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I have been fortunate enough (or perhaps foolish, when you think of how exhausting my body finds being out of its comfort zone) to have had a few little holidays crammed into the last few months.  I don’t need to be told how lucky I am to have been able to manage such a meanContinue reading “Away Days”

I will be frank. Last night I had an almighty panic attack. I haven’t had many of them before and they are only something I have experienced since being ill. So today I am frail and fractured and fragile. I felt it coming, so much so that I told Mr Tree Surgeon before it hitContinue reading “Outpouring”

Today, the 10th September, marks 6 years since the start of my M.E. Years.  And it doesn’t feel as bad as I thought it would.  To say that life has not gone as I thought it would seems somewhat of an understatement. I have long forgotten what it’s like not to wake up poorly andContinue reading “The girl who was”

Today (apparently) marks two whole years since my last stint in the dining room.  If you’ve only recently joined my ‘M.E. myself and I’ journey this may well mean absolutely nothing to you, but quite simply, there was a time during the last few years when I was too unwell to walk up or climbContinue reading “Those Dining Room Days Revisited”

I am a bit nervous to go home today. It feels a bit silly to feel like this. But the other day, when the postman was ringing our doorbell & I was too poorly to get out of bed to answer the door, I overheard the woman next door say something about me in aContinue reading “The perceptions of others”