Monday, April 26, 2010

Humble Pie is Hard to Swallow but Very Nutritious

I am one of five contributors to the HowIFightMS blog. I was thrilled to learn that the site was nominated for a Webby award in the Online Film and Video Reality category. If you'd like to vote for us, go here.

And then I saw the beautifully produced submission video. OMG!

Let me just say, that I believe that each of us has our own personal Higher Power...so it stands to reason, I guess, that mine would have a really twisted sense of humor...kind of like mine. The video essay they chose to use for my clip? It was one line from one video I  recorded about how some people with MS have incontinence issues and my idea for Depends Thongs. For the record, I do NOT have bladder control issues but it's a pretty funny idea for an essay, right? The line they included was the first line I spoke where I was trying to sound  like a June Allison Depends commercial. Out of context, it sounds like I'm confessing  that I, too, have bladder control problems.

I think the timing of this video submission is hysterically humbling. Two short days ago, I was feeling diseased and defective for having MS and wrote about it here in yesterday's post. Then today, I find out there is a very public perception that I regularly and involuntarily pee my pants. The Universe is a riot sometimes. But you know what? It kind of made me  feel better! It was so insanely absurd that I had to laugh. I am who I am and part of me--the central nervous system part--has Multiple Sclerosis. And all of me chooses to find the humor in that fact. If that is unattractive to others, oh well.

3 comments:

  1. What?!! You mean that YOU don't have bladder control issues sometimes? And I thought that this particular vlog came from personal experience. :)

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  2. Hey, great stuff. I'm wonderful, brave, amazing, just like you guys. I never realised it until I got MS, now people tell it to me often, just for not crawling into a hole and weeping! Maybe if the whole world had MS, we would stop fighting over things!?

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  3. ha! very funny, but i don't think i want to see june alison in a thong - depends or not. necessity is the mother of invention, so i'm sure there are a lot of great ideas - like yours - out there. i am trying to develop straps that attach to my shoes for haulng my feet into the car.

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