When I was a teenager I always thought that by the age of thirty two I would be a successful lawyer, be married with a couple of children and live ...
It was an odd experience and one I was sure wouldn’t be repeated.
I had just driven home from college, a twenty-minute drive down California Highway 17, car windows rolled down ...
"Other people" have weird, disabling, long term illnesses, don't they?
At the start of one early Thursday morning in the November when I was 22, I boarded the train to an ...
It’s a new year, as I write this, Top Ten lists are everywhere, inventories are being taken and ledgers are being balanced. So I thought I would write my M.E. ...
It’s the late 1950s. On a hot summer’s day a small child of about two plays in an English suburban garden with Mummy and Daddy. The child is very active, ...
So here we go, this is me having my chance to tell my story. It’s something I have wanted to do for such a long time, but now it’s here ...
Hello. I am a 37 year old man who became ill around 15 months ago with what was eventually diagnosed as ME/CFS.
The first clue I had that things were awry ...
March 21, 2002
I’m so sick of feeling exhausted and achy, so sick of lying on the couch, so sick of getting nothing done. I want my life back!
When I wrote ...
Fifteen years ago I was a relatively happy nursing student, working night and day to graduate. I had friends, a life, and a purpose.
I was, arguably, a borderline workaholic ...
I remember the precise moment it struck: June 9, 2007, shortly after 10:00 a.m.
It would be identified a couple of years later as Chronic Fatigue Syndrome (or CFS for short)
Backing ...
My second interview that I was lucky to get for our May 12th International ME Day was with Rik Carlson, Founder of the Vermont CFIDS Association.
Perhaps best known for his ...
I began having periodic symptoms of Chronic Fatigue Syndrome as far back as 1978 and in 1979 was told by one doctor that I had mono like illness...
Author and friend, Toni Bernhard, agreed to do an interview with me for ME International Awareness Day, concerning her life and her recent book, How to be sick. I think ...
My story about Myalgic Encephalomyelitis (M.E.) or Chronic Fatigue Syndrome (CFS) "Gail Upnorth"in 2002, back when I was in my early thirties. Following University I worked for eight years as a wilderness educator.
In the summer of 2001, I had the next couple of decades of my life mapped out. I’d be teaching law, traveling to visit my children and their families, and attending ...
I remember the exact moment I first became ill. It was December 31st, 1996 around 3 o'clock in the afternoon....
The one goal of the organization is to share 1Story@aTime, every single month with a culmination on May 12th which is the International ME Day.
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