Getting Older: A Chronic Fatigue Syndrome Patient Faces a Difficult Decision
It’s the Bones, Stupid The endocrinologist and gynecologist both gasped at the results of my latest bone density scan. “If you don’t do something, you’ll wind up in a nursing home soon,” warned the endocrinologist. They insist that I take either Prolia or Reclast,...
Ennui . . . and Spring
I suppose I’m depressed, but it’s not the slam-bang suck-out-my-soul torture of the early illness days when I choked inside my own Pigpen-like dust storm. I have my distractions. I can laugh out loud at the satire of HBO’s “Last Week Tonight with John Oliver” and...
Is It Time To Give Up Trying Pt. II: Breaking the Addiction for a Cure
“I do not hope for a cure or a radical positive change in my condition; instead I believe in the possibility of pleasurable moments.” Carol Lefelt I am overwhelmed by the large number of responses to my last piece about reaching the age of 70 and feeling...
“Is it Time To Give Up Trying?” Thoughts at Age Seventy From ‘A Chronic Fatigue Syndrome Chronicle’
I felt particularly sick for a long time before our trek out west from New Jersey– woozy and aching and listless – and liable to crash miserably after almost anything, like unloading the dishwasher or washing and blow-drying my hair. Maybe, as my husband hypothesized,...StudyME
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