Debilitating Illness has Taken Away the Real Me

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As part of ME Awareness Day, Kathleen Kallaway, of Clayhidon in Mid Devon, writes about her 15-year experience with the disorder ME "WILL I ever get better?" replaced "When will I get better?" as a constant question to my GP as the months went by and I saw little improvement.

My illness began in November, 1995. I thought I had avoided the flu which had been rampaging through Britain for several weeks but, one morning, unable to get out of bed or even lift my head off the pillow, I realised I hadn't.

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Debilitating Illness has Taken Away the Real Me

Three weeks later, after one week of feeling better, I awoke to find no power in my muscles, severe pain in all my joints and muscles, a blinding headache, rapid heart bea...

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