seeing.
But, in my personal estimation, you are not worth spending time with, since you are not much more than a walking zombie.
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For those that actually DO want to know: Fox is significantly advanced in the disease. In his case, his body just seizes up... without any drug treatment, he would be practically stone still – he wouldn’t be able to walk or even talk.
With the drug L-Dopa (also called Levodopa, and one of the ingredients in Sinemet), these symptoms are dramatically reduced.
However, one of the most common side effects of L-Dopa is this swaying movement, called dyskinesia. As defined here:
Dyskinesia can take many forms, most often uncontrolled flailing of the arms and legs or chorea, rapid and repetitive motions that can affect the limbs, face, tongue, mouth, and neck. Dyskinesia is not painful, but it is very distressing.
In simple terms, the more severe the Parkinson’s, the more L-Dopa you must take to remain a functional human being. The more L-Dopa you take, the more you sway.
Mr. Fox has a choice. Either sway dramatically, or become nearly paralyzed.
So, no, sir, he was not “off his meds” nor was he “acting”.
He was surviving as best one can with this disease and we can see the cost of that survival in his motions.
And you, sir, spat in Mr. Fox’s face, and in the face of my mother, and in the faces of 60,000 Americans who, just this year, will be diagnosed with Parkinsons, and the 1.5 million Americans that are already are suffering with it.
Of course, we know you don’t care about the rest of the world.
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Somewhere on some remote, desolate, and forgotten island, deep in a cave there is, huddled in a dank, dark corner, a small shadow, whimpering and crying, lost and afraid, having no memory of where it once lived.
It is a soul that was once named "Rush". It doesn’t remember the name, and if it was reminded of that name it would only weep more and beg for oblivion.
But that is what happens when you torture your soul, you know.
It doesn’t die.
It hides, it forgets.
It withers and rots.
I feel sorry for that soul.
It deserved better than you.
7 comments:
Rush needs to be put out of his misery and ours.
What an oxy-cotin ass.
Great post ;)
What an excellent post Atari - Rush deserves every evil that can befall a man...
Wow - amazing post man. I don't know what to say...
Limbaugh is an asshole. I would not expect anything better from him, but I can't understand why people actually believe the crap he says. I don' remember the exact words, but he once sent some of his redneck insults towards drug addicts implying that they were not sick people, just losers or something like that, and why should we spend our tax $$ treating them. Later on, it turns out he was addicted to the prescription pain medication Oxicontin. He's a real jewel, but the worst thing is that there are a lot of people out there, many supposedly well educated, that take him seriously. Very scary.
The current administration has encouraged or at least benignly tolerated a whole human sub-species--Pat Robertson, Rush Limbaugh, the unspeakable Ann Coulter--who are among the worst sleaze I have ever encountered. Hate merchants run amok.
We have our own home-grown example in Kerry Healey who runs an ad that equates Deval Patrick with his brother-in-law who some years ago abused and even raped his wife who is Deval's sister. Deval never sank to her level. She chose to run her campaign from the gutter and her candidacy is now IN the gutter where it so richly deserves to be.
Americans are finally waking up. It's frustrating and sad that it took this long, but I firmly believe that rejection and retribution will be the Republicans' reward on November 7th. it couldn't happen to a more deserving gang of ignorant, homophobic, egotistical slime.
This whole thing really pisses me off, too. I am sick of a small minority trying to impose their beliefs on others...I'm surprised that Rush didn't make fun of Terry Schavo - oops,I forgot, the Rs wanted to 'save' her...
Limbaugh is dispicable, always has been.
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