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 …
Hi, Despite being extra unwell with Covid19/Long Covid myself, I have been beavering away in the background (as much as my weary M.E-slammed body would allow) to try and make ‘the powers that be’ as aware as possible that Covid19 had the potential to cause chronic illness in many people during a pandemic…..any pandemic. My …
Well, that was certainly energy draining! ME Foggy Dog has learned from past experience of taking part in M.E awareness months and took the decision to ‘only’ actively take part in M.E awareness week this year. As a M.E patient myself, I simply do not have the energy to ‘up my efforts’ for a whole …
*Foggy* Morning! My P.A has woken up at stupid o’clock again. She has a really bad back and made the mistake of attempting to turn over in her sleep. OUCH. I’ve told her to make the most of her awake-ness and write a blog. It’s a blog we’ve been meaning to write for a while …
This extract from Piers Morgan’s book ‘Wake Up’ is the inspiration for this blog. It got me thinking about how our online patient community is perceived by those outside our ‘bubble’. It’s something that needs to be considered as it is those very people that we need to engage with our cause. ‘ If there …
