Sunday, June 18, 2006

Not sure how I feel about this

New Scientist article

Thanks to The Goldfish for this link.

I've always been very focused on "well, ME/CFS is a bugger, but at least it can't kill me..."

May add more to this post later.

4 comments:

Anonymous said...

HI

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The Goldfish said...

Death from ME and CFS is still very rare, as it is in MS and other conditions. And usually it only effects older people. Statistically, you have a much better chance of entering 100% remission, than you are to be killed by this thing.

I am kind of sorry for mentioning this because I'm somewhat further along the road than you. If you want to talk about this, feel free to e-mail me

Anonymous said...

There is more about this death from CFS here, look at the right hand side of this webpage

http://www.investinme.org/

http://www.investinme.org/Article-050%20Sophia%20Wilson%2001.htm

It is not the first death, it is just the first Official death

An ME group for the severely affected
http://www.25megroup.org

Mary said...

I've calmed down considerably - not that I was hugely stressing, so please don't worry.

The bit that was getting me was that Sophia died aged 32 and had apparently had ME for 6 years, in other words she got it when she was 26. I got it when I was 23, so that's not a huge difference... but yeah, in all honesty there's a lot of other things will have plenty of opportunity to kill me before ME gets a chance.

I think it startled Steve a bit, but we had a nice long cuddle and all is well. :)