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Tuesday, November 8, 2011
A Major Sport Figure Dies
The news caught my attention. Joe Frazier died. I read the news today oh boy. It was about a former top ranked boxer in the news big time in the 1970's. He died of liver cancer and Muhammad Ali made his comment himself not in top fighting condition. Ali as many of you know has Parkinson's disease and is extremely limited in his mobility. Parkinson's disease isn't good to be sure an understatement. Not much news is reported from high celebrated figures like Ali when they are so afflicted by such a serious malady. Oh....I take that back the former Pope John Paul had Parkinson's disease and they showed him with worldwide news coverage despite his devastating affliction with this disease; it was not a pretty picture seeing him suffer like this. I have an interest in this disease because I know someone close with it. So what is my point? I believe Muhammad Ali has his intellect but it is just that his mobility is so affected by Parkinson's
that his physical appearance is of a horror story. The big news of Joe Frazier's death of recent days brings to light his major opponent in the boxing ring of the 1970's and so the light shines once again on Muhammad Ali not that I'm a fight fan so much as just a person like anyone of my readers out there in blog land who follows the news as it pertains to our self interests. Muhammad Ali is not a vegetable he is alive and has an intellect and a means to communicate his feelings even though now he can barely speak in words as he once did so glib and so vocal before he came down with Parkinson's. Parkinson's is progressive it just doesn't get any better with time and a cure for it in this era of time for someone like Ali isn't about to happen in his lifetime in as much as we are looking and hoping for a miracle. We know what they say about miracles. As of now we don't know what causes Parkinson's but in the case of Muhammad Ali
it doesn't take a rocket scientist to figure he got it from being hit so many times in the head. In my opinion he is spending the rest of his life in certain agony and suffering as to what degree only you and I can be the judge of that.
that his physical appearance is of a horror story. The big news of Joe Frazier's death of recent days brings to light his major opponent in the boxing ring of the 1970's and so the light shines once again on Muhammad Ali not that I'm a fight fan so much as just a person like anyone of my readers out there in blog land who follows the news as it pertains to our self interests. Muhammad Ali is not a vegetable he is alive and has an intellect and a means to communicate his feelings even though now he can barely speak in words as he once did so glib and so vocal before he came down with Parkinson's. Parkinson's is progressive it just doesn't get any better with time and a cure for it in this era of time for someone like Ali isn't about to happen in his lifetime in as much as we are looking and hoping for a miracle. We know what they say about miracles. As of now we don't know what causes Parkinson's but in the case of Muhammad Ali
it doesn't take a rocket scientist to figure he got it from being hit so many times in the head. In my opinion he is spending the rest of his life in certain agony and suffering as to what degree only you and I can be the judge of that.
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