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Tag Archives: travelling with M.E.
Haboob
It wasn’t until the colours of Sudan hit me that I realised how oppressively drab the standard wear of Egypt was: men in brown or dark grey and women mostly in sober tones, often black. In Sudan the men wear … Continue reading
Posted in 22 Sudan
Tagged Dongola, haboob, sudanese houses, travelling with M.E., Wadi Halfa
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Egypt 5: Marsa Shagra – Reef Break
The first thing Red Sea Diving Safari founder Hossam Helmy told me was how pregnant black and white tip reef sharks are the only shore sharks of the 12 species found in the Red Sea. They come to shore to … Continue reading
Egypt 4: Hurghada ‘Dog Tired’
Let me tell you a bit about my husband. I spent a chunk of my early twenties confined to my bed or my house. Once I found my feet on the road to recovery I was eager to catch up … Continue reading
Posted in 21 Egypt
Tagged Anil van der Zee, Arabia Azur hotel, CCI and ME, FGM, Green Star Hotels, Happy Dolphin, Heba Shawky, HEPCA, Marriott Beach Resort Hurghada, ME and POTS, Playkite, pomegranate anti-inflammatory, ProBio, Red Sea tourism, spinal injury and M.E., travelling with M.E., Zafarana Food Court
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Egypt 3: Alright Giza?
Wednesday 6th December 2017 was a great day in the life of the Sampson family. What this picture of us at the pyramids doesn’t show is how it took me a week to work up enough strength to get there, … Continue reading
Posted in 21 Egypt
Tagged Hoda Shaarawy, Khafre, Khufu, Mena House Hotel, Menkaure, pyramids of Giza, Sphinx, travelling with M.E.
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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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Pantokrator
Somehow, between Montenegro and Greece, it seemed all ideas of giving Monte away to some kind people had evaporated. We crossed into the Hellenic peninsula on Sampson’s 51st birthday and I think he felt the universe had given him a … Continue reading
We Are Not Europe
You are going to have to bear with me for the next few blogs. I usually write my most vivid impressions down as we’re going along, and polish them up for consumption later, but from November to February I was … Continue reading
Posted in 20a Europe
Tagged Bay of Kotor, Bosnia, Crna Gora, DJ Black Coffee, Dubrovnik, Montenegrin border, Montenegro, travelling with M.E.
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We Interrupt This Blog To Bring You….
Happy New Year from the Sampson family. If you would like to understand why I keep falling behind with this blog, what ‘relapse’ means to me and how I become too weak to write, please join us in the Big … Continue reading
