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This was a very powerful segment, for lack of a better word. My mother has Parkinson's and the honesty of the Doctor made me realize some feelings that probably reside behind my Mom's tough "life goes on" exterior. Thank you for the amazing interview!

I was heartbroken to listen to your interview yesterday. Dr. Graboys was my father's cardiologist for 7 years. He was a wonderful physician - warm, caring, compassionate and brilliant. This is a tragedy - personal and professional.

I appreciated this interview and have great
respect and sympathy for the doctor. I tried
to e-mail Dr. Graboys with some info I thought
promising, but the e-mail addresses were
apparently broken. If you do some web research
on URIDINE, especially in combination with
Parkinson's and Alzheimer's, it points to a
possibly promising direction for treatment.
The show has my e-mail address above if the
doctor would like to receive my note.

My favorite uncle died of Parkinson's a few years ago. It was difficult to listen, but one had to because of Dr. Graboys' great courage and Lenny's sensitivity, compassion and courage as well. It was a riveting interview.

yes, ditto to Dawn Gavin's observation and thanks for both that sensitivity and the comment.

I just wanted to say how much respect I have for you for your extremely sensitive handling of the author during the interview. You don't often hear such kindness and humanity in radio interviews.

I've worked with many late-stage Parkinson's patients, and from this experience I found that the desire to end one's life is a common one among them. The inability, in a truly late-stage individual, to move one's body at all, coupled with dementia, must be akin to a vegetative state, or worse, trapped in one's own body. I understand this desire, and I think the government should consider the option as a sanctioned one.

I wonder if the good doctor is aware of the work of the parkinson's recovery project at http://pdrecovery.org/. There it is pointed out that the uncontrolable body movements of parkinson's sufferers are primarily side-effects of parkinson's drugs, not symptoms of parkinson's itself. This is suggested by Leonard's comments about Michael J. Fox.

I appreciate this conversation. It is very real, very intense. I respect your guest a great deal.

I wonder if the doctor is familiar with Continuum's protocols, (Emilie Conrad) which were presented for the first time last year at Harvard's first faschia conference (ergo the discoveries are not so easy to dismiss any more). Maybe very very interesting to him. Some amazing recoveries have come about - this is an outgrowth of the artform she was pursuing in the 50s. No need to ask on air - he just might be interested in finding out about this.