Hello, This will be a lazy blog post as I am ‘depleted’ of energy…or at least, I have just about enough left to type this up briefly! Watch this video http://https://youtu.be/1Qabwxufnlg Read these links – Guide to the rules on APPGs Myalgic Encephalomyelitis APPG Register of All Party Parliamentary Groups – M.E After reading and …
In just two weeks’ time, I turn 45. 45. Where did those years go?! My head still thinks I am 29 in my pre-M.E healthy body judging by the ridiculous non-M.E friendly things it still wants to do! My family have always been very open about all topics and the craziness and unusualness of the …
Hello, This is a blog I haven’t felt comfy about writing simply because I am now really unsure as to where the overlap is between my M.E symptoms and those which are entirely down to Covid19 – ‘Long Covid. My health is currently an awful lot of ifs, buts, and maybes and it’s not a …
Hello, Many of you will have seen my video from this morning, it has lead to a lot of questions from patients and a lot of alternative suggestions have been added into the mix. I am writing this blog partly to get my own thoughts into some semblance of order but also to give a …
Hello, I’m not going to write a very wordy blog giving readers my opinion on what is, or is not, happening right now in terms of biopsychsocial approaches within M.E/C.F.S ‘treatments’, the NICE guidelines delay (currently day 9), and Long Covid ‘treatments’ and research. I am going to give you ‘information’ in the form of …
Firstly, I think the Paralympic Games are an amazing opportunity for people with many disabilities and so this blog is not about the athletes themselves, or the notion of a Games for disabled people, but rather about the narrative promoted by the organising committee. I believe it creates a 2-tier level of what disabilities are, …
Wow, where do I start? ‘Team Foggy’ are back (on Monday) after having a 2 week break from social media, blogging, and podcasting. As I said in this blog, it all got a bit too much and I needed to step away for a bit. I knew I needed to ease back from everything and …
Long-standing Foggy Followers will know that I fairly regularly ‘step away’ from Foggy’s social media for a few days when everything gets a bit too much. I’ve been doing this increasingly more frequently over the past 6 months. I’m finding that, as a community, we have needed to be very reactive during the pandemic than …
Hello! My P.A has been working so hard on the serious side of her M.E work that she has not been doing much ‘fun stuff’ since the start of the pandemic. That is about to change! I told her to tweak my bucket list a little bit and the new 2021 version is here! As …
I have been pondering how the push to label Long Covid as a psychosomatic condition, and the incessant eagerness of some to see CBT as a ‘treatment’ for this kind of viral-onset illness, will impact the already overwhelmed mental health provision in the UK. There are a number of factors within my pondering. 1. Psychologists/psychiatrists …
