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 asT-Shirts

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
I have a good friend too who suffers, wonderful tee ginny
Virginia McGowan
thanks Pat ,I must,, I should, I WILL go to bed! ;-)
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
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
nice t
Virginia McGowan replied
thanks George
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
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
nice tee ginny.
Virginia McGowan replied
thanks wM
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
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 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
Excellent ginnymac…...........from one who knows!
Virginia McGowan replied
oh its’ a real @@##$% So sorry artlien deepest sympathy I wouldn’t wish it on anybody!Everytime I meet a new victim I get so teary.
today/this week,actually , the bp tabs I am on are,so strong [ one side effect for me ] so I am a wipe out,.trying hard to comment! amazing how many artists here are sufferers.
Rhonda Barrett
Great shirt! I am thinking of also designing a shirt for Fibromyalgia since I have been a sufferer of this for 5 yrs.Thanks for the inspiration!
Virginia McGowan replied
ooh so sorry for you Rhonda my doc says I have it as well. his wife and doc collegue have it too ruined their lives.runs in families and is dormant until something traumatic happens…. the pain [mine] comes and goes,a bit like CFS or ME somedays not too bad.then I think I was imagining it all. I put the shirt up on the support website [in Aus] and they have it in their newsletter. also the I’m notcrazy forum is a great help here.although it’s very quiet these days we have a few members from USA.but it’s ‘nice’ to know we aren’t alone like we are made to feel !
Luci Mahon
Great idea for a tee Ginny! I have ME, so I’ll definitely be supporting this cause on May 12.
Virginia McGowan replied
aww gee sooooorrry It’s a ##$%% ...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.