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Title: Saving Milly: Love, Politics, and Parkinson's Disease by Morton Kondracke, Michael J. Fox ISBN: 1-58648-037-5 Publisher: PublicAffairs Pub. Date: 22 May, 2001 Format: Hardcover Volumes: 1 List Price(USD): $25.00 |
Average Customer Rating: 4.47 (30 reviews)
Rating: 4
Summary: Saving Milly
Comment: As the subtitle suggests, this is really three books. One is about the relationship between the author and his wife. The second is about the politics of medical funding. The third is about Parkinson's disease, its symptoms, its progress, and its treatment.
The first story is mildly interesting. I find the ambitious Kondracke more interesting than his wife. I used to read Kondracke's pieces in THE NEW REPUBLIC and watch him on THE MCLAUGHLIN REPORT. He hasn't exactly ended up with the life he thought he wanted. In spite of his devotion to his wife, he must have occasional regrets about the things he hasn't achieved. He chose Milly, and he's sticking to her. It's what any decent person would have done, but many of us are not so decent.
The politics of medical funding was the dullest part of the book, and as a previous reviewer has said, no disease is without its advocates. It would be great to fund them all to the max, but it's not going to happen.
To me, the most interesting part of the book was the information about the disease itself and its effect on one real person, how she coped, and how she fought.
The Kondrackes appear to have plenty of money for additional caregivers, household help, and educations for their children. Everything is easier with money. I do not mean to belittle the suffering of this family, but I wonder what this experience is like for those who are less well off.
Rating: 5
Summary: An honest and deeply moving real life love story
Comment: "Saving Milly" is one of those rare self revelatory books that also contain a deeply passonate message for all to heed. For most of us, "In sickness and in health" are words avowed with no real snse of what they may mean. Morton Kondracke invites, cajoles and reveals to us the essence of what these words hold. Touchingly told, "Saving Milly" also contains a message about the reality of medical funding in America, or perhaps I should say, the reality of the lack of it, and urges all of us to become advocates for what we beleive in: love, commitment and passion for our particular cause. As we read this book, we too will be moved to help tilt the world in a slightly better direction. And in the process, perhaps, we will remember to reach into our own souls and tederly touch those whom we deeply love.
Rating: 5
Summary: Extremely moving story about a couple and their struggle
Comment: Morton Kondrake's book is about much more than his wife Milly's Parkinson's disease. It's also about their life together, their marriage, the differences that caused friction between them, Kondrake's struggles in his career and those to overcome his own weaknesses, including, for a time, alcoholism. What emerges is a story of quiet heroism, both his and Milly's, as she defies the odds and continues to prove that her will to live is greater than her despair. Kondrake also writes about the politics of research and fundraising for various diseases, and how some diseases have more cache than others, even if the disease garnering more print and air time afflicts far fewer people than other devastating ailments. This may not come as a shock to people but it is still important so that we can all do what we can to campaign to make disease research and funding more equitable.
I was most touched by Kondrake's unsparingly honest account of his own shortcomings as a man, a husband, and father, and how Milly, and eventually, her Parkinson's disease, made him grow into a far greater man than he was before. The fact that this is a true account makes this book very significant, and more moving than any fiction could be. It's impossible not to read it without tears.
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Title: Lucky Man : A Memoir by Michael J. Fox ISBN: 0786888741 Publisher: Hyperion Pub. Date: 09 April, 2003 List Price(USD): $12.95 |
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Title: A Life Shaken: My Encounter With Parkinson's Disease by Joel Havemann, Stephen G. Reich ISBN: 0801869285 Publisher: Johns Hopkins Univ Pr Pub. Date: April, 2002 List Price(USD): $26.00 |
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Title: Parkinson's Disease: A Complete Guide for Patients and Families (JOHNS HOPKINS PRESS HEALTH BOOK) by William J., Md. Weiner, Lisa M., Md. Shulman, Anthony E., Md. Lang ISBN: 0801865565 Publisher: Johns Hopkins Univ Pr Pub. Date: 15 April, 2001 List Price(USD): $16.95 |
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Title: Losing My Mind : An Intimate Look at Life with Alzheimer's by Thomas DeBaggio ISBN: 0743205650 Publisher: Free Press Pub. Date: 12 March, 2002 List Price(USD): $24.00 |
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Title: Limbo : A Memoir by A. Manette Ansay ISBN: 0380732874 Publisher: Perennial Pub. Date: 17 September, 2002 List Price(USD): $12.95 |
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