Tag: ability

  • What Can I Do?

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    Jane Shaw
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    What can you do was a question asked on a facebook page the other day.  I answered ” I am limited due to health problems and get so hung up on what I can’t do. It’s much better to focus on what I can do and be proud of what I acheieve, but I don’t think…

  • One More Step Along The World We Go

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    Well I survived my birthday, got some lovely presents and visited  Kitty Cafe Leeds for tea and cake 🙂 There is an amazing selection of teas and lots of cute cats so that’s me sorted We have been back again twice!!  It’s not cheap as you have to pay per person per visit plus anything you eat…

  • 20 years and counting!

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    Jane Shaw
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    What have you been doing for the last 20 years?  Me I have been busy living with ME.  Here is my latest rhyme. 20 years with M.E, 20 years since things went wrong. 20 years since I lost me, 20 years, it’s far too long. 20 years of missing out, 20 years of feeling ill.…

  • Useless.com

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    I spend a lot of time feeling totally useless, and guilty.  Last week was particularly bad after, trying to sort out my craft stuff and move it to be more accessible, but of course when I do anything like that I have to pay for it and have landed myself in bed a few times from…

  • Pride and Prejudice Part 1

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    Jane Shaw
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    No, I am not on a trip to the library, but as usual trying to juggle everyday life and illness. The book title kept popping into my head, I think because of the daily internal arguments over what I should be doing, could be doing, can do, can’t do and what is best for me…

  • ME is real and it’s bad

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    Jane Shaw
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    I have seen a few things this week trying to get across the impact of ME and how it affects us Firstly an article from Health Rising, “The authors looked at median and mean quality of life scores. The median scores are a more accurate measurement of a community because they’re not skewed by people with…

  • Steps…..

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    Jane Shaw
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    Today was Emily’s school year 6 leavers service in church.  Only 3 years and it will be her turn!  Time moves on so fast and I feel like I have been left behind as I am so stuck with this stupid illness.  I try to move on and be happy and take pleasure from things,…

  • ME and Pain

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    Jane Shaw
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    I am in ridiculous amounts of pain at the moment, it is going right through me and I can’t tell if it’s my back or my stomach or both!  It was the same yesterday, it is making me feel really sick too.  It was like this yesterday and painkillers didn’t help, so trying to avoid…

  • Another year older

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    Jane Shaw
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    Thank you to everyone for my birthday and anniversary messages. We went out for lunch at http://2oxfordplace.com/ and went to see a small exhibition at Thackray Medical Museum http://wellcomecollection.org/…/georgie-meadows-stitched-dr…. I had a party tea with Emily. I felt pretty rubbish by the end of the day, it’s a shame ME doesn’t give us one day off! Rob got me…

  • ME, tell it how it is

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    Jane Shaw
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    I have come across many good graphics in the last few days and as I don’t have the energy for writing today I thought I would share those instead To comment on this post, please click the header to this article. This will take you to my blog on blogger.com