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  • Banarama123
    Banarama123 Online Community Member Posts: 73 Empowering
    https://forum.scope.org.uk/discussion/comment/927212#Comment_927212

    do you have ME

  • MW123
    MW123 Scope Member Posts: 1,382 Championing
    edited October 2024
    https://forum.scope.org.uk/discussion/comment/927248#Comment_927248

    I don’t have ME, but I experience chronic fatigue as a symptom of my chronic cancer. It’s a different condition than ME, but can significantly impact daily life.

  • Daffodil94
    Daffodil94 Online Community Member, Scope Member Posts: 55 Empowering

    Hi peeps, bear with as I’ve not had time to do a couple of extracts from la book. I did introduce my grandson to Harry Worth and he is also a fan of Monty Python - “He’s not Jesus, he’s just a naughty boy”. Mortimer and Whitehouse I love. Here’s a link to a few funny bits. https://youtu.be/CvgVwppgceI?si=KpPikgpmGBBklYsK
    Thanks for all the love. God bless you all.

  • Jimm_Alumni
    Jimm_Alumni Scope alumni Posts: 5,713 Championing
    https://forum.scope.org.uk/discussion/comment/927199#Comment_927199

    Do love a bit of Monty Python and Blackadder! I might add Black Books to the list

  • Daffodil94
    Daffodil94 Online Community Member, Scope Member Posts: 55 Empowering

    Putting on my Miranda Hart persona: "Black Books, that's terribly racist. Haven't we done away with things like that on here?" (Pause for correction from colleague) "Oh sorry, you meant the British sitcom created by Dylan Moran and Graham Linehan starring Bill Bailey and Tamsin Greig. Just off for a dance". Exits gracefully😂

    Miranda calls her readers "Much Loved Dear Reader Chums", so I'll do likewise if you don't mind. MLDRCs - here are some of the extracts from her new book "I haven't been entirely honest with you" that made me laugh or nod in agreement, as promised. Hope it helps you too.

    First let me clear up something. Miranda was diagnosed, after some 30 years, as suffering from Lyme disease. She got a tick bite in her teenage years. Yes, you're absolutely right that you can't be cured of this and no, she never suggests she was. What this book seems to me to be saying is that there is a life to be lived, despite your diagnosis. She does believe she has had healing in dealing with the emotional side of her diagnosis and that has freed her up to have a better life. She describes her diagnosis as "chronic" but not "acute".

    She also deals "heavily" (excuse the pun which will make sense in a minute - read on) with the contribution we make to our own illnesses if we act like a hippo. Here comes a "funny" bit. She talks about her inner "hippo" wallowing about in a muddy pool in the chapter on "Feeling, Grieving and Letting the Past Be the Past". She says that it was very easy to dwell in the past. She splashed and splashed in the mire of unbelief that things could not get better. Then she realised she had to be kind to herself and be patient, taking tiny steps. She allied this to the hippo inside her whom she says "didn't immediately start jumping about like a gazelle, jumping in fitness and back to work. But the hippo did float a bit more and did occasionally potter on the banks of the river". (You have to listen to it - it really is funny the way she says it.)

    She also goes on a date which turns into a rant about the state of her pizza when it is delivered - the mozarella being all pushed to one side. Typical Miranda. She even makes you laugh when she says it was a "Covid date" which meant they had to socially distance so there was no fear of an embarrassing lunge by either party in order to "have their first awkward close encounter". Clue - he does come back for another date.

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