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Friday
Former Gov. Gardner calls Parkinsons surgery "raging success" (click for more):
"Former Gov. Booth Gardner, who has battled Parkinson's Disease for 15 years, is recovering from two deep-brain surgeries that he calls a 'raging success' and is raring to get to work on education reform and a statewide 'assisted death' initiative.
Gardner spoke Tuesday in his first interview since his surgeries, the last on July 20. He said he's feeling fine, has gone through a divorce and has moved to a waterview condo in Tacoma. He has a live-in caretaker and his grown children, Gail and Doug, check in on him.
The former Democratic governor, 70, a millionaire heir to the Weyerhaeuser fortune, led the state from 1985 to 1993 following terms as Pierce County executive, state senator and dean of the business school at the University of Puget Sound. He could have easily won a third term, but stepped down, saying he had 'run out of gas.'
He took a White House appointment as a U.S. trade ambassador in Geneva, and eventually was diagnosed with Parkinson's Disease. He said medications enabled him to lead a fairly normal life for 12 years after the diagnosis, but that he worsened until he was drugged all the time and had only about 8 percent of the normal control of his body.
In February and again in July, he traveled to the hospital at the University of California at San Francisco for innovative deep-brain surgery that included implanting a type of pacemaker that helps restore control of his body..."
"Former Gov. Booth Gardner, who has battled Parkinson's Disease for 15 years, is recovering from two deep-brain surgeries that he calls a 'raging success' and is raring to get to work on education reform and a statewide 'assisted death' initiative.
Gardner spoke Tuesday in his first interview since his surgeries, the last on July 20. He said he's feeling fine, has gone through a divorce and has moved to a waterview condo in Tacoma. He has a live-in caretaker and his grown children, Gail and Doug, check in on him.
The former Democratic governor, 70, a millionaire heir to the Weyerhaeuser fortune, led the state from 1985 to 1993 following terms as Pierce County executive, state senator and dean of the business school at the University of Puget Sound. He could have easily won a third term, but stepped down, saying he had 'run out of gas.'
He took a White House appointment as a U.S. trade ambassador in Geneva, and eventually was diagnosed with Parkinson's Disease. He said medications enabled him to lead a fairly normal life for 12 years after the diagnosis, but that he worsened until he was drugged all the time and had only about 8 percent of the normal control of his body.
In February and again in July, he traveled to the hospital at the University of California at San Francisco for innovative deep-brain surgery that included implanting a type of pacemaker that helps restore control of his body..."