My Workouts I’d started lifting weights at 15. Annually, I spent more than 1,500 hours working out, and by the age of 22, I had devoted over 10,000 hours of my life to the gym. By Malcolm Gladwell’s standards I was an expert at exercising. Most of my workouts were...
I felt particularly sick for a long time before our trek out west from New Jersey– woozy and aching and listless – and liable to crash miserably after almost anything, like unloading the dishwasher or washing and blow-drying my hair. Maybe, as my husband hypothesized,...
My Shrinking Life – 19 years and Counting …. and Still Hopeful of a Reprieve! – Tasha’s Story This is a long and involved story of my journey with M.E. The reason behind it is to show the problems I’ve encountered dealing both with the illness...
Christmas Week, 2013 Okay, so we all know the physical and emotional stresses for ME sufferers brought by the holidays. This year, I’m afraid, I added heaps more by agreeing to spend Christmas week in Hawaii at our time share with our children and now year-old...
We humans define ourselves in terms of what we can DO. With CFS you have an existential crisis, cause you think, “If I can’t DO, who or what AM I?” Chris B I walk to the wooden cubbies in my school’s front office to pick up my mail. Usually my box is...
Are You My Mother? One of the first books we read to our sons was by P.D. Eastman called Are You My Mother? A mother bird, wearing her white polka-dotted red head scarf or babushka as a symbol of family life, leaves her unhatched egg alone in its nest while she flies...
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