[Bob]

Many who deal with this disease daily understand the challenges of the affects of their medication, and accept its limitations.

So it's perfectly OK that Fox, as he said in his own book, deliberately went off his meds before testifying to Congress so that he could better dramatize his condition? That's certainly a self-imposed 'limitation' on the effects of the medication but I consider it a clearly despicable one.

[mickey blue eyes]

I bet he was on his meds when he wrote the book or he wouldnt have made a wooden nickle

[WhiteGuy]

So it's perfectly OK that Fox, as he said in his own book, deliberately went off his meds before testifying to Congress so that he could better dramatize his condition?

Of course.

Does the masking of pain with narcotics diminish the cause of the original pain?

Do the use of prosthetics to replace the body parts lost to disease somehow minimize the severity of the origin of the illness?

I'll answer again, YES, It is absolutely OK that Fox went without his medication to draw attention to a condition that affects so many Americans.