![]() ![]() Low brain activity means fewer neurons firing, or in my case, mis-firing. Technically, my body is only fully at peace when my mind is completely at rest - that is, asleep. Most mornings, for example, I awake to find my left pinky finger perfectly still - it's the rest of my body that's shaking uncontrollably. In the intervening years, my life has seen many changes. ![]() In the opening pages of Lucky Man, I described a morning in Florida nineteen years ago when I woke up with a hangover and a twitching left pinky finger. The actor, who retired from his hit sitcom "Spin City" in 2000 because of the disease, tells his personal story of how he turned his challenges into opportunities in his new book, "Always Looking Up: The Adventures of an Incurable Optimist."įox begins the book with his retirement and the struggle of shifting between his public and private personas. Fox has been a tireless spokesman for Parkinson's disease research. Ap— - For the last decade, Michael J. ![]()
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