Holiday Season ME/CFS – Phoenix Rising

December 6, 2020 Jody Smith

Holiday Season ME/CFS Style — With a COVID Twist

By Jody Smith I have a bad history with late November and the month of December, ever since I first got ME/CFS 28 years ago. Some of that has to do with the shorter daylight hours in my hemisphere, but a lot of it is wrapped up with the encroaching Holiday Season. December plays host to a multitude of holidays,

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Woman standing surrounded by ethereal falling stars.

November 29, 2018 Jody Smith

Our Newly Ill Face Their First Holiday Season with ME/CFS

by Jody Smith Don’t look now! The holiday season is on its way. I’ve lived through decades of them with ME/CFS. So have many of you in our chronically ill community. That’s beyond sad for all of us. But at least we have some idea what we’re contending with, and have learned our ways of handling it … or not.

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