“A post-viral tsunami is hitting our health services, yet in the UK it doesn’t even seem to be on the national agenda.”
Paul Garner, Professor at the Liverpool School of Tropical Medicine, talks about those who have not recovered from Covid-19.
Ignorance
ME Awareness: “What you need,” he said, “is a job harvesting cabbages,” by Ruth Rookledge | 25 May 2020
“For about the next year or so I thought I must just be imagining an illness, that it was my fault, it wasn’t real…”
ME Awareness: “These lost years have been a grieving process; a loss of a past life that seems so far away,” Naomi Gilchrist | 24 May 2020
“I hope that one day I will be able to use my lost years to help others by raising awareness of the plight of those living with M.E.”
ME Awareness: “I went to my GP to be told that M.E. did not exist as a recognised illness!” by Wend Jordan | 20 May 2020
“There is still such a stigma attached to M.E. that I rarely talk about it even if people ask – I’m worried by their reaction.”
Very Severe ME: It’s Time for Something New! By Greg Crowhurst | 16 August 2019
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I have cared day and night for my wife who has lain in unspeakable torment, torture and agony, for twenty-six years.
Severe ME Day: A Call to Act with Truth and Integrity by Greg Crowhurst | 08 August 2019
Severe ME Day: A Call to Act with Truth and Integrity by Greg Crowhurst | 08 August 2019 Read More »
The impact of these last three decades of attempts to bury the serious disease M.E. under a sea of unrelated and vague “fatigue conditions” has been catastrophic for patients.
Introducing Severe M.E. Week from the ME Association | 05 August 2019
Introducing Severe M.E. Week from the ME Association | 05 August 2019 Read More »
It is Severe ME Day on Thursday, but we think people severely affected deserve to have a full week dedicated to raising awareness.