On Monday, we clued you into the situation.
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Glenda Watson Hyatt (aka The Left Thumb Blogger, aka The Red Hot Motorcycle Mama) is a phenomenally talented writer, public speaker and entrepreneuse. On her award-winning and always-fascinating blog, she regularly shares her experiences living with cerebral palsy to motivate and inspire others to think about how they perceive their own situation and their own world around them. She does all this by typing with only her left thumb!
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The winner of the 2009 Short Film Faceoff—a competition co-sponsored by CBC Television in the Maritimes and the Atlantic Film Festival Association—is Glamour Guts, directed by Jasmine Oore (who was diagnosed with Crohn’s disease as a teen and had her colon removed in 2002). Oore’s win includes a $35,000 development/production deal from the CBC for her next project. The film has been described as “a three-minute blast of furious cinematic whimsy detailing one woman’s recovery from permanent digestive rearrangements” and “a shrewdly timed, freeze-frame-filled laugh riot.”
Bowel Disease has never been this sexy, glamorous, or in vogue!
Drew was born in September 2006 with profound hearing loss in both ears, which means he is deaf. In the summer of 2007, when he was 8½ months old, he became the youngest child in Ohio to receive simultaneous, bilateral cochlear implants. TurnOnMyEars.blogspot.com, written by Drew’s mom and dad, is a record of their efforts to “turn on” Drew’s ears and educate him with an auditory verbal philosophy.
So I had my annual booby-squashing this morning, and since I have recently become a Twitter addict (follow me @heidisa) I thought it would be funny to “live tweet” it, which basically means posting a running commentary to Twitter on the action. (It’s nothing compared to the Austin woman who recently live-tweeted the birth of her child, but whatever. We all do what we can.)
So…here goes:
Lewis Schofield has a new video up at YouTube. And it’s about his life with Myasthenia Gravis.
Here’s what Connie Foggles, author of the health blog My Chronic Life, had to say about it:
I came across this video from my Google Alert set to Myasthenia Gravis. I am amazed at the way that this young man who is only 13 is able to describe what MG is all about. Lewis Schofield, who also has Asperger Syndrome, a form of Autism, was diagnosed with MG in April of 2008. He was most likely 12. With his ability to make this video to educate people about this disease and to inspire people at the same time, I bet that there are offers for marketing jobs coming his way. I admire him. Plus he makes me really think that I need to be grateful for what I have. How can I complain after seeing what he is going through?
Irked Magazine proudly presents Tell Me What Time It Is: My Life With Myasthenia Gravis—a very brave and very powerful short-movie by the multi multi multi-talented Lewis Schofield. Our favourite part is found at 2:42 in the video and runs until 2:56. Talk about marketing and promotion!!
[*UPDATED: Due to re-editing, the favourite part that used to be found at 2:42 in the video and ran until 2:56 now starts at 2:31 and runs until 2:45. ]
by Rabbi Marc Wilson
AKA “Rabbi Rugless”
Dear Folks:
So sorry for this mass request, but it’s for a good cause.
Look Me in the Eye: My Life with Asperger’s
by John Elder Robison
Also available as a Random House AudioBook and eBook
HAROLD RUSSELL: LOST BOTH HANDS BUT WON TWO OSCARS
by Bruce Nunn
And now please welcome the actor from Nova Scotia who set an all-time record at Hollywood’s famous Academy Awards ceremony. He was awarded not one but two golden Oscar statuettes for the same movie role. Two for one! And it was a first. Plus, his performance in The Best Years of Our Lives was his first acting experience and, as a handicapped war veteran, he made his motion picture debut without hands. He was the amazing Harold Russell. In 2002 he passed away in his late eighties. But, my, what a life he had lived.
“I lost both my hands in an explosion when I was with the airborne troops,” he told me in a telephone interview from Boston back in 1996. TNT exploded in Click to continue »
