Please take 5 minutes out of your day to help me make a difference 
 - Don't PANIC though I aint expecting you to join me in the Head Shave ;-) xx

I was diagnosed with ME about 5yr ago after struggling for years trying to "manage" daily life.

Although my children had grown up and fled the nest I struggled each and every day to be "normal".

I loved my job with a passion yet getting into work and functioning became harder and harder with each passing day.

Letting people down became my motto and it nearly destroyed me!

But with the diagnosis of ME/CFS I finally began to breathe again!

I'm not mad !
I am ill !
And most of all :-
There is someone out there who understands this!!!!

North of Tyne ME/CFS group helped me more than I could ever begin to say and lately Disability North have removed sooo much pressure from my life.

I can never ever thank them both enough, but this is my way of trying :-)

There is now some ? about ME being the illness that affects me and whether it is in fact MS?

"What does it matter" I hear myself say "It's just a name and does not change my symptoms"

True in some ways, yet sooo wrong in others as there really is a huge difference!

MS is a recognised, accepted medical condition, Where although awareness has increased greatly ME is still stigmatised as the olde "Yuppy Flu"

So be it ME/MS or whatever causes me to be this way? I would like to give something back to 2 newcastle organisations that have helped me in more ways than I could ever ever explain x

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