Fibro/CFS/ME Foothold
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The content provided on this web site is for general informational purposes only. It is intended to provide educational material and is not designed to provide medical advice.
Because medicine and health-care practices are growing and changing rapidly, some of the information [...]
Ambulance Transfers – Another Option
For those with very severe ME/CFS or other chronic illnesses, using the non-urgent ambulance service to transport you to medical appointments can be a good option.
General Postal Voting
Many of those of us with CFS may have requested a postal vote for an election at one time or another when an election and one of those dreaded big CFS crashes came at the same time … But did you know that if you ring up the right person and fill out the right [...]
Victorian Resources
This section contains articles which have been written especially for my local CFS/ME Association’s Newsletter – Emerge – and which I have put on the net in case they can help others. These articles will be mostly helpful for people living in Victoria, Australia.
My ‘Surviving CFS’ series of articles pointed out resources specifically helpful [...]
Chronic Financial Stress
As if CFS didn’t mess up our plans for our lives enough already, there’s another CFS we have to deal with – Chronic Financial Stress. And like the real CFS, it can be difficult to cope with and tricky to treat. The good news is that there are lots of financial tips and things that [...]
Getting Practical Help
Council Services
Your local council probably provides home help and meals on wheels. These services are usually provided to the elderly but they are also available for the disabled and chronically ill. You will probably have to pay a token fee, usually less than $10 per hour, for the services.
Home help will come regularly during the [...]
The Victorian Aids & Equipment Program
Do you need rails to hold onto in the the shower? Would a wheelchair or scooter make your life easier? Do you need anything like this such as a shower stool or chair, or a keypad to open your door because you live alone and can’t get to it yourself? Is there anything else in [...]
Talking Books – A Useful Resource
What are talking books? They are fiction or non-fiction books – sometimes full-length and sometimes condensed or abridged – which have been narrated and the narration saved onto an audio tape, CD-ROM, or even directly onto a computer disk.
There are three main sources for talking books:
Your local library, and even your local bookshop, probably has [...]
Typical Days With Fibro/CFS
This page started when I was trying to think of a way to explain to my family what it was like being sick. Like the rest of you, my day varies according to what I feel like doing, and it also varies a great deal according to how sick I am that day. These are my best attempts at a ‘typical’ day I would have around and near the given dates.
A Typical Day: Jodi Bassett
By Jodi Bassett, June 2004. Used With Permission. Please send comments or queries to: jodibassett@bigpond.com.
I’m a 28 year old Australian woman and have had Myalgic Encephalomyelitis/Chronic Fatigue Syndrome for almost ten years now. I have based this account on an actual day I had recently and although it’s a notoriously unstable illness, it’s an accurate [...]