Fibromyalgia and Chronic Fatigue

Maybe this is what my blog should have been about all along.

I have Chronic Fatigue Syndrome -- which sounds like so much bullshit (Chronic Fatigue!!  If the medical community took it seriously they never would have called it such a wimpy, accusing name).

I was first dianosed with Chronic Fatigue in 1989 -- when it was called Epstein Barr Virus (wish it still was).  However, they discovered that people can have high EPV titers but not have the disease so they changed it to the insulting "Chronic Fatigue."

I was so scared.  I have this flu that never went away.  I would rest all week long and then go back to work and the last time I literally crawled out -- on my hands and knees <<embarrassing>> -- to the elevator. 

I was working at Paramount Pictures in International Marketing for Features at the time.

I had a great boss, the VP, and an abusive senior publicist.  John R was awful -- and awful to me.  He just hated me ...

Not sure why.  I think he was just miserable himself ...

John R was NOT good enough to be a cat.

I was in an abusive romantic relationship with K, was abusing alcohol and was abused by John at work.  I had no respite.

So my body took over and collapsed.  It was all too much.

This is just a brief intro to CFS.  I will write more when I can AND include Fibromyalgia.