He made some nice remarks on screen about helping others along the way and wouldn’t that be nice if that could be done here in this stimulus package and not only seen in a negative way as a lot of the Reps see it.  That’s all we want to do is help others get a helping hand not a hand out, but that does not get through to the Reps unfortunately, they just see it as a negative thing. 

I couldn’t have said it better myself Ms.Dee.  It was a wonderful moment, one that should have taken place many years ago.

LOL, when I was a little girl, I had a huge crush on Jerry Lewis and Dean Martin.

What a pleasant relief to see Gerry Lewis appear to be sincere and humble. He has done some wonderful things for MS and other related illnesses. I admire him greatly for that. Does anyone recall the evening he was MC for the Oscars when he was told “off-camera” that there was still another twenty minutes to go before they could sign-off the program?  He was a scream. He did everything but stand on his head to fill in those twenty long minutes. I still can’t look at anyone playing a trumpet without remembering how Gerry blasted and squawked the most unearthly sounds out of the instrument he had just unceremoniously grabbed out the hands of an astonished, innocent member of the band. A genuine Gerry Lewis impromptu performance. What a guy.

In January of 1952, a little Detroit girl, suffering witih a 106 degree fever, in a coma from spinal menigitis only stirred on Tuesday evenings, (this horrific illness came fifteen months after she was struck down by Polio). The floor nurses at Henry Ford Hospital notice this pattern and mentioned it to her parents, kept at a distance, outside the isolation room window. "It’s Jerry & Dean’s radio time … " they were told, so the staff contacted the station, hoping something would save this child.

That great humanitarian, Jerry Lewis, called out to her on his radio broadcast one evening. By that time, she was out of the coma, but was in so surprised upon hearing his good wishes, she did not hear what he said, only "There is a little girl in Henry Ford Hospital in Detoit - - - ", and her name being called by "Jerry." The staff, llistening by then, too, rushed in and told her what had happened. To this day, she remembers that moment as one of the greatest in her life; quite akin to her first solo flight out of Just-In-Time, in north Texas years later, in 1980 (duly losing her shirt)!

I still have the photos of being with him (and Dean, who was not sober!) at the Fox Theater in Detroit; he phoned me weeks after I was out of the hospital to tell me he would be in Detroit and wanted to "get together" with me ~ I went right back into a coma! Also from my visits to him in California years later, when he was filming Geisha Boy, and the wondrous, dizzing time in the Parmount cafeteria when he introduced me to people I only thought existed, including our greatest director!  

What is utterly amazing now, proving that life is circuitious, is that with all of Jerry’s work for MD, that is precisely where I am right now - reaping the rewards of research on MD, ALS, et al - as I was left with after Polio - neuromusclar disorders take hundreds of forms, like breast cancer (which I also survived).

The nation’s leading expert for "MD KIDS" saved my life 13 months ago, doing just what Jerry did ~ reached out assertively to help me, until I could get to him across the country trying to breathe (but he told me how to "do it"). I am an online advocate for those with neuromuscular breathing conditons, of which most are "MD" related. Project Blue Whale has been launched.

I thank you, continually, Jerry! The most you receive is the least you deserve! (You did not give up on me, and I won’t give up on others.)

(now you all ‘know’)