Hi Stevie,
Just want to thank you. What for? Hope.
In March 2015, I was working at my computer with the television in the background; this guy came onto a programme and sang his heart out. Not often does it happen, but you just need to stop what you are doing, get up and go across to the television to see exactly what is going on.
I bet quite a few people had to do the same – wander across to their television sets to see this incredible performance. Your first audition with Kodaline’s All I Want Is Nothing More.
So here’s the thing, and I don’t even think you know you do it. Stevie you have an uncanny ability to shine with hope.
For this soul the start of 2015 was a bit scary. Like you I used to wear a uniform. Though it was the wrong emergency service. Regardless of that, years of bodily abuse in the job ended up with spinal surgery. End of physical ability. End of career. New job suitable for a person with physical disability – learnt how to work computers and websites. Then a few weeks into 2015 a routine visit to the optician revealed “sight loss”. Now there are a lot of really brave patients at the ophthalmology department at Ninewells Hospital. I am not one of them. Blindness can be terrifying. How do people cope with going blind? First visit: the doc reckoned 30% sight loss in the left eye on basic examination – and it was progressive.
With physical work problematic and now the new job at computers looking in jeopardy because of encroaching blindness, the bucket of hope had an awful big leak in it.
Then on the television appeared firefighter Stevie McCrorie, eyes filled with hope, and that voice.
Watching the first song – there can be no doubt about a truly exceptional ability and natural talent. Evidenced by the final, winning result. But the back story is the thing that did it. Irrepressible enthusiasm. Stevie, you called yourself a nobody. Please don’t ever do that again. By putting your heart and soul into what you do, people get it. Stevie you’ve put in the work, you know your stuff, and good grief you can sure belt out a song. Plus the magic part. Your own music and lyric writing is every bit as good as the top chart performers who you have covered for months. Mark this, your songs will endure. They will become timeless just like the iconic covers you have sung throughout that television series.
Strange how music and even specific songs can put down anchors in the timeline of your life.
On 5th November 2015, after a lot of tests and meds., with the incredibly dedicated staff at Ninewells Hospital I went in for the verdict. Would my eyesight outlast my remaining lifespan?
As for 2015 and the happenings in one small corner of the country? Well the fortunes of a certain singer from Alloa appearing on a television show lifted the spirits. Week after week. Much needed too. Fortunately at the end of 2015 my own prognosis came. Albeit with caveats and cautions; but it could not have been better. The consultant advised only 6% of peripheral vision loss in left eye. Right eye 100% okay. Central vision both eyes 100%. Vision loss slowed right down and under control with eye meds. Blindness had been slowed right down. Mixed feelings. Personally thanking my lucky stars, but what about all the other folk who are fighting to keep their eyesight. Slightly off message, but Professor Pete Coffey and Professor Lyndon Da Cruz seem heart liftingly close to curing a main cause of blindness (click this link).
Here’s the strange thing about today – apart from the months spent clinging to hope in whatever way it appeared or was gifted. During the journey home from hospital my son (a firefighter) who was on driving duty switched the car radio on.
Wouldn’t you know it – with eerily perfect timing came Stevie McCrorie singing All I Want Is Nothing More.
Maybe it is a whole load of emotions. All those brave folk with sight loss conditions in the waiting room at Ninewells Hospital. The rollercoaster of a year; starting from the point of not knowing whether permanent blindness and darkness for eternity was soon to arrive.
With the wonderful song playing on the car radio, all I could say to my son was that the tears which quietly flowed were because of the drops they had put in my eyes at the hospital. I don’t think he believed me.
In truth Stevie McCrorie, you were there at the start of the year, and you were there at the end. Singing your heart out. Giving people hope. So please, keep on doing what you do Buddy.
Thank you.
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P.S. Stevie, just heard today 2nd April 2016 that you are going to return to the job as a firefighter. Tough decision, but ABSOLUTELY the right call. You have been trained to save lives. Do it man. You also sing your heart out. Seriously Stevie, 6,6338,184 – over six and a half million views – of this one video (here). No question you have that ability too. So why not do both? William Windsor can do two jobs…
Prince William Manages Two Jobs – So Can Stevie McCrorie 🙂
So can you. Any faded journalist that tries making a few quid off of a story twisting decency, honour and talent into something else is despicable.
Just go on doing what you do so well. Fighting fires, singing, being a dad and husband.
Good on you Stevie McCrorie.
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