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There is Hope in the Form of a Glove for Parkinson’s Patients
When he was a 24-year-old medical student living in London, Faii Ong was assigned to care for a 103-year-old patient who suffered from Parkinson’s, the progressive neurological condition that affects a person’s ease of movement. After watching her struggle to eat a bowl of soup, Ong asked another nurse what more could be done to help the woman. “There’s nothing,” he was grimly told. Ong, now 26, didn’t accept the answer.
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I really don't see this as hope since it does not fix the neurological basis of the problem.
It could be ‘hope.’ In the same sense that a drunk suffering the D.T.s and shaking so badly they’re unable to lift a glass to their lips might find ‘hope’ in tying a scarf or a necktie to their drinking wrist, putting it around their neck and raising their desperately-needed drink like they would a set of blinds. ‘Hope’ to go on, at least, if not for a cure. Some drunks need to drink — can’t physically survive the physiological stress of quitting. “There’s many a slip twixt the cup and the lip” is as much curse as epitaph.
Ah,ok. Point well made.