Category: CFS/ME

when your magic beans are missing

Chronic illness results in paradox – longing not to be alone but too exhausted to reach out; feeling isolated but then being drained by too much social activity. We – and it is ‘we’, for there are many of us – live in that difficult balance. It’s a balance that even the most practised of us often lose, because although in adapting to our situation things can get easier, they never get easy.

enforced rest…

So, I am ill. After trying to make a slow come back after the virus I had for two weeks over Christmas, I was struck by another last weekend. It’s been nearly a week, but I’m still flagging – at this point the irritated chronic fatigue is hard to tell from the virus, although the…… Continue reading enforced rest…