Today I am launching a JustGiving campaign for our friend who had bowel cancer and has Crohn’s Disease. Not only do I want to make this the subject of my weekly vlog, but I want to create a video to go on the JustGiving page as well. Martha Orbach (the artist that we got to know when I was having my DBS operation) has said that she will provide an illustration of hers to go on the page – I promised (some time ago) to record a video of myself walking (she wants to study a Parkinson’s walk so that she can mimic it in an animation she is doing about Parkinson’s Disease and deep brain stimulation) so I really want to get that done today, too!
I already have a script for the JustGiving video (it’s the story that I have written to go on the campaign page), so I quickly film myself reading the script, and then take my camera and tripod out into the street so that I can film myself walking.
I write the script for my vlog whilst downloading the JustGiving and walking footage onto my MacBook, and then film my vlog (with quite a large number of retakes – my voice is still sounding pretty rubbish – indistinct and slurred).
Buy the time my wife gets home from work, I have edited the JustGiving video and my vlog, uploaded them both to my YouTube channel and published them – the walking video (which is very straightforward) is a job for tomorrow.
After dinner, I post links to my vlog on Facebook, Twitter, Instagram and half a dozen online Parkinson’s forums that I’m subscribed to, and sit and wait for the donations to come rolling in…