alsAs many of you will know and have followed our story, my Daughter became ill over 4 years ago with ME. She is now diagnosed as Severe ME, Fibromyalgia plus other conditions. I am feeling Let Down Again, by medical professionals. This morning when sorting out her morning medication, it suddenly hit me that we have been let down again. This should not be a surprise really. Also for you as I have written about this many times before. Medical Professionals When C first became ill we had a lovely (at first) Consultant who seemed to generally care about C. …
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Day 6 of ME Awareness week today I am writing ME Awareness Week 2019 – A Letter To C. I have not done this for a while and although say it to her all the time. It is nice to read it as well. ME Awareness Week 2019 – A Letter To C Dear C You have been ill since you were 11 years old. At first we just thought you were getting used to Secondary school. It was new to you and a lot harder than Primary School. Nothing prepared us for when you had your first crash and…
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Day 5 of ME Awareness week I am going to talk about ME Awareness Week 2019 – Extra Support our children desperately needs. Education Unlike healthy children, who go to school every day, children with ME or another illness can not have this luxury. C like many other children struggled and tried to carry on at school. Unfortunately, they can not cope due to the fatigue, the brain fog and pain plus many other symptoms. Causing them to crash and become bedbound. I was very lucky that our school worked with us trying different ways to help her manage school.…
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Carrying on my week of posts for ME Awareness Week 2019. Today I am writing ME Awareness Week 2019 – A Parents View, where I share the reality of how a parent of a child with a chronic illness copes. Before ME Struck C has always been a bubbly, happy and chatty little girl. She was always doing something whether it was her dance class, scouts, playing, art, she was always busy. Loved school and got on with everyone, and loved taking part in after school clubs. She started her new school, and was loving the freedom of going to…
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Following on with ME Awareness Week, today I am going to talk about medical support. I will be talking about our personal experiences, but unfortunately this is nationwide. Today we talk about ME Awareness Week – Medical Support. The Diagnosis ME is very hard to get a diagnosis for, which is understandable. Usually after 3 months of getting no better and various tests have been carried out you will get a diagnosis of ME/CFS. This is also the time, you feel relieved that you know what is wrong with you. What you are facing. But unsure of where your future…
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As you will have seen from my post yesterday, this week is ME Awareness week, and everyday this week I will be posting a different post regarding ME. Yesterday I wrote about what ME is. Today I am sharing our story of how ME came into our lives. Before ME Struck She had just finished Primary school and was looking forward to starting her new Secondary school in the September. She was moving there with friends and they were all excited. During the summer holidays we had spent a fortune on her uniform and accessories. As a treat my parents…
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ME Awareness Week 2019 runs from the 6th to 12th May, you can find out more about it on the ME Associations website ME Awareness Week 2019 As many of you know my Daughter C has been unwell since 2015. Finally being diagnosed with ME and Fibromyalgia, plus other conditions. This week I am going to be highlighting all the different aspects of the illness. Including our story, medical support, and more importantly what is ME. What is ME I will start at the beginning and explain what Myalgic Encephalomyelitis or ME for short is. ME is a long-term chronic,…
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Another month is over and time to welcome in a new month. What a month April has been for us. It has certainly been a rollercoaster of months. So time to say Goodbye April – Hello May 2019. Starting with C There has been no change in her this month. She is still bedbound and still in lots of pain. I have been noticing that she is awake a lot during the night. This is due to her head and leg pains. We had her Neurology appointment on Tuesday. We last saw her Neurologist Consultant in December, so it was…
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Well we are into April already, how is the year going so fast. It can only mean one thing and time for my monthly update post. Where I wave goodbye to March and look ahead to April. I am glad to be saying goodbye to March. Especially the last few days which as many other Bloggers will agree has been quite stressful. Goodbye March and Hello April I will start with C There is no change in her, she has been on the new medication that her Consultant prescribed back in December. Which has had no effect on her at…
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As you will all know by now, my Daughter C has a chronic illness. She is currently still bed bound due to a number of reasons. We have been referred to physiotherapy, but due to how bad she currently is, we have had to postpone it as she is just too ill. But we have talked about getting back into swimming. Even if she just manages 5-10 minutes in the water to start with and then increase as we go along. C always loved swimming before she became ill. We used to go weekly and as she grew more confident…





