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Dr. Diana, both a doctor (therapeutic optometrist), and a recovered POTS and ME/CFS patient, offers help and hope for POTS, Dysautonomia, Ehlers-Danlos syndrome, Chronic Fatigue, Chronic Lyme, vascular abnormalities, Fibromyalgia, and Multiple Sclerosis. Dr. Diana is now working full time at POTS Care.

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Reply To: "Free ME" poetry

NEW STUDY! Parasym Plus™ for Multiple Sclerosis › Forums › PrettyIll.com Discussion › Spoonie Art Contest! › "Free ME" poetry › Reply To: "Free ME" poetry

September 27, 2013 at 6:38 pm #4439
allyb
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Barbara sometimes we need something solid/tangible to anchor our dreams in reality. I so nearly didn’t add the Boots poem as I thought it was just me being silly. Thank you for you kind words and sharing your story.

In-fact I really very nearly didn’t enter any of them but I had a gentle push from a certain Doctor. I will let you into a secret…. I also wrote the poem for Sever ME Day (below) that you may have read on the Facebook page. I don’t mind anyone on here knowing I use an alias FB.

I wake up from a nightmare, to find reality is worse.

I am riddled with this illness, like some medieval curse.

Yet I’m certain it was yesterday that I was full of vigour?

And my mind slips into overdrive, this mystery to figure.

The truth as a companion sings a deathly serenade,

Again, I find I’m all alone in darkness and afraid.

If only I was free to rise and I could just take fight,

But I’m fastened to this illness like I’m shackled to the night.

The irony; if I could run, is that I would be well

I would not have the need to flee and break the chains of hell.

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