Steve from England

I cannot say about the condition, only how it affects me.  I am sure there are tons of variations depending on the individual who suffers from it. So, for me. Well, I didn't just suddenly get it. Even a diagnosis takes many months. I have known I got excessively tired for a couple of years or so. It's been getting worse though. Now, my first scary moment was in the gym early in 2017. I could go back and forth to the gym with weeks in between and just about pick up where I left off. I'd do half hour on the treadmill at a fair pace then move on around the weights. I set up the treadmill for half hour, usual pace and then, at 7 minutes in my energy just left me, everything wobbled and coordination went so I pressed the red stop button. I went home and went to bed totally shattered. I presumed it might be a sleeping condition so went for all sort of checks but it wasn't that. These things take months to check out. I went for countless blood checks too testing for anything w...

Yes, 55 already and I really can remember being just 5 years old ever so clearly. Mum played this trick on us, she convinced us that somehow she could see from the kitchen into the front room. I spent an age examine the wall trying to work out just how she did it. I knew my nan had an old gas pipe between her rooms we could look through but we didn't have it in our house. Mum somehow convinced me it was magic paper on the wall that only adults could see which she looked behind. Anyway, I was 5, it's a lovely memory and half a century ago. I can still feel that happiness seeing mum smiling, laughing at my gullibility. I believe my Dad retired at about my age, boy how I would like to be able to do that now. I enjoy work on the whole but, all the same, the freedom to do whatever I want is also appealing. This year I likely won't get a vacation. Dennis wants the money to go see the family back home and, it feels wrong to deny him but, even so, I could do with a good hol...