Fwd: Dupuytren's Advance Info for John Podesta

From:Luzzatto@aol.com To: podesta@ici.org, john.podesta@gmail.com Date: 2009-12-20 16:06 Subject: Fwd: Dupuytren's Advance Info for John Podesta

Hoping this gets to you from my close friend and fellow-hand-sufferer, Patrick Schmidt. We had a Luzzattopalooza yesterday, with Marisa-Paul-10 month Evie staying with us already while their house gets painted, and Ben-Alex sledding their 3 over to "help" us decorate the tree. When the parents got back to retrieve children, they threw in the towel (and about 19 pieces of winter clothing) to stay for tortellini and an overnight. So, 6 grownups with 2 toddlers and 2 infants spread throughout the house, and sure enough one of those toddlers was rubbing my nose at 5:45.......... David has been shoveling for 3 hours straight, first helping Ann Pincus dig out her car with Walter recovering from major back surgery, and then joining in with other neighbors to clear out our alley and now out front. I'm doing the Santa wrapping thing. Below, again, is from Pat to John. Merry holidays to all. Love, us ____________________________________ Hi Tamera, On a routine visit to our Dr. Li, he gave me an abstract for a September N.Eng. J. of Med. article touting the success of a study injecting collagenase into Dupuytren's cords. Although not yet approved by the FDA, Dr. Li thinks this is big news and recommended I check it out with my hand surgeon as an alternative to my next surgery. He also gave me info on one of the authors Dr. Hotchkiss who practices in NYC. I had tried to get into the SUNY study a couple of years ago but was too late. I recall chatting with fellow Dupuytren's sufferer John Podesta out at your farm about alternatives to surgery, and thought perhaps you could forward the attachments to him. I have an e-mail address for him from my mailings from American Progress, but I suspect if I send to that it may get caught up in some spam filter or something. love, Trick ____________________________________ Hotmail: Free, trusted and rich email service. _Get it now._ (http://clk.atdmt.com/GBL/go/171222984/direct/01/) =