Chronic Fatigue Syndrome

That’s the question; but before I can answer that, I must first go back to where it began. As I write this it is close to Christmas 2022, a time that used to be full of wonder, and anticipation for the festivities, the glorious Christmas-Eve takeout, and the vast amount…

In understanding chronic illness, it’s important to not only learn about it from a doctor’s perspective, but true insight comes from a patient willing to share their very personal experience with it. Rachel S. has a story to share and it is one not only of suffering, but tremendous courage…

No, you’re not. I promise. Fatigue swells inside of my head, behind my eyes, clogs one ear only to pour itself out the other. Don’t tell me you know how I feel. Have you ever felt pain from fatigue? It is real. It is real to have to talk yourself…

Content warning: eating disorders; chronic illness For a while, I looked at anorexia recovery as crawling out of a cave. Exiting a pit of hibernation, scrawny but ready to look towards spring. That’s how I was made to think of it, too. Hit a magic number on the scales and…

Who I am and why I hope you will keep reading There’s always been a writer in me. For most of my life that writer has been caged up by my fear and exhaustion, when the discouraging voices in my mind tell me I’m not really a writer, or that…

August 25, 2017 Look. I can only promise boring and ugly. Also no happy ending. But it might make you feel luckier, prettier and happier. My story begins, fifteen years ago, with an unusual journey. My friend Fern was a veterinarian in Connecticut and came out to visit me in Africa every year. In Cape Town, she hired a car. Afterwards, we thought she must have been briefly disorientated by driving on…

August 25, 2017 Look. I can only promise boring and ugly. Also no happy ending. But it might make you feel luckier, prettier and happier. My story begins, fifteen years ago, with an unusual journey. My friend Fern was a veterinarian in Connecticut and came out to visit me in Africa every year. In Cape Town, she hired a car. Afterwards, we thought she must have been briefly disorientated by driving on…