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Vatican Confirms Pope Has Parkinson's Disease
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| 16 May 2003
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Posted on 05/17/2003 12:25:13 PM PDT by AmericanInTokyo
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Parkinson's isn't pretty but it can be controlled with appropriate drugs. At his age its amazing the Pope has a full schedule that would tax a 15 year old's abilities. Then again at 83 you should be able to enjoy whatever years left God has given you.
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05/17/2003 12:28:54 PM PDT
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goldstategop
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To: AmericanInTokyo
He puts himself in the hands of God and feels God and the Madonna (news - web sites) by his side in the path of life," he was quoted as saying. If you click on that link in the Yahoo page, I don't think it was that Madonna this person was referring to.
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posted on
05/17/2003 12:33:33 PM PDT
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tdadams
To: tdadams
Yahoo! or the AP goofed! I'm surprised, really... (sarcasm). That pop "star" has helped corrupt our society and has abused a name that is venerated.
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posted on
05/17/2003 12:36:48 PM PDT
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Pyro7480
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To: goldstategop
Parkinsons affect everyone differently. Some folks go for years with slight symptoms and the help of drugs.
Some dive right off the cliff and nothing helps and some are somewhere in between.
Parkinsons is really simply a generic label for a variety of neuro disorders that center around the lack of dopamine secretion is it not?
From what I've seen, the older...the quicker. It's been obvious to anyone that the Pope has had this for some time.
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posted on
05/17/2003 12:38:35 PM PDT
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wardaddy
(The Oklahoma kid laid dying in a women's wing, Just another indian biting dust)
To: gcruse
My goodness. What an interesting private FR profile page you have there, gc (or g?) -- AIT
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posted on
05/17/2003 12:38:40 PM PDT
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AmericanInTokyo
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To: AmericanInTokyo
There must be two threads here.
I just did a Prayer Ping on this.
Hmmmmmm.
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posted on
05/17/2003 12:38:46 PM PDT
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Salvation
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05/17/2003 12:42:23 PM PDT
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Salvation
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Prayer Ping!
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posted on
05/17/2003 12:43:21 PM PDT
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Salvation
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To: AmericanInTokyo
Thank you, AIT. I update it frequently. Ya'll come, ya heah?
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posted on
05/17/2003 12:45:17 PM PDT
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gcruse
(Vice is nice, but virtue can hurt you. --Bill Bennett)
To: wardaddy
My experience in working in nursing homes is that you are correct, it does affect different people in different ways. Some suffer very few physical symptoms but have severely impaired judgement. Since the symptoms seems so wide and varied, Parkinsons Disease is more like a neurological symptom group rather than a diagnosis in and of itself. I have known patients that never have 'shakes' or 'tremors'. In the end, 'old age' has many names.
To: goldstategop
Parkinson's isn't pretty but it can be controlled with appropriate drugs. I've heard that marijuana might help.
Nearly half of Parkinson's disease patients who have tried marijuana say the drug helped relieve their symptoms, according to a survey of patients with the degenerative neurological disorder. Dr. Evzin Ruzicka, an attending neurologist at Charles University in Prague in the Czech Republic, reported the findings here at the Movement Disorders Society's Seventh International Congress of Parkinson's Disease and Movement Disorders.
Marijuana May Ease Parkinson's Symptoms
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posted on
05/17/2003 12:49:38 PM PDT
by
ActionNewsBill
(Police state? What police state?)
To: TrebleRebel
My 75 year old uncle has it. It hit hard but now it's stabilized a bit. He describes it as "telling my leg to move and my leg waiting 5 seconds or so to obey". He still has his wits largely.
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posted on
05/17/2003 12:53:10 PM PDT
by
wardaddy
(The Oklahoma kid laid dying in a women's wing, Just another indian biting dust)
To: AmericanInTokyo
I will continue to pray for the Pope's health as I always have, but hasn't it been obvious for some time that the Pope has Parkinson's???
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posted on
05/17/2003 12:55:55 PM PDT
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Mo1
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To: tdadams
I don't think it was that Madonna this person was referring to. Yep, there is a big difference between THE Madonna and that Madonna.
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posted on
05/17/2003 12:58:07 PM PDT
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Slyfox
To: AmericanInTokyo
Prayers for the Holy Father.
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posted on
05/17/2003 12:59:23 PM PDT
by
P.O.E.
To: wardaddy
Ditto to your "...It's been obvious..for a long time"
And, that explains why the Vatican social-justice-leftist crowd has the Pope stating their "type" of "sock puppet" talking points.
Mustang sends from "Malpaso News"
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posted on
05/17/2003 1:00:09 PM PDT
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Mustang
(Evil Thrives When Good People Do Nothing!)
To: AmericanInTokyo; gcruse
>>My goodness. What an interesting private FR profile page you have there, gc (or g?) -- AIT<<
g seems to have a problem with the concept of religious prosciptions against certain behaviors. Telling, isn't it?
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05/17/2003 1:01:02 PM PDT
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Jeff Chandler
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