8th August is Severe ME Remembrance and Awareness Day

Today, 8th August, is Severe ME Remembrance and Awareness Day for all those who have lost their lives to this horrific disease, and for those still living with it.

People who knew me before I was ill may think my situation is bad (and don't get me wrong, I'm not saying it's great), however I honestly count myself as fortunate as I know so many others who have much, much more severe ME than I do. I know of people who have died from it, I know people who literally only have days to live, and I know people for whom every day is a living nightmare.

My worst days are utterly hellish, and I have an agreement with my doctor that I can knock myself out with sleeping tablets on those days so that I don't have to be conscious through it, and yet days like that would probably count as a rare good day for someone with very severe ME. The level of their suffering is unimaginable - but so is their courage and strength of spirit. If only willpower, determination and fight determined prognosis, these would be the healthiest people in the world.

https://www.facebook.com/Amelia.Alice.Jewellery/photos/a.556881831017647.1073741826.556868657685631/739142102791618/?type=1

I want to write something meaningful, eloquent and informative, to honour these brave warriors and to raise awareness. But I can't. I just don't have it in me at the moment to write a proper post. But I guess that's kind of the point. Those of us with severe and very severe ME need others to take up the fight, because all our fight is spent just on surviving.

So I'm sorry for not being able to write a proper post, but please click on the links below for information written by others about Severe ME Remembrance Day and about severe ME, and please share this post or at least some of these links; the world needs to know what is happening, and those with severe ME need to know they are not forgotten. Thank you.


Individual stories:
https://www.facebook.com/Amelia.Alice.Jewellery/photos/a.556881831017647.1073741826.556868657685631/739142102791618/?type=1

http://documentingme.net/2014/07/31/one-more-update/

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/women/womens-health/11018709/What-its-like-to-live-with-severe-ME.html
(NB: men get ME too so I don't know why this fantastic article is in the women's section!)

http://sciencevsantiscience.wordpress.com/2014/08/08/severe-m-e-day-a-commemoration-of-sophia-mirza-1973-2005/


3 fantastic posts on Sally Burch's blog:
http://sallyjustme.blogspot.co.uk/2014/08/blackdress.html

http://www.sallyjustme.blogspot.co.uk/2014/08/living-death.html

http://www.sallyjustme.blogspot.co.uk/2014/08/PriceME.html


25% Group & Stonebird Aug 8th Press Release (PDF):
http://www.stonebird.co.uk/aug8.pdf


Stonebird - a brilliant website about severe ME:
http://www.stonebird.co.uk


Facebook info about August 8th Severe ME Day:
https://www.facebook.com/events/728127103921492?refid=28&_ft_=qid.6045132037364973732%3Amf_story_key.2374500764615100110&__tn__=C

https://www.facebook.com/severemeday


Quotes from some internationally respected doctors about ME:
http://speakupaboutme.wordpress.com/about-mecfs


Facebook memorial page for those who have died:
https://www.facebook.com/groups/167151669963500


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