Saving Milly

Description for SAVING MILLY: LOVE, POLITICS, AND PARKINSON'S DISEASE by Morton Kondracke with a foreword by Michael J Fox: Morton Kondracke did not intend to marry Millicent Martinez. He intended to marry an Ivy League heiress whose connections and credentials might help his career. But Milly -- a Mexican American, inner city Chicago kid and daughter of a radical labor organizer who grew up to be a dynamo -- eventually captured his heart. They married, and loved and fought with each other passionately for twenty years. Then one day in 1987, Milly noticed a glitch in her handwriting; a small tremor which would lead to the shattering diagnosis of Parkinson's disease.SAVING MILLY is Kondracke's powerfully moving chronicle of his vital and volatile marriage; one that has endured and deepened despite the devastating physical and emotional effects of a chronic and as-yet incurable disease. It is also the inspiring, sometimes astoundingly frank story of his own transformation from caree