Answers from Levesque coming

[rayilynlee <rayilynlee@xxxxxxx>]

Rayilyn Brown
Board Member AZNPF
Arizona Chapter National Parkinson's Foundation
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From: "NeuroGeneration" <levesque@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
To: "rayilynlee" <rayilynlee@xxxxxxx>; "Wesley J. Smith"
<wjs@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>; "parkinsn" <parkinsn@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Cc: <levesque@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>; "Don C. Reed"
<diverdonreed@xxxxxxxxxxx>; "Yvonne Perry" <vonneperry@xxxxxxxxxxx>
Sent: Friday, June 22, 2007 9:59 AM
Subject: Re: Brain surgery


> Dear Rayilyn,
> I did receive your previous email earlier this week
> but did not have time to reply to it. I will send you
> a separate response today.
>
> Sincerely
> M.Levesque,MD
>
> --- rayilynlee <rayilynlee@xxxxxxx> wrote:
>
> > Mr. Smith
> >
> > Do  you have any understanding of what is involved
> > in brain surgery as a "treatment" for disease?
> > Especially the kind you must be awake for?   My 2
> > DBSs cost $100,000 or thereabouts.  Even if a person
> > could get his life back due  to these surgeries do
> > you want to pay for  millions of them?
> >
> > Did I ask you before  - why hasn't Turner had the
> > 2nd treatment he wants?  What happened to Levesque's
> > Phase II?  He never responded to my questions.
> > Maybe you have the "pull" to find out.
> >
> > DBS has helped control my tremors, but I''m still in
> > a wheelchair and strangle when I try to speak.  My
> > hands are like paws.
> >
> > It is easy for you to be "hopeful".  I'm too old at
> > 71 to expect help in my lifetime, but it is just
> > unforgiveable to value cells over people and block
> > research.  What about young people and children
> > disabled by injury or disease?  What happened to
> > their right to life, liberty, and the pursuuit of
> > happiness?  What do these rights mean to a cell?
> >
> > Rayilyn Brown
> > Board Member AZNPF
> > Arizona Chapter National Parkinson's Foundation
> > rbrown@xxxxxxxxx

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