Natalie
Senior Member (Voting Rights)
Perhaps. It is clear enough in the video in her name strap and I was trying to keep to the specified word count.Perhaps it should say 'Valerie Eliot Smith, a barrister with ME'?
Perhaps. It is clear enough in the video in her name strap and I was trying to keep to the specified word count.Perhaps it should say 'Valerie Eliot Smith, a barrister with ME'?
Thanks Trish. I shall feel happier when I get to the end of the Wellcome form and can get the final money to pay Josh for his work on the last film! There are some difficult questions like listing the key findings from an evaluation of the project - including impact/benefit to the audience involved in the project..and to the team members including the researchers/scientific experts involved..and or the area of scientific research!Thanks for the update, @Natalie. You should be very proud of your achievement with this whole project.
I'm afraid that how much it gets seen is entirely up to others. I have worked flat out on this project for the last four years, including working completely unpaid on the Tangled Story for the last year, to save the remaining funding for paying for the final professional editing work to turn it into a good quality film (under covid conditions).It really is a good video. It was quite poignant to see Graham in the film and photos of Bob and Alem.
And I apologise how this might sound, I have little tether ATM and this is important to me so while seeing the video is all well and good and it is well done I would like very much for us to have information shared that would make it even better (in terms of being hopeful about it's impact) -- like what are the plans for getting this video into the hands of people who don't know what we know and how might we be able to help (for those of us on social media)?. I'm sure it will play just as well in countries outside the UK.
Anybody know the plan? Unless it gets press and lots of people watching (and some of those people being in a position to help) . . .
I'm sure this has been addressed and thought through I'm just saying that us knowing what the plan is could be useful and or encouraging.
Natalie, you're a super hero who has achieved so much. Thank you from the bottom of my heart. I also feel for you as I'm also the parent of a daughter with decades of severe ME. Take care of yourself too.I can't do more than I am doing. I actually find what I need to consider now, the future for our daughter, extremely stressful to the point of being almost impossible to face!
Thank you very much, to all of you.. My family usually sighs a sigh of relief when we get to the end of February, but this year there is not much to be relieved about in the world at the moment, and it makes our daughters' futures all the more perilous.Natalie, you're a super hero who has achieved so much. Thank you from the bottom of my heart. I also feel for you as I'm also the parent of a daughter with decades of severe ME. Take care of yourself too.![]()
I'm afraid that how much it gets seen is entirely up to others. I have worked flat out on this project for the last four years, including working completely unpaid on the Tangled Story for the last year, to save the remaining funding for paying for the final professional editing work to turn it into a good quality film (under covid conditions).
As a carer for a very vulnerable and generally housebound ME patient, needing a lot of help for the last 30 plus years, I have a lot to do to catch up on everything I haven't managed to do over the last 4 years. My family needs me now.... and I can't manage much more ME advocacy at the moment. The project has been hosted or linked to by major Uk charities and is referenced by many websites around the world, as well as being referenced in education and training materials for students and doctors.
There are some people who share it with other significant people, and many who regularly try to get it noticed via twitter where it has been particularly noticed by physio groups and Long Covid patients, many of whom are medical professionals.
So I think it will get noticed more and more. It has actually reached a much bigger audience than I originally envisaged when planning the project. I have been preparing the subtitles for the Tangled Story, but Josh has too much work on over the next few weeks to be able to add them, in any vanishingly small amount of free time he might have with a small child to look after and both parents working.
He will add them when things cool down again. So it is up to charities and patients to share the video and the project as best they can. I can't do more than I am doing. I actually find what I need to consider now, the future for our daughter, extremely stressful to the point of being almost impossible to face!
I can't do more than I am doing. I actually find what I need to consider now, the future for our daughter, extremely stressful to the point of being almost impossible to face!
That is great to hear that the trailer for Voices made such an impact. There are transcripts for some of the Dialogues videos already up: The Prologue, two PEM ones and Activity Management/Pacing. There are links or download buttons under the videos. I will prepare others at some point... especially the Severe ME ones. I have the subtitles/ close captions for The Tangled Story prepared, but Josh has too much other work on to add them for the moment. He does all the website work. I don't have a clue about how to do it!My cognitive fatigability, including from watching videos, has worsened so haven't watched the 'Dialogues' yet but look forward to reading the transcripts when they will be available.
I'm sure the 'Dialogues' are a very valuable source, though, and would like to add my thanks to Natalie.
Ten years ago, when I gave a presentation on my voluntary work at that time to a group of students in the scholarship program I attended, I included the "Voices from the Shadows" film trailer. We all were involved in different voluntary work and we had talked about our involvement before.
The feedback I received after the presentation was clear. The film trailer made a difference. I remember especially one attendee saying: 'Only after having seen the film trailer I realized what this disease is about.'
Now Natalie... , have a well earned rest, respite and a little 'me' (not ME) time!?https://meassociation.org.uk/2022/08/howes-goudsmit-prize-awarded-natalie-boulton-josh-biggs/ The ME Association announces they have awarded me and Josh the Howes Goudsmit prize for our work on Severe/Very Severe ME/CFS. I'm sad that Graham has missed this, as he gave me a lot of help and encouragement. I started the Hospital Admissions video from scratch three times over as he and Rob were not happy with the first two attempts! I can't use Rob's surname as his son didn't want to be identifiable. I'd only intended to make one short Severe ME video... but as usual, they grew! I recorded a bit for MEA on my laptop, as it gave me a chance to say a bit more about what particularly concerns me now. There are two sections with me speaking in their video.
https://meassociation.org.uk/2022/08/howes-goudsmit-prize-awarded-natalie-boulton-josh-biggs/ The ME Association announces they have awarded me and Josh the Howes Goudsmit prize for our work on Severe/Very Severe ME/CFS. I'm sad that Graham has missed this, as he gave me a lot of help and encouragement. I started the Hospital Admissions video from scratch three times over as he and Rob were not happy with the first two attempts! I can't use Rob's surname as his son didn't want to be identifiable. I'd only intended to make one short Severe ME video... but as usual, they grew! I recorded a bit for MEA on my laptop, as it gave me a chance to say a bit more about what particularly concerns me now. There are two sections with me speaking in their video.
Congratulations Natalie and Josh. Very well deserved.The ME Association announces they have awarded me and Josh the Howes Goudsmit prize for our work on Severe/Very Severe ME/CFS.