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Solve CFS, You Tube Channel by Kerry K. Patient Expert Posted in: Blog Posts in Parenting  Solve CFS, You Tube channel, has excellent and powerful videos of the realities of this debilitating illness.  Currently videos of Mondays XMRV/CFS webinar with Dr. Batem ... Read on »
XMRV/CFS Webinar-lots of good stuff by Kerry K. Patient Expert Posted in: Blog Posts in Parenting Monday morning, I took part in the XMRV-CFS Webinar with Dr. Lucinda Bateman as the speaker.  Literally I took part…because with this CFS cognitively affected brain of min ... Read on »
Compression by Kerry K. Patient Expert Posted in: Blog Posts in Parenting I am on “wipe out” and have spent the week compressing the sofa cushions. Don’t have enough cognitive energy to string words together comprehensively, so will share Shel S ... Read on »
Dr. Lucinda Bateman on the XMRV Virus- Webinar Jan 18th by Kerry K. Patient Expert Posted in: Blog Posts in Parenting I am incredibly grateful to be in the care of one of the top CFS doctors in the world, Dr. Lucinda Bateman. The CFIDS Association of America is putting on a Webinar in whi ... Read on »
“Yocadita!” by Kerry K. Patient Expert Posted in: Blog Posts in Parenting “Yocadita” is an acronym I just made up. It stands for the part of me that incessantly yells, “You can do it anyway!” My “yocadita” has been good to me. She has enrich ... Read on »
From Holidays to “Normal” Days by Kerry K. Patient Expert Posted in: Blog Posts in Parenting This morning our routine resumed, alarm clocks rang, water pipes creaked, the coffee pot gargled, rice krispies snapped, crackled and popped.  My husband,  youngest daught ... Read on »
Glitter Snowflakes by Kerry K. Patient Expert Posted in: Blog Posts in Parenting Sometimes I think I should have named her Noel or Holly, this daughter of mine who loves Christmas.  We first discovered her Christmas passion when she was just shy of two a ... Read on »
Snow/ XRMV by Kerry K. Patient Expert Posted in: Blog Posts in Parenting Good morning.  It’s snowing here…hushed, white and beautiful. Earlier this morning, after a weekend off the computer, I checked my email and read the latest XRMV viru ... Read on »
Home by Kerry K. Patient Expert Posted in: Blog Posts in Parenting Yesterday morning I woke filled with worries.  I did what I often do to help me let go…to find calm within this life that can hold more than our tiny human shoulders can car ... Read on »
Hair Cut Day! by Kerry K. Patient Expert Posted in: Blog Posts in Parenting Yeah,  today I’m getting my haircut.   What a challenge it has been to keep my hair looking decent and not dowdy since I’ve become challenged with ME/CFS, MCS and a related ... Read on »
Tight Jeans? Baggy Jeans? And Chronic Illness by Kerry K. Patient Expert Posted in: Blog Posts in Parenting Lately, I’m forgoing the jeans and choosing my tie at the waist sweatpants. Those of you with chronic illnesses can you relate? Has your weight been effected by your illness ... Read on »
Avatars? Help anyone… by Kerry K. Patient Expert Posted in: Blog Posts in Parenting Hi, this new template includes space for avatars (our personal pic or image next to each of our comments). I can’t figure out how to set my own avatar let alone share with ... Read on »
A fox walked by by Kerry K. Patient Expert Posted in: Blog Posts in Parenting A fox just walked by, a red fox with her plush tail and triangle ears, like the one who visited our campsite this past summer. We took pictures of her because we hadn’t see ... Read on »
Personal Default Setting by Kerry K. Patient Expert Posted in: Blog Posts in Parenting Just thinkin this morning as I’m crocheting, that crocheting is my personal Default Setting. When I have to surrender to the sofa, recliner, bed unable to “do” for awhile. ... Read on »
Face Lift by Kerry K. Patient Expert Posted in: Blog Posts in Parenting Face lift and an overhaul….I could use both…but its my blog that is undergoing them.   This will take a little while–to finish its new look and get it working complete with ... Read on »
Eeyore Awareness by Kerry K. Patient Expert Posted in: Blog Posts in Parenting I’ve been thinkin’ a lot about Eeyore lately…how often in the real world the Eeyore in us or others,  is judged or left out and often treated like a downpour of rain arrivin ... Read on »
“Not Very How”–Eeyore by Kerry K. Patient Expert Posted in: Blog Posts in Parenting All Flared up Feelin’ kinda blue? Hope gloomy Eeyore Gives you a giggle too. ————————————————– “Good morning, Eeyore,” said Pooh. “Good morning, Pooh Bear, ... Read on »
Silence by Kerry K. Patient Expert Posted in: Blog Posts in Parenting Silence Lying here Still Silence swaddled The moment Swells Silence births An Internal Universe by,  Kerry Ryan-Kuhn Read on »
Proof Equals Compassion–CFS/FMS by Kerry K. Patient Expert Posted in: Blog Posts in Parenting After the release in Science Magazine two weeks ago of research finding a virus strongly linked to CFS (see post below), then today finding on my MSN home page, an article p ... Read on »
Research Finds Strong Link to Virus as Cause of CFS! by Kerry K. Patient Expert Posted in: Blog Posts in Parenting Article inSciencemagazine, reports the news those of us with ME/CFS have been waiting for. A strong link to a virus (similar to HIV) has been found as a probable (but not ye ... Read on »