This article was written by Jenn Vesperman. Used with permission.
I avoided my high school reunion.
I don't like social occasions much anyway. I hate getting tired so quickly, I hate having to avoid smoke. I hate all the 'good advice' about CFS, if I explain why. I hate the wierd looks if I don't.
But that's not why I avoided my high school reunion.
From time to time I meet someone who I knew years ago, but still while I was sick. The response seems to be 'oh, are you still sick?' followed by 'so what have you been doing?'
I've been being sick, dammit.
I hate that.
But these people knew me when I was well.
I just don't think I could possibly cope with being sick in their presence. I don't think I could cope with knowing what they've been doing. Seeing the doctors, the lawyers, the people who've got kids. The ones who've divorced. The ones who've remarried.
Seeing people with lives.
I think it'd kill me.
