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Tag Archives: me/cfs
Because I haven’t done a personal update for ages.
The reason I haven’t done a personal update for ages is that 2013 has been difficult, thus far. I was doing really well at the back end of 2012. And then my health folded (ME/CFS), and this time it’s folded … Continue reading
My life as a trapped animal.
I’ve got a grump on[1]. I don’t often grump – or if I do, it’s usually very brief and passes in a couple of hours, because I filter my own thoughts like a crab filters beach sand. I throw out … Continue reading
Why are those pretend-sick people so darned UPPITY?
Damian Thompson has recently used the Daily Telegraph to highlight the difference between blogging and journalism. “… medical science has no great difficulty explaining what’s wrong with most people diagnosed, or self-diagnosed, with ME. Their brains create a debilitating fatigue … Continue reading
Back in the room.
HELLO. I have been seriously not-ok since I did that post about cross-dressing. I have had the odd alrightish day, but basically bleurgh, culminating in the last couple of weeks, which have been straightforwardly rather hellish. I’m going to use … Continue reading
Fair warning: woman at work
I’m still suffering the tail end of this effing ‘flu, but I can’t defer my entire life because of it, so for the foreseeable future I’m just going to have to accept that every day I am very tired the … Continue reading
Posted in all about ME, life, this year
Tagged cfsid, exercise, fatigue, immune dysfunction, ME, me/cfs
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The lag.
I’m making slow progress, and tidal, which is frustrating but normal. The things you did well today may be hard to do tomorrow, and with this condition you learn very quickly that a day or an hour mean nothing, and … Continue reading
My experience of the correlation between food and fatigue/immune conditions (and whether a correlation is relevant in practical terms).
This is rather interesting, at least it is if you are someone, or know someone, who has a fatigue or immune-system-broken condition (ME, CFS, CFSID, Fibro, Behcets, Lupus etc etc). I started this year on a low-lectin diet. Lectins are … Continue reading
Out of relapse.
I am – I think – on the way back up. I’ve been rumbling downhill hard for two months, the last five weeks or so of which I’ve spent on the sofa in a jolly old relapse,* my first for … Continue reading
Colours other than blue
I’m going through the motions, but I’m going through the motions, and that counts. At least on a “fake it ’til you make it” basis, right? It means I’m getting up, putting clothes on, not letting my hair get entirely … Continue reading
Posted in all about ME, this year
Tagged cfsid, depression, goshawk, ME, me/cfs, painting, watercolour, watercolours
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Snapshot in the dark
I’m sitting in front of the telly, watching BBC4′s “Around the World By Zeppelin” – a documentary about journalist Lady Grace Drummond-Hay’s journey in a Graf Zeppelin in 1929. It takes the form of her diary – which is both … Continue reading
Posted in all about ME, life, this year
Tagged 1929, cfsid, Lady Grace Drummond-Hay, ME, me/cfs, zeppelin
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