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Education and M.E.

Clare — Tue, 27 Aug 2019 10:37:47 +0000

I became unwell, with what was eventually diagnosed as M.E., in January 2005, when I was 12 years old. I had just completed my first term at secondary school and was enjoying making new friends, learning new subjects and even the independence of being able to walk to school on my own when illness struck. […]

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What I mean when I say….

Clare — Fri, 09 Aug 2019 11:01:13 +0000

I’ve known for a while now that my answers to the question “How are you?” are very different to that of most people, particularly those who are healthy. They sound very much the same as you’d hear from anyone else, and yet they mean entirely different things. You see, when you first have a chronic […]

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Loneliness

Clare — Thu, 20 Jun 2019 16:16:51 +0000

A big part of life with M.E. or any other chronic illness for that matter is how isolating it can be. Being too unwell to leave the house for long, if at all, makes for quite a lonely existence. Back in 2005 when I first became ill, loneliness had more of an impact than it […]

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My Story

Clare — Thu, 09 May 2019 09:34:19 +0000

I was 12 years old, in my first term of secondary school when I got a sickness bug. I spent a week off and then returned to school. But I was struggling – I had a sore throat, headache, all my muscles and joints ached and I tired very easily. My parents put this down […]

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