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One of my last blogs prior to the CFS/ME/Fibro Twitter list was about dealing with a “relapse”. I put that in inverted commas because 1. It wasn’t and 2. Relapse always seems a strange way to describe an illness that hasn’t actually gone away in the first place. Well, after that long intro, it turns…

For the first time since I became a mother in 2003, today is both Mother’s Day AND International ME/CFS Awareness Day. Juggling CFS and motherhood is something I’ve got used to over the years, but it’s far from an easy juggle. Most of the time I do pretty well, but today is not one of…

As part of ME/CFS Awareness Day May 12, 2013 I thought I’d acknowledge all those people worldwide living with CFS/ME/CFIDS/Fibro who are on Twitter. I eventually want to do a blogroll too, but I’ve not seen a Twitter or Facebook Page CFS/ME list (it may be that I haven’t looked very well!), so I thought…

“No. No, no, no, no, no!! I can’t be going backwards again. I was going so well. Getting so strong. On the way to recovery. What’s happening?! Why am I wiped out again? It can’t be. It can’t be a relapse. Can it?!” Sound familiar? It certainly sounds familiar to me. Twenty-one years of the…

On this ANZAC day in Australia I sit and reflect on the sacrifices so many people have made in the name of war. I salute the veterans throughout the world, especially those close to my heart. But it also makes me reflective of the silent war people with CFS and pain fight daily. My own…

I just got some good news. Make that GREAT news. I can’t even say what that news it at the moment (sworn to secrecy, but I’m DEFINITELY not pregnant or engaged or anything like that!!). Actually the news is not really about me, but I do get some great benefits from it. I’m just reflecting…

I put a lot of focus on laughter in my life. It’s such a deliciously free way to give yourself an endorphin boost. The beauty of laughter is we can all do it at any given moment in time. Why don’t you laugh now just for fun? I’m serious. Stop reading, and just laugh. If…

Is CFS your enemy or your ally? What a strange question, you may say, but whether we view our health issues as our ally or something to fight against makes a huge difference. For a long time I saw my illness as the enemy – something to fight, to resist, to plot against and to…

Oh, the irony!! For over 20 years I have battled the invisible nature of CFS and wished that there was some visible sign of how sick I really was at times. But now, after shaving my head for the Leukaemia Foundation’s World’s Greatest Shave three weeks ago, suddenly people ARE looking at me as if…

(For some time I have been resisting focussing this blog specifically on people living with CFS/ME/CFIDS. But when I resist something it’s usually a sign I should be doing it ;-), and this is no exception. So I have decided to now focus on writing blogs for people living with CFS because that is what…