Should have gone to…….
Should have gone to Specsavers………
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Pain and suffering are my life at the moment
Oh goodness! Pain and suffering are my life at the moment. I know it seems like everything is going right but my ME Monster is thrashing me about, making me suffer with crippling agony, exhaustion that is stopping me from conversing in the mornings. I know this is just a blip but please never underestimate
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Holding on to Hope
I try my hardest always to hang onto hope, whatever the circumstance is. The only way I can carry on is to believe in a better day, and when all seems dark, I look to the stars of the night. In my mind I can be anything, despite having a body that doesn’t work.
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Medway Messenger News “ME sufferer Jessica Taylor, from Cliffe Woods, determined to walk down aisle at wedding”
Jessica Taylor has spent most of the last 11 years in her bedroom, suffering from a debilitating illness – but has now revealed she is getting married. The 25-year-old is working hard with her physiotherapist as she’s determined to walk down the aisle on her big day. Jessica, who runs the Share A Star charity,
Grieving for the losses and celebrating the gains
I thought today, I would talk about a subject that is rather debatable and affects everybody separately but here goes, grieving for the losses and celebrating the gains. When I was 15, I lost everything to the serious condition ME. No one knew what to do or what was happening. In that time, I learnt
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Looking Back
Sometimes it’s strange looking back at how time has just passed us by. It can be scary, all too many times I felt this, it can feel like you are stuck with no escape…. BUT…It can be positive…. This date last year….I was in hospital having suffered a two hour seizure, narrowly missing being put
Bringing back the sparkle
A Rochester woman with severe M.E. has brought hope, support and comfort to over 500 young people. Jessica Taylor, who is chronically ill with severe M.E., set up Share a Star in October 2010 to bring the sparkle back into the lives of severely unwell children and teenagers. Since starting the charity, Jessica has helped
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Walk with the family
Well, well, well…. I am so sorry it has been so long since my last post, I have been doing the whole ‘getting better’ bit from my recent hospital journey. That was no fun! A few days ago I got to do something fun, breathe the cool fresh air, and lie in my wheelchair. No
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Military operation
Momentous occasion. Yesterday I gave a speech to over 2000 people about Share a Star, our project Oakley’s Outings and my experience at school. This was the FIRST time out of the house in TEN YEARS and was a military operation. Do check it out but it shows that slowly, despite my setbacks, I
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