Life in the Void

To all those living in silence and darkness. Today we take a moment in silence and darkness to honor your courage, your bravery, your resilience, your strength, and we acknowledge your profound suffering, agony and loss…

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That is ME/CFS. We live with world champion symptoms with no idea what is causing them or what will happen with those symptoms or what our future holds. We hold onto hope but are often crushed by this harsh, unrelenting illness…

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I see people protesting the rights of many marginalized groups and important issues. I see people up in arms over injustices faced by people all around the world…BUT WE ARE DYING. Not to mention suffering endlessly from symptoms that are often only comparable to what any other human being experiences right before death. For neverending decades. And I don’t see anyone even blinking an eye. I don’t see anyone even seeing us. We do not even exist for most of the public in this world…

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The "Big Beautiful Bill" that Trump signed into law on the 4th of July will take away insurance from an estimated 17 million people, mostly from people on Medicaid. I want to tell you how losing Medicaid would impact me directly.…If I lost Medicaid, my parents would have to sell our house to pay for medical expenses that keep me alive…What are we doing America?…When has taking from the poor and giving to the rich been something anyone ever actually champions?

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This 4th of July, if I could fly an American flag, it would be flown upside down…Today should be a disgrace to all Americans…Today President Trump signs into law a bill that will take away healthcare from 17 million Americans…most of them on Medicaid...

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I’ve done most of my "growing up" here in bed. And lately I’ve realized that "growing up" hasn’t been about figuring out the whole universe, but a process of acceptance - accepting that I don’t have it figured out and most importantly accepting myself and loving myself without "knowing it all"…And this is part of one of the saddest things about living with ME/CFS. Teaching us all so much about the essence of life and how to live it in a good way but then keeping us from putting those lessons to use out there in the world…

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I feel like I am in a position where I have to be against the whole world because the whole world is against me…But I don't enjoy that, I didn't choose that. I was put in this position. I love this world. I want to be a part of this world…Not excised like a broken part, tossed aside and marginalized and painted in all kinds of colors that do not define me and which I never chose…

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I'm sick of ME/CFS being compared to a never-ending flu. This ain’t no f*ing flu. I feel like every system in my body is broken and in pieces. I am mentally and physically 1% as alive as I used to be…But even if you have a very severe flu and are bed bound, the never-ending part is a huge deal…

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Starting a new day with ME/CFS, with full awareness of the suffering that lies ahead and the helplessness of a reality with no effective treatments, no suport from the world around you, and no concrete knowledge of a cure; This is one of the most profound acts of courage...

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This is ME/CFS. Unrelenting. Unforgiving. Never ending. You fight and fight for crumbs of life that most muggles throw away. Crumbs that are not even good enough for the dogs. And then ME/CFS launches a new assault and you are back in the trench you were in years ago. No mercy. No solace. A forever war that keeps taking and taking and taking…

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