Paul Garner’s recovery story from long COVID has met with almost universal dismay and anger from the chronic fatigue syndrome (ME/CFS) community. Garner, after all, was something of a champion for long COVID and ME/CFS. An infectious diseases specialist who had...
In 2015, Dean Echenberg, MD, PhD, a former public health official and Director of Disease Control in San Francisco at the height of the HIV/AIDS epidemic, had a question. His own course of ME/CFS had been anything but smooth. Echenberg had experienced years of illness...
A Story With Hope “Just over a year ago, I could not leave my house without a wheelchair. I spent most of my day on a couch or a bed, lying or sitting down. I avoided light, sounds, gatherings.” Christine I attended the Accelerating Research on ME/CFS...
The first five parts of Kyle McNease’s ME/CFS story (The Suffering of One is the Suffering of All) related his journey from an athletic Oxford student to a biological basket case. When we left him, Kyle was near the end of his rope: emaciated, wracked by...
In June, on our East Coast trip, my partner and I met up with Dan Moricoli in Palm Beach, Florida. I’d been corresponding on and off with Dan for at least ten years. In the late 2000’s, Dan had created the public CFS/Knowledge Center and the private ME/CFS Community...
Infection Fells Teenager In August 2014, a formerly very healthy and active Jack Schlanger entered the realm of the chronically ill. The thirteen-year-old’s story began with three days of high fever followed by eight days of lower-grade fever and extreme...
