Tag: attitudes
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I want to resign!
The other day having a conversation with Rob as I was upset that I rarely get to do things I want or enjoy doing cos I am too worn out form doing every day stuff and was saying that people who work full time and do all their own housework get more pleasurable things done…
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ME and Me
I am really wound up today, my heart is pounding, probably from sitting in Drs waiting room for over an hour, it was noisy, bright and uncomfortable, I feel rubbish and want to be able to rest to cope with Emily later, all I ever seem to do is ask her to be quieter calm…
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ME vs Cancer
Here is a great article about a fellow sufferer Jenny Andrews, who has had both ME and cancer and her experiences of the difference in attitude and treatment between the two and her descriptions of having ME. http://www.dailymail.co.uk/health/article-2861107/I-d-CANCER-chronic-fatigue-syndrome-Woman-s-battled-condition-10-years-says-people-unfairly-labelled-attention-seekers.html There are some great quotes“Jose Montoya, a professor of medicine at Stanford University and a leading expert…
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What is in a Name?
Well the latest in the ME/CFS world is what to call it again? But how important is a name? My name is Jane, does that tell you what I am like, how I behave, what I look like? My name means gracious, gift from god, I guess that would depend who you ask as to…
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ME, What we are up against! Updated again!
This article has been written in today’s Telegraph ME – Fear of exercise and other papers. I wish I was just afraid to exercise! I am afraid of the consequences when I do exercise, pain, fatigue, dizziness to mention just a few. The feeling of utter exhaustion from walking a small distance so much so that I…
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Elephants!
How do you deal with Elephants, I don’t mean the big grey things, but the one that always lurks in the room. ““Elephant in the room” is an English metaphorical idiom for an obvious truth that is either being ignored or going unaddressed. The idiomatic expression also applies to an obvious problem or risk no…
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New Year, Same Old
As ever Christmas has completely wiped me out, I feel really ill and in pain and don’t know what to do with myself, I want to sleep for weeks, but not an option as a) I don’t sleep well and b) life goes on regardless. Christmas was very hectic and I had little help or…
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Down again!
Feeling rather down again today, had a busy day yesterday. Does anyone else feel that everything is their fault and that people have a low opinion of you even though you try your hardest, its never good enough? I went out to the car this morning and found it unlocked, started telling myself how stupid…
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Feeling guilty and pathetic
How do you cope when you hear about other people being ill with serious illness? Does it make you feel guilty? And like you are making a fuss over nothing? And that you should be able to get up and carry on like others do?My thoughts for today. Many people have awful illnesses or problems…
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On the scrapheap!
Thank you to the man at the door yesterday who asked me if I was retired!! I know I look bad sometimes and am getting old, but I am 20 years off retirement age and how can you retire when you have never had a career or a proper stable job? It is depressing though…