Fibro/CFS/ME Foothold
Snowman With CFS
Look! Even the snowmen get CFS sometimes!!! Please be sensitive to the snowman’s smile and read The Open Letter To Those Without Fibro/CFS … and realize he might be happy but he’s not necessarily also healthy … as you can see!
A Sleep Study Dry Run
Written by Angela Ingram, May 2003. Used with permission. Instructions Dig out your just recently put away Chrissy tree lights. Either superglue or tape them to yourself (preferably both since that would be more realistic) not forgetting to stick some under your chin, a few on your scalp and a couple over your eyes. Find [...]
You Know You Have CFS When …
… you search all over for your purse at work, calling security, checking your car in the parking lot and finally deciding it is gone for good, before realizing that it is hanging on the back of your chair…under your sweater. — Cassie Selleck … you do the “Tim Conway Shuffle” all the way to [...]
Serenity Prayer For The Chronically Ill
Lord, grant me the serenity to accept The things I cannot change, The courage to change The things I can, And the wisdom to hide The bodies of Doctors I shot When they said, “You’re perfectly healthy, It’s All In Your Head." – Author Unknown
Top Ten Things NOT To Get A PWC For Christmas!
This list was first posted to the CFS-W list by Chameleon. Used with permission A new lawnmower. (Run by human power) A year’s free subcription to the “Health and Raquet” club. (Our local franchise for the exercise and keep it slim freaks) A bungy jump from the bridge at the Victoria falls. (Hey man, that’s [...]
CFS Acronyms Explained!
|Davey| from #OzME suggests this acronym for CFS: Chronic Flora Speed – this was suggested when |Davey| and I were talking and I mentioned that I liked sitting in the garden because I thought I moved about as slow as the flowers! Al suggested this one: Clinically F#^%@cked, Sorry! Mike Salamone emailed me with these [...]
Top 10 Ways To Know You’re A Homebound YPWC
(For the uninitiated: ‘YPWC’ stands for ‘Young Person With CFS’). This list was written by Jennifer Munn. Jenn signs all her email to the CFS-20s list with ‘CFIDS: Caring Friend in Dire Straits’! 10 – You find yourself taking 15 minutes to decide which T-shirt you’ll wear with which pair of boxer shorts. 9 – [...]
Letter To Santa
This letter was first posted to CFS-L Mailing List in December of 2003 by Susan Jones. It is used here with her full permission, thank you Susan! Dear Santa, I have been a really good girl this year as I had no other choice. Since I can’t drink and I have no energy to get [...]
Free Online Audio
These are some good free online audio sites which I have stumbled across in my travellings on the net. They offer interesting spoken-word stuff which can be listened to at leisure and for free (except where marked). RealAudio Assistive Media ABC Short Stories Hitchiking Off The Map MP3/Ogg Audiobooks For Free Audio Books Internet Archive: [...]
Entertainment
A new section! Especially for things that can help keep sick Fibromites and CFSers occupied during those lonely pain-filled and no-energy insomniac nights and sleepy days! Only one thing here just now, but it’ll grow. Free Online Audio – places to find stories and news items and radio stations all based on the spoken word, [...]
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