Tag: understanding

  • Daily Living with ME Pt2

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    Jane Shaw
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    Way back in 1990 I began training to be a nurse. It was great, I loved it so much, but sadly like many other things in my life it was brought to an end by ill health. When we were assessing patients we used a model called Activities of Daily living devised by Roper Logan…

  • Pride and Prejudice Pt2

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    Jane Shaw
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    Well it’s been a stressful weekend with awful events happening affecting people close to me and although I am not directly involved or affected it has been very distressing and makes me feel so helpless and annoyed with myself for complaining about my own issues which seem quite trivial in comparison.  It also makes 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…

  • Not Enough Beans

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    Jane Shaw
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    I found this explanation of ME energy very good and easy to understand, http://sweetbriarsisters.com/blog/cfs-awareness-understanding-crashes/.  I have pasted the full article here; How To Understand CFS Crashes in 5 Minutes or Less If you have a friend with Chronic Fatigue Syndrome you’ve, no doubt, heard about how she’ll crash after an eventful day.  But hearing about such…