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Two Short ME/MCS Awareness Videos

"Wooden Pillow" & "Toxic Bedding"

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Introduction

Satori-5 webmaster Gordon D McHendry on a rare good day in 2000...

Hello

Thank you for visiting Satori-5's "ME/MCS Home Videos" webpage
         The two short ME/MCS awareness videos offered below were created using a notebook PC and a small webcam. There was no help available to me in making these so, of sheer practical necessity, they obviously had to be shot on occasions when I was actually physically able to do the necessary work. Unfortunately, what this means is that the videos do not manage to show just how dreadful the situation really is when the ME/MCS illnesses are hitting hard let alone at their worst. This is a great pity as it considerably reduces their value as tools for raising public awareness of just how life-destroying these illnesses can be. Please bear this in mind when viewing them.

         There are two versions available here for each of the two videos on offer; one for brandband users and one for non-broadband [or dial-up] users. So, no matter what your Internet bandwidth is like you will be able to view these two short films - providing your web browser is able to display Microsoft's "WMV" video format files. Satori-5 was developed using Internet Explorer at a screen resolution of 1280x1024. Consequently, you will probably not see this site, or this webpage, as intended outside of those viewing conditions.

         Additionally, if you use the Windows XP operating system then you may receive the following message - at the top of your browser window - when you entered this webpage:

"To help protect your security, Internet Explorer has restricted this file from showing active content that could access your computer. Click here for options...".

         This is happening because this webpage is offering video content and, here at least, it is nothing to be concerned about. To see the videos you must click on this message bar and select "Allow Blocked Content" otherwise you will get to see nothing at all! You may also get a similar type message from other operating systems depending on the level of security you have activated, or from other forms of securtiy software. If this is the case then please simply temporarilly deactivate or bypass the blocking software to view the videos here. There is absolutely nothing to fear from them - and you can always reactive your usual security level afterwards.

         If you are the webmaster of an ME/CFS or MCS/TILT/EI website and would like to make these videos - or stills from these videos -available directly to your own visitors, via your own site, in a non-commercial capicity then please be advised that no prior permission from me is required. Simply download the files from here and upload them to your own site. In the case of stills taken from the videos then a link back to this sites homepage is required.

         Finally, if you kindly decide to view these videos then please consider sending me an email letting me know what you thought of them. Your feedback - positive or negative, long or short - would be of great value to me. Thank you.

Namaste
Yours Sincerely
Gordon D McHendry

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Dial-Up Versions

"Wooden Pillow" & "Toxic Bedding"

         I know for sure that the two short ME/MCS videos that follow here do work and display fine from this webpage in Internet Explorer 6 running Windows XP with Service Pack 2 installed and using a screen resolution of 1280x1024. Things also work out fine as a download using Window Media Player 9.1 to display them afterwards [or the excellent "Media Player Classic" if the proper codecs are installed]. Unfortunately, I cannont vouch for any other setup at this stage. Your feedback regarding this matter would be very helpful to me so please drop me a mail letting me know how you got on accessing the videos offered below - and giving details of your own particular PC setup. Thank you.

         Please note that the videos may take a minute or two to start displaying when you click on the video-start icon of the player; this is due to buffering a certain amount of the film before display and is normal - so please be patient. If you decide to download any of these files and you find that you don't have a complete file first time - then please try downloading it again as the files are complete and this 2nd try is normally successful. This is a strange problem and one that I have never managed to get to the bottom of - yet.

         To set the following videos in their proper context the reader is advised to view the additional, illustrated background material available from the following links to other Satori-5 webpages:

The "Unbelievable" Crisis: Part-1

The "Unbelievable" Crisis: Part-2

The Present Situation
         On watching the Wooden Pillow video again during the construction work of this webpage I was very struck by how much it should have said that, due to technical and health constraints, it finally never managed to say. The freezing cold draughts. The sheer lack of any physical comfort whatsoever. The sheer extent and duration of physical discomfort. Little of this comes across visually.

         Another crucially important ingredient that simply does not come over at all is the crushing degree of mental and emotional oppression which flowed freely and constantly from my relentless, unescapable, and seemingly neverending situation of bizzarre and brutal captivity from a chemical prison that was and is invisible to almost everyone else. Ultimately, all these things would have to be experienced on a personal level to be fully, or even adequately understood in any "real" sense. On the technical side such feedback as I have had from viewers has been almost exclusively positive with the exception of my attempt to show humour in the credits. This, it was thought, weakened the impact of the seriousness nature of the subject matter. In retrospect I have to agree. If I could re-shoot the whole thing again I would change this. Alas - I cannot.

Wooden Pillow Video

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         Everything I said about the Wooden Pillow video above applies equally to the Toxic Bedding video below - with the exception of the humour bit which I managed to curtail in this one [except for the Spock reference at the end]. It would have been extreme enough to have to sleep in a garden shed, all the year round and in all weathers, with such poor health, even if I had had a proper bed with mattress and pillows with which to endure it. With no mattress or pillows however it begins to get really dire. But with no bedding to speak of AS WELL - and with each meagre makeshift item making you increasingly ill all night long to boot - you go well into the realms of the truly dreadful. Especially when it goes on for hundreds and hundreds of consecutive nights with never an end to it in sight. If you doubt how bad this actually is - even for a second - then I defy you to try it out for yourself, in the middle of a Scotish winter, for just one single measley week. Any takers Wessley?

         I wish I could have did much better with this video [and the previous one too] as the subject matter is so deserving of so very much better. Spielberg should have made them - not me. Uh, busy David? The planet and the health of everything on it would love you for it.

Toxic Bedding Video

Left click the Play icon in the player above to view the video now

Right click here to download this video to your PC for offline play

Note: Please be patient while the video is being buffered prior to play
         If you have any questions about these videos then just email them to me and I will do my best to answer them as quickly as I can. I would like to try and put together a much more substantial DVD production soon with full voice track, music etc - if I can. If you have had some experience of this kind of thing and think you could give me some info, tricks, or tips, etc, to help me along the way then I would love to hear from you too.

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Broadband Versions

"Wooden Pillow" & "Toxic Bedding"

         I know for sure that the two short ME/MCS videos that follow here do work and display fine from this webpage in Internet Explorer 6 running Windows XP with Service Pack 2 installed and using a screen resolution of 1280x1024. Things also work out fine as a download using Window Media Player 9.1 to display them afterwards [or the excellent "Media Player Classic" if the proper codecs are installed]. Unfortunately, I cannont vouch for any other setup at this stage. Your feedback regarding this matter would be very helpful to me so please drop me a mail letting me know how you got on accessing the videos offered below - and giving details of your own particular PC setup. Thank you.

         To set the following videos in their proper context the reader is advised to view the additional, illustrated background material available from the following links to other Satori-5 webpages:

The "Unbelievable" Crisis: Part-1

The "Unbelievable" Crisis: Part-2

The Present Situation
         On watching the Wooden Pillow video again during the construction work of this webpage I was very struck by how much it should have said that, due to technical and health constraints, it finally never managed to say. The freezing cold draughts. The sheer lack of any physical comfort whatsoever. The sheer extent and duration of physical discomfort. Little of this comes across visually.

         Another crucially important ingredient that simply does not come over at all is the crushing degree of mental and emotional oppression which flowed freely and constantly from my relentless, unescapable, and seemingly neverending situation of bizzarre and brutal captivity from a chemical prison that was and is invisible to almost everyone else. Ultimately, all these things would have to be experienced on a personal level to be fully, or even adequately understood in any "real" sense. On the technical side such feedback as I have had from viewers has been almost exclusively positive with the exception of my attempt to show humour in the credits. This, it was thought, weakened the impact of the seriousness nature of the subject matter. In retrospect I have to agree. If I could re-shoot the whole thing again I would change this. Alas - I cannot.

Wooden Pillow Video

Left click the Play icon (once only) in the player above to view the video now

Right click here to download this video to your PC for offline play

Note: Please be patient while the video is being buffered prior to playing
This may take several minutes with the much larger broadband versions
         Everything I said about the Wooden Pillow video above applies equally to the Toxic Bedding video below - with the exception of the humour bit which I managed to curtail in this one [except for the Spock reference at the end]. It would have been extreme enough to have to sleep in a garden shed, all the year round and in all weathers, with such poor health, even if I had had a proper bed with mattress and pillows with which to endure it. With no mattress or pillows however it begins to get really dire. But with no bedding to speak of AS WELL - and with each meagre makeshift item making you increasingly ill all night long to boot - you go well into the realms of the truly dreadful. Especially when it goes on for hundreds and hundreds of consecutive nights with never an end to it in sight. If you doubt how bad this actually is - even for a second - then I defy you to try it out for yourself, in the middle of a Scotish winter, for just one single measley week. Any takers Wessley?

         I wish I could have did much better with this video [and the previous one too] as the subject matter is so deserving of so very much better. Spielberg should have made them - not me. Uh, busy David? The planet and the health of everything on it would love you for it.

Toxic Bedding Video

Left click the Play icon (once only) in the player above to view the video now

Right click here to download this video to your PC for offline play

Note: Please be patient while the video is being buffered prior to playing
This may take several minutes with the much larger broadband versions
         If you have any questions about these videos then just email them to me and I will do my best to answer them as quickly as I can. I would like to try and put together a much more substantial DVD production soon with full voice track, music etc - if I can. If you have had some experience of this kind of thing and think you could give me some info, tricks, or tips, etc, to help me along the way then I would love to hear from you too.

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