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On Getting Weary | Michael Hyatt
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“There’s no sin in getting weary; the sin is in giving up.”
— Tyler Perry
Daddy’s Little Girls

100 Incredible Lectures from the World’s Top Scientists | Best Colleges Online
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"Poetry and Productivity" by Robert Peake

Another post on CFS I'd like to share: The Seated View.
I, too, see my own experience in the quoted text, as well as in TumblyDay's experience of CFS shared here.

Orthostatic Intolerance is one of the symptoms often associated with CFS. This is a fairly recent interview with Greg Page about the illness that stopped him performing with the Wiggles.

There's some commonalities between his experience and that of CFS sufferers:

The difficulty of getting a diagnosis, particularly when you don't "look" sick,

I’d be told that ‘you’re really healthy, there’s nothing wrong’…and you’d think, well it must be OK, or my imagination, or just something that’s not a real issue so just push through it…

And the irony of being happy with any diagnosis, even if it's a bad one, so long as you finally get one.

Click one the picture to be taken to the video page.

9am

During Awareness week, Channel Ten did an interview with Dr Don Lewis and a young CFS patient Imogen Newhouse. Dr Lewis has been my CFS doctor for many years. While the information about the science and treatment may not have come across very clearly, that's more a feature of the illness itself, as there's too much involved to fit it into a short tv segment. I thought both interviewees were great, though, with the hosts taking it seriously (with none of the usual cliches like "yuppie flu" etc) and asking good questions.

Check it out:

9am with David & Kim - Interview with Dr Lewis & Imogen Newhouse

If the video disappears after a while, I'll might put it up in my video's here.

[ found via greenwords, who also has some great comments ]