The OT worker at the ME clinic was asking us to place ourselves where we thought we might be at some point in the future. The options were all less than where we had been before the illness.
I insisted that I would be at a higher point than before because this condition was transformational; She was not impressed.
I may not recover all my stamina or mental function but I have learnt other skills and I may be more effective because of that. I'm not sure that I'm grateful but I've learnt that there is a way forward. Thanks for sharing. E
A truly humbling insight of living with ME/ Chronic Fatigue Syndrome by: Sleepydust
Thanks so much for your heart-felt tale, Helen. ME/ Chronic Fatigue Syndrome is harrowing enough without having to go through trials and tribulations such as those you have had to endure.
Your words of hope, acceptance and understand of Self, will, I'm sure, provide light for many who read this.
I, for one, agree with you wholeheartedly. You put it so well when you wrote, 'ME/ Chronic Fatigue Syndrome forces you to understand who you are. I am grateful to ME/CFS, for without it I would never have discovered it is possible to be happy with nothing. I had to get ill to 'find myself'.'
So well put Helen. ME/ Chronic Fatigue Syndrome is a testing journey of illness, hardship, frustration, loneliness, and soul searching for many of us. But just as that Chinese saying goes, that the symbol for crisis is the same as for opportunity, so your words also ring true.
