Life in the Void

Whitney Dafoe

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Life in the Void

Living with ME/CFS and Long Covid and other Chronic Illness or Disability. Follow me while I explore the challenges, the suffering, the darkness and the light while living with a chronic illness or disability. Along the way I will share insights into how I survive, how I struggle, and how I STAY ALIVE. ❤️

1 DAY AGO

My 41st Birthday Fundraiser for Ronald W. Davis PhD's ME/CFS Research!

Hi everyone, I’m doing another fundraiser for Ronald W. Davis PhD.’s ME/CFS research for my 41st birthday! http://spot.fund/FindACureForMEcfs…Since 2020 we have raised $184,000 for Ron’s research solely from my birthday fundraisers! This is incredible and only possible because of all of you…Let’s all come together and get Ron the supplies he needs to do these critical experiments that are honing in closer and closer to the root cause of ME/CFS!✏️ My ME/CFS Blog ❓What is ME/CFS? 👤 My Story 📄 M...

3 min
OCT 8

ME/CFS Olympics

It says a lot about the unique and widely misunderstood challenges that ME/CFS and Long Covid patients face that there could not be an ME/CFS Olympics. Because if we tried to compete and push the physical limits of our bodies like that, all the winners would simply be dead…✏️ My ME/CFS Blog ❓What is ME/CFS? 👤 My Story 📄 ME/CFS Resources 🙏 Donate to ME/CFS Research

8 min
SEP 19

The Two Worlds Of Chronic Illness

No one ever sees the world of color that lives inside of me because the black void doesn’t let it out. I feel it, smell it, taste it. I exist there in every moment of my life. But the only thing anyone ever sees are the bits of dust of a broken down machine…When the world of color and light shines, this second world coughs and flounders and lays down a blanket of death…✏️ My ME/CFS Blog ❓What is ME/CFS? 👤 My Story 📄 ME/CFS Resources 🙏 Donate to ME/CFS Research

3 min
SEP 10

Riding on Hope

Getting through bad days with ME/CFS, Long Covid, chronic illness, or disability. ✏️ My ME/CFS Blog ❓What is ME/CFS? 👤 My Story 📄 ME/CFS Resources 🙏 Donate to ME/CFS Research

23 sec
AUG 17

Dear NHS, Don't Kill Karen Gordon

A Severe ME/CFS Patient in the UK named Karen Gordon went to the Conquest Hospital Hastings when her Jtube broke in hopes of getting a new one installed. Instead, the hospital has refused to give her a new Jtube or let her go home with Total Parenteral Nutrition (TPN), holding her hostage at the hospital for months. They have now given her an ultimatum that she must decide within 48 hours between being sent 100 miles to the St Mark’s Hospital in London to be re assessed for GI issues by Docto...

12 min
AUG 8

Drops From The Well of Suffering: Honoring Maeve Boothby O’Neill

It is a travesty that Maeve did not receive nutrition like I received. I was just as sick as Maeve with very similar symptoms, including sensitivity to stimuli like light, sounds, voices and the company of other people in my room and like Maeve, I could not eat enough food to survive. If I was treated the way Maeve was treated, I would be dead just like Maeve. Luckily, I had doctors who viewed ME/CFS as the serious physiological disease that it is, and who understood that th...

17 min
JUL 8

Homelessness Is Not a Crime!

Not having a home is not a crime! Yet after the Supreme court ruled that it was constitutional to make it illegal to sleep in public spaces, countless towns and cities are sure to follow suit in the United States and make it illegal to sleep in public spaces. (Illegal to sleep!). Sleep is a basic necessity and if you don’t have a home, you have no choice but to sleep in a public space. Beyond the morals or ethics of this it has far reaching consequences for #MECFS and #LongC...

11 min
MAY 12

I Still Feel Free

I haven’t felt the wind on my back in 11 years. But I still feel free…We are not our circumstances. This physical world does not define us nor can it confine us. We are infinite beings…This year on ME/CFS awareness day, let’s acknowledge what ME/CFS has taken from us, But let’s also look around at the life we still have…✏️ My ME/CFS Blog ❓What is ME/CFS? 👤 My Story 📄 ME/CFS Resources 🙏 Donate to ME/CFS Research

3 min
MAY 9

ME/CFS Anthem

An anthem for ME/CFS and Long Covid patients leading up to ME/CFS Awareness Day. YOU ARE NOT ALONE. This song is a beautiful testament to our connectedness no matter our physical isolation.-> Listen to the song here -✏️ My ME/CFS Blog ❓What is ME/CFS? 👤 My Story 📄 ME/CFS Resources 🙏 Donate to ME/CFS Research

1 min
APR 23

When Does Self Care Become Harmful?

I’m desperate to feel better. I would do anything to feel better and I spend an enormous amount of energy following routines and taking medications and supplements to try to get better. This desperation to get better is something we all face. We’re willing to try anything that we know doesn’t harm us like GET to get better. But at what point does the energy we put into these treatments hurt us more than they benefit us? ✏️ My ME/CFS Blog ❓What is ME/CFS? 👤 My Sto...

7 min
APR 4

We Are Not Defined by their Prejudice

Laziness is not the opposite of being sick. How have we come to this place where if we show any lack of productivity we are terrified of being labelled "lazy" and therefore not legitimately sick? …how do we start to re-frame the prejudice against us?✏️ My ME/CFS Blog ❓What is ME/CFS? 👤 My Story 📄 ME/CFS Resources 🙏 Donate to ME/CFS Research

7 min
APR 4

ME/CFS / Long Covid is an Ever Changing Journey

ME/CFS / Long Covid is an ever changing journey and we never know where it will take us. We can do the best we can and no more; After that, we must try to find as much life along the way as possible, knowing that it is fleeting like all else; It slips through our fingers the moment we try to hold onto it. But as it slips through our fingers we don’t need to despair because we know we will find new life around the next bend. There is always new life, nothing ever stays the same. Not our weakes...

3 min

12 Episodes

Living with ME/CFS and Long Covid and other Chronic Illness or Disability. Follow me while I explore the challenges, the suffering, the darkness and the light while living with a chronic illness or disability. Along the way I will share insights into how I survive, how I struggle, and how I STAY ALIVE. ❤️

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Whitney Dafoe
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Life in the Void