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6 Dec 2019
Gillian Watson, an MECFS Canterbury member, recently sat down with Oliver Lewis from stuff.co.nz and detailed her experiences with the ME/CFS. Being told to keep pushing was detrimental.
Gillian Watson recently sat down with Oliver Lewis from stuff.co.nz and detailed her experiences with the ME/CFS.
"I was told it was all in my head so I kept pushing. Which is the worst thing you can do with Chronic fatigue syndrome. I did a degree in chemical engineering so I am, well I was, a smart cookie. I used to deal with complex analytical data in my work. I went from that to barely being able to budget at home."
"Chronic fatigue syndrome isn't necessarily a degenerative disease but it can be if you keep pushing. And I believe that I wouldn't necessarily have the degree of difficulty I have with speaking and my mobility issues today if I'd got that message much sooner."
Thank you Gillian for sharing some of your story with this debilitating illness.