Chronic Fatigue Syndrome Support Group
Chronic Fatigue Syndrome (ME/CFS) describes a sense of exhaustion and post-exertion malaise, even when you have gotten enough rest and sleep. The disease is characterized by six months of incapacitating fatigue experienced as profound exhaustion and extremely poor stamina, and problems with concentration and short-term memory. The cause is unknown, but it is a...
This may be too soon to ask, but do YOU have a favorite Thanksgiving holiday moment? Would love to hear about it!
I often joke with my Aunt, now 94, about how when I was growing up, my (adopted) family would drive from New York to New Jersey to have Thanksgiving meal with my Grandmother and Aunt. So I remind Aunt Charlotte on how, once that delicious homemade meal that Grandma fussed lovingly to make us was eaten with delight, how Aunt Charlotte and her brother, my dad, would playfully fight over the size of the slice of pumpkin pie. "Do you remember" I'd remind Aunt Charlotte, "on how we'd get out that punkin pie, set it on the table, and how you'd slice a piece of pie and put it on a plate and then your brother Lou would playfully grab the rest of that pie plate, put it in front of him, and say, Thank you for MY slice of pie" and this always gets Aunt Charlotte laughing.
While this year's Thanksgiving hasnt taken place, I can say how very thankful I am of my mother Caroline's strength of battling breast cancer this year and becoming a survivor and how special this years thanksgiving is celebrated with her all healthy again!
Hugs and Happy Thanksgiving to you all! Ellen
I often joke with my Aunt, now 94, about how when I was growing up, my (adopted) family would drive from New York to New Jersey to have Thanksgiving meal with my Grandmother and Aunt. So I remind Aunt Charlotte on how, once that delicious homemade meal that Grandma fussed lovingly to make us was eaten with delight, how Aunt Charlotte and her brother, my dad, would playfully fight over the size of the slice of pumpkin pie. "Do you remember" I'd remind Aunt Charlotte, "on how we'd get out that punkin pie, set it on the table, and how you'd slice a piece of pie and put it on a plate and then your brother Lou would playfully grab the rest of that pie plate, put it in front of him, and say, Thank you for MY slice of pie" and this always gets Aunt Charlotte laughing.
While this year's Thanksgiving hasnt taken place, I can say how very thankful I am of my mother Caroline's strength of battling breast cancer this year and becoming a survivor and how special this years thanksgiving is celebrated with her all healthy again!
Hugs and Happy Thanksgiving to you all! Ellen
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Hi Everyone- Hope you are hanging in there. This disease can be so terrible :( I just wanted to post some updates on the current research for ME/CFS. For those that missed it, the 3rd symposium held by The Open Medicine Foundation was on Saturday. I tried to watch online and am still going back to watch what I missed. Videos are availabe on their facebook page and soon to be uploaded to...
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I have been here before, a long long time ago and now I am back.Forgive me for not just saying what I want to say,even under a triple dose of antidepressants it is still raw and seeping and I am hesitant at revealing it as at least under the bandages around my heart I don,t have to look at how raw and wounded.My child was cleaved from my heart by his own actions. my child of ten,turning eleven...
My mother used insist that we say a prayer at the big Thanksgiving day meal, we didn't say it on a daily basis. The prayer that we would say was, "Come Lord Jesus, be our guest, let all our gifts be blessed. Amen." Well, this one Thanksgiving meal this is how my Mom said the prayer.
"Come Lord Jesus, be our guest, Oh no I forgot to put salt in the potatoes, (the whole family group had to LOL), let all our gifts be blessed. Amen."