“What’s going on with your phone this morning?” asked my wife, “it’s been buzzing away every few seconds for the last couple of hours”. I check my phone, and see loads and loads of Twitter and YouTube notifications. “Something’s happened with my YouTube video” I said. 21,000 views, that’s what had happened. Last night there had only been 645. By the time we had dressed and gone downstairs it was 23,000 views. This is on top of the views I had received via Facebook!
I turn my neurostimulator back up to quell my tremor, which it does a fair job of doing. Dystonia is okay this morning, as is dyskinesia. Balance is fair. Mood, motivation and energy are all good.
It’s to be my third day in a row in Norwich, this time to choose some cases for our holiday, for my wife to get her hair cut and for my wife to visit a friend of hers that she hasn’t seen for some time. We visit my wife’s friend, and then the hairdresser’s. While I’m waiting for my wife to be transformed, I check my email and discover three emails from different news agencies, all wanting to negotiate for rights to my video! 51,000 views and climbing. My wife emerges (transformed), we choose and purchase some cabin baggage cases, and we head back home.
We arrive home, take the dog out, and then I have the unenviable task of reading through the contracts sent to me by the online news agencies. All the time my YouTube views are climbing and the agencies are getting more and more anxious about wanting to get me signed up before the weekend. 182,000 views! I finally close a deal with one of the agencies, and now it’s a case of sitting back and watching my video go viral (which means millions of views, rather than thousands). My wife Googles me, and we find that dozens of websites have featured my video and written stories about me, including the Metro online, Daily Record, and Belfast Telegraph! We simply cannot believe the interest that has been generated. I’m exhausted from it all, and we spend the evening slumped on the sofa in front of the telly (Netflix) with a beer or two and a packet of Bombay Mix!