Tag: cfs
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How I Stay Organised To Manage My CFS
I’ve mentioned this a few times before but I have Chronic Fatigue Syndrome. It has taken a while but my CFS has improved enough that I almost have enough energy to live a relatively normal life. I don’t work but I am currently studying graphic design, I also run this blog which takes up a…
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Can I Be A Graphic Designer With CFS
I am finding myself becoming increasingly frustrated with my CFS. I have so many different things I want to be working on just now (some of which I’m actually getting paid for) and I can’t because I’m so tired. This is mostly because I’m back at college and college work is more important than my…
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5 Things I Learned From Having CFS
It has been almost exactly 2 years since I was diagnosed with Chronic Fatigue Syndrome so I thought I would do a little post sharing what I’ve learned from having CFS. Bedtimes are mandatory. In the past if I wanted to stay up till 3am reading fanfictions I could do that. Now I have a…
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Worrying, Books, and Moon Hitler
I have been horribly unwell all week and as such haven’t been able to write any posts. So instead of writing something I thought I would share one of this week’s journal entries because journalling is a thing I do now. I don’t know why I worry so much, this time I was worrying about…
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Going Back To Education With A Chronic Illness
So I did an update post a few weeks ago where I said that I was doing fine and wasn’t having any problems with my CFS… yeah I spoke too soon. Admittedly it did start out okay but the last three weeks have been awful. Its not been good at all, which is really annoying…
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On Being Tired
I first learned about ME when I was 10. I didn’t know much about the illness but I knew enough that I though it would be a fun thing to have. I mean any illness that gets you time off school must be good right? As it turns out ME or CFS or SEID or…
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On Negativity
There is a person I want to talk about. I sort of look up to them in a way. It was because of this person talking about their medical issues that I realised what I was experiencing was not just the after effects of anaesthetics and could possibly be caused by something else. We were…
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Unemployed
I have now been signed off work for 11 months. For 9 of those months I was receiving Employment Support Allowance. However at the end of July I received a letter stating I had to attend a “fitness for work” assessment. I could probably write an entire blog post about how terrible ATOS and their…
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Tiny Watercolours
Every time I visit the doctor I am asked how much time I have spent painting. Not because my doctor has a specific interest in my artwork but because it is a good way of telling how tired I have been in a specific month. The last two months have been particularly difficult and as…
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I Am Not My Chronic Illness?
If I were to summarise this blog it would probably go something like “the story of a girl studying graphic design”. But that was before I got diagnosed with a chronic illness. It is true that at one point I did study graphic design, but not for very long. If we want to get scientific…
The Paper Kind 