I dont usually wtch MTV, but last night there was a show called True Life on. It came on at 9:00 central time. ANYWAY long story short this episonde was about Tourettes. My daughter watches this station on occasion and told me about it, so i sat down with her and started watching it. It was a story about 3 different people who had tourettes. It was great. One teenage girl who lived with her grandmother ended up have these electrodes put into her brain. At the end of the show it gave an explaination of how things are going for them and it said so far she hadn't noticed any difference in her tourettes but she was still hopeful that these electrodes would help relieve some of her tics.
One 20 year old was deciding whether he should go back on medication. As a child he was put on meds and gained up to 300 lbs by the time he was 16. He went off his meds and lost ALOT of weight. He basically decided medication wan't for him. Even though his tics were interferring with his life he didn't want the side effects of the meds.
The last guy had a mild case of tourettes. He was a stunt cyclist. He had a 5 year old girl, and was engaged to be married. Long story short he was in a competition and had a tic in the middle of a jump and ended up falling off his bike midair, crashing to he ground and breaking his ankle.
Scott enjoyed watching this, he commented that his tourettes wans't as severe as the girls, and was very thankful for that. I dont know if any of you had the chance to watch it, but i thought it was very well done. ESPECIALLY considering it was on MTV!!!!!
Take care and i hope everybody has a good day today.
vicky