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A Pause for Sophia (Sick Consciousness part 1)
To mark Severe ME Awareness Day 2021, 30 years after I first fell victim to post-viral ‘fatigue’, and 3 years since I first vowed to do it, I finally got strong enough to get a Pause tattoo. In my August … Continue reading
Posted in 00 M.E.
Tagged #SICK, energy-limiting chronic illness, Intersectional Illness, Invisibilised Illness, Jenny Rowbory, Long COVID, Long Covid and ME/CFS, Longhaulers, Pause tattoo, Severe ME Awareness Day, Sick Consciousness, SIck Power, Sick Pride, Sophia Mirza, the Pause pledge, We the Sick
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M.E. Too or Why I am No Longer NOT Speaking to Doctors about Chronic Illness
Three weeks ago, I met the first doctor in 25 years to believe me. She is a gynaecologist and I went to consult her about my intense peri-menopause rather than my autoimmune condition. As symptoms overlap however, I had to … Continue reading
Posted in 00 M.E.
Tagged #M.E.too, #metoo, #MillionsMissing, #saggyboobsmatter, #saggylivesmatter, #Spooniesplaining, A Girl Behind Dark Glasses, Anil van der Zee, Cort Johnson, Doctors and M.E., Dr Lin Feng-Chao, Dr Simon Wessely, Emily Collingridge, intersectional issues of invisible illness, invisible illness in global south, Jamison Hill, Jen Brea, Jenny Rowbory, Jenny Spotila, Jessica Kellgren-Fozard, Jessica Taylor-Bearman, Kaitlyn Plyley, Keep Chronic But Carry On, Lynn Gilderdale, MEAction, MEpedia, Merry Crofts, Open Medicine Foundation, Pause sign tattoo for Invisible Illness, Prof Ron Davis, Reni Eddo Lodge, Severe M.E. Day 8th August 2018, Sophia Mirza, Tom Kindlon, travelling with M.E., Unrest film
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A Crateful of Pomegranates
There was no denying it. Sampson was in love. Can your husband have an affair with a dog? Granted, Monte was a darling. Young, energetic, doe-eyed, silky-haired and constantly adoring – what’s not to love? So we went back to the lovely … Continue reading
Posted in 20a Europe
Tagged #CanyouseeMEnow, #M.E.too, #metoo, #MillionsMissing, Alison Hunter, deaths from ME, Dr Dimitri Karamaridis, Dr Simon Wessely, Emily Collingridge, history of ME/CFS, Itea Greece, Lynn Gilderdale, Margaret Williams, Martin Lev, Merryn Crofts, Nancy Klimas, PACE trial, Sophia Mirza, travelling with M.E., Vanessa Li
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Africa Clockwise 