Lucie's Surprisingly Simple Road to Recovery

Lucie's Surprisingly Simple Road to Recovery

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Resource Type
Patient Story
Name
Lucie
Diagnosis
  1. Chronic Fatigue Syndrome
Disease Course Over Time
In her early 50's Lucie just got worse and worse. She had to stop her bicycle rides, had difficulty walking, and cut down her work hours to 2 a day
Duration
11-15 years
Functionality at it's Worst
Able to work part-time
Symptoms
Extreme fatigue
Treatments That Made A Big Difference
NSAID (naproxen) in combination with salt water, compression stockings and pacing.
Present State of Health
  1. Fully recovered - no restrictions at all
Practitioner Associated With Recovery
Dr. Rowe
Story
Words of Advice
Knowing that a crash might be hiding somewhere in the future, I keep a Post-it near my computer screen, a copy of a graffiti I saw in Montreal. Where somebody had written “no hope”, someone else had added a K and a W to transform it to “KnoW hope”.
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Cort
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