Last Fall, Patti with the Michigan MS Society asked me if I was willing to be in a photo shoot for the National MS Society’s re-branding. Sure I was! We conversed through email to find a place to take my pictures. We talked about my house (which is teeny!), my son playing football at his school because I LOVE watching it! My school, or at Barwis. Well, that decision was easy. Barwis is really big and could accommodate the fleet of people who would be there (there was a make-up lady,two photographers, a couple other people, and Patti. We agreed to meet at Barwis when it was my time. I got there and it was crazy! The hair and make up lady set up to do my hair and make up and it was so strange because I was at Barwis where I am SO comfortable but I kind of felt like a celebrity!
The photographers and Patty were talking to Elle to sign the necessary paperwork and to set it all up as the lady was doing my make up. I had been coming here for over two years and I knew all the guys there but I never thought about me NEVER wearing make up there. They all were surprised and made comments about me wearing make up when I was finished. I was kind of embarrassed! The photographers set up the lights and then it seriously felt like paparazzi! There were lights flashing all over the place! I again was embarrassed! One of the photographers sent me the pictures they would use for the re-branding with the new year. Then I forgot about that.
I received an email from a from a woman with the National MS Society who wanted to interview me at the end of February and we set up a time for a phone interview. The woman was very nice to speak with and I’m a talker so we talked a long time. She sent me a copy of the article that she had written and some quotes I had said that she would use. I thought the article sounded pretty cool and she picked some really good quotes! Then I forgot about that too.
Patti emailed me June 3rd and told me that I was on the National MS Society’s Facebook page.
Well I thought that was pretty cool! I was famous! ? Then I received a text on June 24th from my friend who also has MS and she told me that she really loved the article in the MS Connection newsletter. What?! She asked if I received it and I had not so I asked my mom to check my mail. I had just gotten it. So I started flipping through it and there I was! On page 8! The ENTIRE page! Then I received a text from another friend who jokingly asked me for my autograph. She had made a donation to the MS Society a few years ago and she received the newsletter also!
A little while later, I received a comment on my blog. It was from a woman who also has MS and read the article in the newsletter! We’ve become friends and converse via email often. It’s nice to talk with someone who knows what it’s like to have MS and who I would not have known if it wasn’t for the article in the MS Connection newsletter!
Last weekend, I received another text from a friend who sent me screenshots He told me that I was on Facebook (even though I, myself, don’t do Facebook):
Now this last picture I have seen before in an email but the article that went with it did not go with the picture. I didn’t think much of it then… but now I kind of feel bigtime!