hmmm... not sure I would want him representing narcolepsy. As it
being great and his having a public career. That's like using Mr.
Bean in a Mad MAd.... World.. as the basis of narcolepsy. I think
we'd be better served by Seinfeld if that's the case o.0

-Think I'll stick it out for another celeb to come forward.


--- In Narcolepsy-Chat@yahoogroups.com, "Erin" <jade4ugrl@c...>
wrote:
> What It Feels Like to Have Narcolepsy
>
> by Jimmy Kimmel, 35, host of Jimmy Kimmel Live | Aug 01 '03 Esquire
>
> ----------------------------
>
> Truth be told, I'd rather have narcolepsy than not have it. When I
get
> on a flight to Vegas, I'll fall asleep before the plane takes off
and
> wake up after it's landed. I'm always very close to sleep. [Yawns.]
>
> I had no idea I had it until recently. All I knew about narcolepsy
was
> a character on Hill Street Blues, Vic Hitler the Narcoleptic Comic,
> who would fall asleep in the middle of his act. But I did know that
> every afternoon between about three and six, I would get very tired
> for no reason. I would doze off in meetings, watching TV, even
> driving. You know how when you're regular tired, your whole body is
> tired? With narcolepsy, just the inside of your head is tired. It's
> like somebody's gently sitting on your brain. You have almost no
> focus. All you're thinking about is not falling asleep.
>
> When I was emceeing Win Ben Stein's Money, I actually fell asleep
> during the show a few times. I would sit on the safe over to the
side
> and just sort of doze off. But that was probably a combination of
the
> narcolepsy and Ben's voice. Another time I was on the freeway in
> bumper-to-bumper traffic. My head was diving, then jerking back up.
> All of a sudden, this loud voice over a megaphone says, "Are you
awake
> enough to drive that vehicle?" And I practically jumped out of my
> skin. It was the police, one lane over.
>
> Anyway, I just always figured I wasn't getting enough sleep, so I
> would drink gallons of iced tea to get me through the afternoon.
> Finally I went to a doctor. When I told him how much iced tea I
drank,
> he said, "What?!" He decided I was self-medicating, and he
prescribed
> these pills called Provigil.
>
> I have a pretty mild case with no other symptoms. Some narcoleptics
> experience cataplexy, which is a limpness in the arms and legs. I
> don't have that. I'd like to, though. It sounds great. I've never
used
> my narcolepsy in my work, though I do have a dream to someday use
up
> an entire hour of television time by sleeping. Have I been
approached
> to be the public face of narcolepsy? No, nobody wants me associated
> with their groups. I hope that changes, though. I would like to be
to
> narcolepsy what Camille Grammer is to irritable-bowel syndrome.
>
>
> - As told to Brendan Vaughan
> Copyright © 1997-2005 by the Hearst Corporation.