Inspirational People: Dr Sarah Myhill

Today I would like to continue my theme of acknowledging inspirational people. These blog items are to celebrate some of the people I have discovered online, in print or in person, who have motivated me to take control of my health, my life and my independence. These are people who have instilled in me a…

Who Are You? And the Joy of Doing Nothing

Today I want to write about doing. It’s an overused phrase that we should be human beings not human doings, but nothing slams that home with a slap in the chops, quite like sudden-onset chronic illness. Before I became ill, I was busy. I mean really busy. I worked long full-time hours as the Chief…

In the beginning there was ME/CFS and Fibromyalgia

In the Spring of 2014, I developed an extraordinary headache.  I consider myself fortunate that I’ve never been a very headachey person – apart from a corking red wine hangover once which I’ll never forget. But this headache was unlike anything I’d experienced before and surpassed the achievements of even the cruellest cheap red plonk….