Inside Edition did not show my segment last night

Much to my dismay, I received a call from a producer of the show telling me that they couldn't fit the story on Friday night. My problem was that I told EVERYONE and I now had to tell EVERYONE that it was not going to be on - I didn't want anyone sitting in front of the tv waiting for me. My best friend, Jen, felt so sorry for me that she took me to a movie - we saw Seven Gifts with Will Smith - he was wonderful in the movie. He seems like a regular guy in real life as well - a few weeks ago, he walked into my brother's firehouse in Harlem just to say hi and to look around. He stayed about an hour and was a great guy. The firemen gave him some t-shirts which are really cool. It is snowing huge flakes tonight and it should continue until mid Sunday- I'm in!

Dr. Ben Carson - Gifted Hands

My neurosurgeon, Ben Carson, wrote a book about his life. He wrote about me! The website about the book can be found if you search - Gifted Hands Beth Usher

Also, my good friend Lary Bloom wrote a book about Connecticut characters and low and behold - I am a character - his book can be found on - larybloom.net/excerpts/Conn-ntbk.html

Yikes!!! I'm on Inside Edition tonight!!!

Well, tonight I will be on Inside Edition along with my parents and older brother, Brian. It was twenty years ago that I appeared on the very first show. You know how everyone wants their few minutes of fame? I felt so sorry for my brother - he really didn't want to be on TV but he did it for me. I now know that he truly does love me! My parents weren't sure if they wanted me to be on TV after twenty years but I was soooo excited. After all, if I can use my life's struggles to make even one person feel better about their struggles - then I am happy. The first show was nearly twenty minutes long but this one will only be about a minute. April Woodard was the interviewer, Paulie was the camera person, and Tony was the audio person. They were at my house for hours and they could not have been nicer! When I was seven years old I had a hemispherectomy - the only option (at that time) for a horrible disease called Rasmussen's Encephalitis. The disease reared it's ugly head when I was into my third week of kindergarten at the same school where I am now an assistant kindergarten teacher. I fell off of a seesaw. At that time everyone thought that the fall caused the seizure but we now think that the seizure may have caused the fall. In the school nurse's office, I had a grand mal seizure - I was aware and even reached my left arm out for my mom when she arrived. My mom took me to my doctor's office who immediately called an ambulance. Dr. Nelson Walker has been a long time family friend who is always there for me. After a day of tests which included a cat scan, blood work, and observations, my parents were told that I was born with cerebral palsy because of atrophy in the left side of my brain. They sent me home with a low dose of phenobarbital to control seizures but said that I may not have another seizure. (Well off to school - more later)