by Cort Johnson | Jan 17, 2020 | Homepage, Recovery stories, Recovery Stories
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... 
by Christine Reesor | Jan 5, 2020 | Alternative Health, Homepage, Mind/body, Recovery stories, Recovery Stories, Treatment
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... 
by Cort Johnson | Jul 29, 2019 | Autonomic Nervous System, Homepage, HPA axis, Recovery Stories
Who better to write this piece “This college dropout was bedridden for 11 years. Then he invented a surgery and cured himself” than Ryan Prior – who himself recovered from a debilitating mysterious disease. Doug Lindsay’s story is so powerful... 
by Kyle McNease | Jul 22, 2019 | Homepage, Recovery Stories
Talk about survivor’s remorse. To this day, I still can’t come to terms with a world in which Jarret and Dan are cut down in their prime, while I continue on. That will never make sense to me. Not now. Not ever. It’s not worth concealing either. I feel guilt that I’m... 
by Kyle McNease | Jul 14, 2019 | Homepage, Recovery Stories
In Part IV of Kyle McNease’s ME/CFS narrative of going from abundant health to being severely ill and then back to relative health, Kyle is rocked both physically and emotionally by an unexpected and tragic loss. Thanks to Ken Anbender, a former ME/CFS patient, for... 
by Kyle McNease | Jul 6, 2019 | Homepage, Recovery Stories
In Part III of Kyle McNease’s narrative of going from abundant health to a severe case of ME/CFS, and then back to relative health, a loss hits Kyle hard, he ponders the fact that life didn’t realize he had other plans, and he comes to a surprising realization...
