My symptoms – update 10/5/2011
If it hadn’t happened to me i wouldn’t believe how easily and quickly i am recovering from my ‘dip’ into ME. I remembered the list i wrote almost 3 months ago and have copied it (below) and added notes on…
Just one good reason for ME/CFS Awareness Week – 8th to 14th May
This video ( http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nabLrB7Ls9s) is a great explanation of what people with ME/CFS and other ‘invisible’ illnesses really need and explains what might possibly lead ‘one’ to believe that ‘one’ is not actually ill. I’m still feeling a bit bruised…
Bank Holiday Weekend
I’m sitting in bed writing this. Its 11am and I’ve managed to keep up with all the days/nights out all weekend by mainly doing just this. Jon and Bruce arrived at around 6.30pm on Thursday and by resting all day,…
Not so well :-(
I’m officially an IDIOT!!! I was feeling so good today that i thought id plant a few of the flowers i bought 3 days ago. I pottered about a bit in the garden and thought I’d just do a couple…
Well, well, well!
I’m feeling really well lately. I wake up in the morning and actually want to get out of bed and do something. I’m still taking it easy coz i don’t want to get back into the non stop, cant stop,…
ME and my muscles
I dont know yet if this is specific to me but i recorded in previous diary entries that peeling a potato with a peeler made me feel ill, having a bath and drying my hair made me feel ill, carrying…
Arrgghhh …. trains!!!!
My train journey home was supposed to be easy. It certainly looked it on paper (or rather on the Internet). Two trains; One at 10.53 from Cheltenham to Bristol Temple Meads which dropped me off at platform 11 then a…
Nerves and wrecks
Today I am looking out of my friend Jays window onto an orchard. All the trees are in full blossom and lambs are playing around them and their grazing mums. Bliss! Ive been waiting for the aches and illness to…
ME and phones
Im discovering something new every day and the more i find out the better i seem to feel. On Tuesday i went to the ME support group. (The group meet at The Spyglass in Weymouth on the first Tuesday of…
What has ME ever done for me?
I was diagnosed in 1993, thought id completely recovered, spent the next 17 years undiagnosed and occassionally struggling, then relapsed/collapsed in October 2009. I look after my ME every day. So what has ME ever done for me? Nothing ………