CFS Me Awareness Day T-Shirt

Virginia McGowan

CFS Me Awareness Day

A little bit of Advertising for the Chronic Fatigue Syndrome Myalgia Encephaliis Fibro Myalgia People

I am submitting this into something to say group ,I think it says it well.

Passion Group; I am passionate this message gets to the people and medical profession around the world for understanding and compassion, Please remember,the next sufferer could be YOU or one of you family. It CAN be an inherited condition.It is NOT contagious. It can happen overnight or it can sneek up silently over a few weeks.

CFS Me Awareness Day belongs to the following groups:

Artists with Disabilities, Safe Haven, Something To Say and The Patchwork Available for sale as

T-Shirts

  • Wendy  Slee

    Wendy Slee

    How well I know this one… :-(
    great idea.and design….
    (you too huh?)

  • Virginia McGowan replied

    Thanks Wendy, Estelle O’Brien too. [KIrrily and angelmel here also [have just about recovered :-) ]

  • pat oubridge

    pat oubridge

    I have a good friend too who suffers, wonderful tee ginny

  • Virginia McGowan

    Virginia McGowan

    thanks Pat ,I must,, I should, I WILL go to bed! ;-)

  • sword

    sword

    A friend or ours was diagnosed with fibro myalgia several years ago.She has since learned who her true friends are.Good on you for bringing this terrible condition to peoples attention

  • Virginia McGowan replied

    thanks Peter those like you are rare to find . Most like me, find it so much easier to just withdraw from life, saves so much discussion, it’s just so hard to explain, especially when even a phone conversation can send most of us to bed to rest for days.

  • cheetaah

    cheetaah

    what a lovely Shirt, great dedication.

  • Virginia McGowan replied

    thanks for commenting cheetaah. I don’t expect this as a seller, just a tee and it helps to exersise my brain [hrr pphhppph no u-nice comments please] hahaha ]

  • George Lenz

    George Lenz

    nice t

  • Virginia McGowan replied

    thanks George

  • Estelle O'Brien

    Estelle O'Brien

    Thanks so much Gini for this wonderful attention getter. Those of us who suffer from CFS/ME are so misunderstood … public awareness can only help. When I woke up this morning I could hardly move!!! but I’m a bit better now… xx :)

  • Virginia McGowan replied

    thanks Estelle, ((()))

  • kirrily

    kirrily

    Well done! I must get onto getting some things together for this too (was hoping to get the book done… !) – where has this year gone eh?!

  • Virginia McGowan replied

    oh thanks Kirrily, gee this is so much fun! tee shirts I mean hehehe,

  • wolfman

    wolfman

    nice tee ginny.

  • Virginia McGowan replied

    thanks wM

  • BLYTHART

    BLYTHART

    There are so many medical conditions that aren’t understood by the general public, simply because no-one is aware of them. You are doing great work here.

  • Virginia McGowan replied

    thanks Dave, it’s very nice to have Redbubble to put this up, this time last year I was contemplating doing one by hand.Soooo much easier to do a compter one.
    Not only not aware, but amazingly almost everybody thinks It won’t happen to me! This happened to me in just a few minutes 15 years ago,a small Sunday afternoon nap, I woke up an hour later and I couldn’t get off the bed felt like a truck had run over me. [I and 40.000 in Oz )

  • BLYTHART

    BLYTHART

    Our daughter has Asperger’s Syndrome and this is only recently becoming recognised, so I hope ME and CFS soon enter public awareness too.

  • Johdie Fairweather

    Johdie Fairwea...

    I wasn’t aware there was an awareness day. Thanks for bringing it to my attention. It’s becoming such a common diagnosis of course there’d have to be a day for it. Interesting that you mentioned people thinking it wouldn’t happen to them. My experience was different. I heard the same thing over and over.. more times than I could believe;
    “Chronic fatigue huh? Yeah I reckon I’ve got that.”
    If only they knew it’s far more devastating than being a bit tired.

  • Virginia McGowan replied

    thanks for commenting Johdie I was only thinking a second ago,why am on on redbubble! sitting here drooping all over the keyboard! it’s my afternoon “rest” time,.

  • artlein

    artlein

    Excellent ginnymac…...........from one who knows!

  • Virginia McGowan replied

    oh its’ a real @@##$% So sorry artlien deepest sympathy I wouldn’t wish it on anybody!Everytime I meet a new victim I get so teary.

    today/this week,actually , the bp tabs I am on are,so strong [ one side effect for me ] so I am a wipe out,.trying hard to comment! amazing how many artists here are sufferers.

  • Rhonda Barrett

    Rhonda Barrett

    Great shirt! I am thinking of also designing a shirt for Fibromyalgia since I have been a sufferer of this for 5 yrs.Thanks for the inspiration!

  • Virginia McGowan replied

    ooh so sorry for you Rhonda my doc says I have it as well. his wife and doc collegue have it too ruined their lives.runs in families and is dormant until something traumatic happens…. the pain [mine] comes and goes,a bit like CFS or ME somedays not too bad.then I think I was imagining it all. I put the shirt up on the support website [in Aus] and they have it in their newsletter. also the I’m notcrazy forum is a great help here.although it’s very quiet these days we have a few members from USA.but it’s ‘nice’ to know we aren’t alone like we are made to feel !

  • Luci Mahon

    Luci Mahon

    Great idea for a tee Ginny! I have ME, so I’ll definitely be supporting this cause on May 12.

  • Virginia McGowan replied

    aww gee sooooorrry It’s a ##$%% ...wouldn’t wish it on anyone so frustrating atm I have a really bad cold/fluey thing too, not often I get ordinary things.Eyes are watering a lot .not easy to see the keyboard Enivea here is a sufferer too also Kirrily,[we met on a forum I’m Not Crazy …. and lots of others I have met. as you can see.

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