Category Archives: illness

Looking back, looking ahead…

Posted on January 15, 2019 by dSavannah

So, y’all, it’s 2019. Not sure how… after all, I still remember when a credit card expiration of the year 2000 was wild. And no one would quite believe me when I used it to pay for something over the … Continue reading →

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#MEAwareness: Guest Poetry Post by Bill Clayton

Posted on December 12, 2018 by dSavannah

dSavannah note: I’m in quite a few Myalgic Encephalomyelitis (MEcfs) support groups online, and I ran across this poem by a fellow #pwME (patient with ME), Bill Clayton. I asked if I could post it on my blog, and he … Continue reading →

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Hello? Is this thing on?

Posted on November 17, 2018 by dSavannah

So, it’s been a minute (or more like 311,040 at the time of this writing, but who’s counting?) since I last published a blog post. In my previous life (before becoming a Sick Person), I could multi-task like nobody’s business. … Continue reading →

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#MEAwareness: Guest Post on Life with ME

Posted on June 20, 2018 by dSavannah

dSavannah note: You may have noticed I haven’t published anything since May 12, #MEAwareness / #MillionsMissing Day. All of that advocacy wore me slap out (and I don’t think I’ve recovered yet). A friend in one of my MEcfs support … Continue reading →

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#MEAwareness – and here’s what I’m missing

Posted on May 12, 2018 by dSavannah

So, I’ve written about my chronic illnesses a lot. I even spent the entire last #AtoZChallenge (2016) writing about it, under the theme “dSavannah Defects” (aka things that are wrong with me), a category I’ve continued to use because, well, … Continue reading →

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#MEAwareness: What a Crash looks like

Posted on May 10, 2018 by dSavannah

On November 30, 2017, my husband took me to a Continuing Education event, hosted by the CDC and #MEAction, to view the documentary Unrest, an unflinching, real, true, up-close-and-personal look at chronic illness, specifically myalgic encephalomyelitis, commonly (and erroneously) (and … Continue reading →

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#MEAwareness: Let’s talk about funding

Posted on May 9, 2018 by dSavannah

dSavannah note: If you follow me at all on social media, you’ll see that I am frantically tweeting and posting a BUNCH of articles & whatnot this week for #MEAwareness Month, and for the #MillionsMissing events that will be held … Continue reading →

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