My Mom is a Thalidomide Survivor

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Intro - 00:00
What is Thalidomide? - 00:50
My Mom's childhood - 03:40
My Mom bit her brother - 04:58
Realizing her disability - 06:45
My Mom's amazing artistic talent - 08:07
My Mom's high school experience - 09:35
High school peers' perception of my Mom - 11:45
Life after high school: 13:43
My Mom had twins: 14:01
My Mom's concerns of Motherhood - 14:55
My Mom is a different "variant" of human - 16:44
Adopting her disabled 3rd child: 17:36
My Sister, Priya on following my Mom's example: 18:54
My Mom meeting her husband, Keith - 21:07
My Mom's 4th child, Sarah - 22:19
Sarah's unique view of womanhood - 22:47
Dealing with her husband's declining health - 24:08
In remembrance of Keith Grover - 24:52
My Mom's recent success as a Marketing Specialist - 27:08
"She never takes a day off" - 28:09
Priya on my Mom breaking stereotypes - 28:49
My Mom's blessings throughout her life - 29:36
Difficulties across all US Thalidomide Survivors - 31:25
"The Forgotten Survivors" and "Wonder Drug" release - 33:40
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@AndyP Год назад

(This video was re-uploaded after making a few adjustments) >>> Subscribe to my Mom to be notified of her film’s release: youtube.com/@Grovercommunications Pre-order “Wonder Drug” by Jennifer Vanderbes: www.jennifervanderbes.com/wonder-drug

@ihrie82 Год назад

Found this on Reddit on the documentary sub. Your Mom (and the other victims) will not be forgotten!

@Pelenaiful Год назад

I'm not from USA, I had no idea what Thalidomide was, I'm 99% certain I'll never meet you or your family in person but I still watched till the end and got really invested in your/your mom's story. This was great, keep up the good work.

@padego58 Год назад

A remarkable and beautiful woman, thank you for this.

@zenomalley 9 месяцев назад

I am also disabled and I think you're an amazing woman. Thank you for sharing this story. I've always been interested in the thalidomide story. Wanted to hear from real survivors. You deserve to have your voices heard.

@memif Год назад

Wow. randomly got this recommended and this is really hearttouching. i’ve always heard of thalidomide poisoning but to see that it wasn’t a hinder is amazing. i myself am currently studying graphic design and this is so inspirational! tell your mom hi from us!💜💜

@the_stagnant Год назад

Incredibly moving. This is what a great family looks like.

@invisibleuser_d9fe3H1obHj7 Год назад

I did a High School report on Thalidomide children. Never thought someone could really survive it. Cool beans.

@azamatturlykhanov6245 Год назад

Man, you're all so lucky to have such a strong and beautiful mom, bless your family

@lottiex2243a Год назад

This was a beautiful video honouring a beautiful woman, thank you for sharing

@Jaxxons_NeNe Месяц назад

I’m also a Survivor of Thalidomide and thought I’m much younger I have had a horrible time managing to get to go to regular school and not being able to work due to my disability and the discrimination of just my physical appearance. I have fought through life to accomplish as much as I could and if nothing else to prove others wrong. I just wanted to thank you for highlighting your mom and telling everyone just what a disabled person can do.

@gutenachtgeschichten4717 Год назад

what a lovely and inspiring woman

@StarxLolita Год назад

This is beautiful. I had to share it around, especially with my own mom. Your mom is a thalidomide survivor, but that isn't ALL she is. She sounds wonderful.

@BeelzeKid Год назад

your mom is a star shineing so bright that she lights up the right path for several ppl ... she is so strong and able that im takeing nots for my own life ... your documentation about your mom enabled me to have hope in humans once more .... im sad ... i need to look on things more like her ...

@user-go1ht8zi8i 6 месяцев назад

Amazing lady one is proud to have for a mother. God bless her.

@DJSkandalous 6 месяцев назад

Great story and very insightful. Well done 👏

@mudlark4099 Год назад

Your mom is a warrior. 🦁

@rafaelamello1760 Год назад

i clicked on this thinking it was an oompaville video haha but i ended up feeling very touched by it! great video

@ojasch4366 Год назад

❤

@Neine Год назад

I love this video!!!!!!! WDYM it only has 889 views what the fuck it' so good, so inspiring!! Your mom is AWESOME

@itsfrytime Год назад

This was so sweet and beautiful, made me smile several times as I watched it. Thank you!

@MiniWeeMoose Год назад

So thankful that the RU-vid algorithm brought me here, this is absolutely beautiful and one of the most wonderful gifts you could give to the amazing person who is your mother. She has to be one of the most incredible people I've ever gotten to learn about, and one of the best mothers. As someone who is disabled and doesn't have a good mother (who I haven't spoken with in over a decade,) mother's day is something that's lost meaning to me. It's really healing for me to learn about good parents, especially mothers, who have given their children a loving, supportive upbringing. And your mother did so much more than that; just hearing her adult children speak truly shows what an amazing parent she is and what wonderful gifts she's given to her children. Thank you for sharing this amazing woman with us and please give her a hug for me ❤

@AndyP Год назад

❤️❤️

@Grovercommunications Год назад

I agree! ❤

@foxycinquantuno3361 Год назад

This was really interesting! Your mom seems awesome (and she has great kids.) Also, people definitely stare at your sister because she's beautiful, lol.

@elladony2999 Год назад

im from rochester too:))) this was recommended and i love it, your mom is a strong woman!!

@ameanasaur Год назад

I needed to see this today. Thank you so much, your family is amazing :) I cracked up when your grandmother was introduced lol

@essy6020 Год назад

commenting for exposure ❤ god bless you guys

@sayspeedrave Год назад

I don't know why RU-vid graced me with this video but I'm glad it did. Your mom is so strong and loving.. it shows in your guys' demeanor. I'm going to buy that book, even though I had no idea what Thalidomide was until today.

@mariopaintcomposer5975 Год назад

i cant wait to watch her documentary!!

@abbdabb6219 Год назад

What a beautiful Mother and story.......thank you for sharing her💜

@rosemarywife Год назад

a beautiful and well edited video. thank you for sharing her story this mother’s day ❤️ excited to see the documentary!

@ac0152 Год назад

The fact that this came out right after mother's day warms my heart. I know she must feel extremely loved this week you are an amazing son! This is an amazing story that needs to be told and definitely needs more exposure you and your mother are doing special work.

@maroulio2067 10 месяцев назад

A beautiful, amazing, talented, intelligent, loving woman! I am happy to see this reaching so many viewers. This touched my heart.

@aziz9921 Месяц назад

What an amazing woman!

@wesleymclaurin2990 Год назад

Leaving a comment to increase your viewer engagement, great vid

@tiramisu7544 Год назад

Thalidomide poisoning and it's effects are so sad. Hope your mom is doing fine though

@Jose-Gonzalez-cfl Месяц назад

What an inspiring woman. Wish her a mother's day from a whole bunch of us here whose mom's aren't physically present anymore. And happy mother's day for all of you mothers and motherly figures. Moms rock!

@anntunaley9974 Месяц назад

I was born in 1962 as well. Thank God my mother didn’t use it, but I have FAS bc my mother drank so much. I’m also physically disabled from a rare genetic disease. But I wasn’t diagnosed with either until almost age 60. I live in Oswego, NY, very close to Rochester. I was just there yesterday. Your mom is a rockstar!

@kael9664 Год назад

beautiful, I'm so happy I watched this to the end.

@emgregory528 11 месяцев назад

Beautiful lady! Beautiful family!

@amisawsan Год назад

im so happy this was in my recommendations

@WandaPoitra-nj3og 2 месяца назад

Thank you for sharing this story. Your mom is awesome.

@Tleetify Год назад

Glad YT recced me this and I hope it gets more recognition and love from others too. Amazing video man, and very insightful. I'm sure your mum is very proud!

@Smooveandpretty Год назад

This was a great video I’m surprised your channel is still small.

@peachshred4797 Год назад

Only a few minutes in but this is genuinely so well done. Thank you for sharing.

@neverescence Год назад

Such a well-done video and I'm so glad to have been given the opportunity to meet your family. It's really a gift to everyone to have this document and it'll be a beautiful keepsake through the years

@sandybeaches88 17 часов назад

I really enjoyed watching this & learning about these beautiful humans ❤

@calouma5642 Год назад

Really loved this documentary about your mom and thalidomide in general! When I started watching I didn’t expect to watch it til the end but it was very engaging and I’m amazed by both your skills and your wonderful mom. Your whole family actually seems really great and wholesome. I hope many more people will watch your video, I was actually really surprised by the low viewership compared to the care and effort that definitely went into making it. Love from Germany

@spac3c4d3t Год назад

this deserves more views smh, your mom is a wonderful person all around 🥺 and your family seems lovely, what a heartwarming story

@user-zb7uh2ob1r День назад

Good video. Now I feel like such a slacker. Amazing to see people for whom just moving around is a struggle but they do so much.

@BambiJuice Год назад

Thanks for sharing this story, very well produced and informative. I had no idea about Thalidomide.

@anntunaley9974 Месяц назад

Your mom is so pretty. I’m glad she’s had a good life and a good childhood. And wow, what an amazing artist.

@mangoboba1322 Год назад

I didn’t know what thalidomide was until now. Thank you for making this video. You’re mother is such an amazing person! I look forward to watching the documentary!❤

@eldoodooface6353 Год назад

I'm and Andy P. too! Thank you for sharing your mother's story, I have recently been finding out a lot about Thalidomide because I guess that's what RU-vid has chosen to give me in the past few months but I am so glad I saw this. I am now on my way to go watch your mother's documentary. Thank you so much for sharing this video.

@Lulu-dq2gr Год назад

Thank you for sharing her story! This was so informative and well edited

@flawbertrobert Год назад

Wow, what a wonderful video about your mother. What a great woman. I definitely learned a bunch today :)

@Peaceisful 10 дней назад

Thank you!!

@darknsunny2638 Год назад

Amazing

@Jaggerbush 5 месяцев назад

Like many, im not sure how i got here but I'm glad i did. Wonderful story. Wonderful family. Your mother is amazing.

@shi_nee_unofficial Год назад

This video is truly inspiring, along with your mother,who seems like such an amazing person.

@mizzyminaaa7705 Год назад

your mom is an amazing person who is so inspiring!!! thank you for sharing this with us. Im so surprised I never knew much about this, learning about it is crazy and im excited to see her film.

@m.c.1387 Год назад

This is absolutely beautiful!! My heart is full!!

@Algrenion Год назад

i am so, so grateful to have been recommended this video. What a beautiful tribute to an incredible mum. i have chronic illnesses and honestly, i often let my pain and my status as "disabled" define me and what i can do. But your mother is so right; it's about how you look at it. Hearing you guys talk and laugh about her life as a whole, not just focusing on her limitations, was really moving. hoping that the next time i wake up and think "what's the point" when i'm faced with going to a lecture or getting stuck into an art project, i'll think of you guys :) ps. more people should make tributes like these for their living relatives. You can sense so much of the love and inspiration you have for hher from this video ❤❤

@AndyP Год назад

❤️❤️

@dbfbobt Год назад

Surprised to discover thalidomide is still used for some conditions. Not for pregnant people.

@veryloweffortmemes Год назад

This is amazing man, badass but going after Disney is low as sin so I respectfully ask yourself to take a long walk off a short pier fresh boy

@AndyP Год назад

Oopsie

@minkagoldstein9228 19 дней назад

What a world tragedy! I knew Dr. Helen Taussig who was the first MD to say that it was dangerous and caused birth defects.

@keesvandelaarschot3149 3 месяца назад

I know it as "Softenon" I read a lot about Thalidomide which a know as Softenon, but why do I read nothing about the DES-hormoon. Given from 1947 till 1976. I am a DES daughter I was born in 1950 and ..... as a lot af DES-daughters and sons can not have children because of this medicine given to my mother. I look like a woman, I feel as a woman but ... as I always say ... my factory is empty and can have no children. I am 73 years old now, never ever had my "period" then only a little bit of oestrogene I have Osteoporose and artrose. But .... I am a happy woman and married with a lovely man for 48 year and he said: I am married with you because I love you and not to have children. Sometimes when I look how it is going in de world now, ... I am happy we have no children.

@samjanssens1509 Год назад

if these kinds of videos would be a mandatory watch in youth development, instead of watching retarded ticktock dances 24/7 this world might look different

@BeelzeKid Год назад

you get an imidiat like for spotlighting the greatest person in your life , your mom , she set the stage for your life :D but let me followup with an incredebly evil question ... how is the c19vax diffrent from what happend with tolidomite ? our tolidomite suvivor told us not to ... cuzz we where able to se on her arms what unstuddied medicine does

@GynBlaise Год назад

There's so much misinformation out there about the COVID-19 vaccines that I have to respond. First, the COVID-19 vaccines have been studied. They use mRNA technology that's been around for decades to fight other viral diseases. Also, unlike thalidomide, the COVID-19 vaccines (Pfizer and Moderna) received both an emergency use authorization as well as full approval from the FDA. Thalidomide was never approved by the FDA.