Life in the Void

This is a poem about living with ME/CFS and the void of any kind of feeling that can strike us during sick days/worse periods and how absolutely devastating and dehuhumanizing it can feel. 💙 ✏️ My ME/CFS Blog ❓What is ME/CFS? 👤 My Story 📄 ME/CFS Resources 🙏 Donate to ME/CFS Research 🖼️ My Print Store

I explore the gap in compassion between ME/CFS deaths and sufering and the suffering and death of other people whom the world rallies around, fights for, and supports. ✏️ My ME/CFS Blog ❓What is ME/CFS? 👤 My Story 📄 ME/CFS Resources 🙏 Donate to ME/CFS Research 🖼️ My Print Store

A video exploration of the impossible decisions ME/CFS patients have to make, constantly having to decide between two options that will both make our health worse. And how much more difficult these decisions get when they involve non ME/CFS medical needs. As well as thoughts on how to process these decisions… ✏️ My ME/CFS Blog ❓What is ME/CFS? 👤 My Story 📄 ME/CFS Resources 🙏 Donate to ME/CFS Research 🖼️ My Print Store

…even when ME/CFS starts taking from your mind, you think there’s some limit - something that’s yours, that is sacred and defines you in some way, or is just you in some core way that nothing, including ME/CFS can touch. But there isn’t. ME/CFS keeps going and will keep taking… ✏️ My ME/CFS Blog ❓What is ME/CFS? 👤 My Story 📄 ME/CFS Resources 🙏 Donate to ME/CFS Research 🖼️ My Print Store

Imagining but never doing Dreaming but never experiencing Longing but never feeling Seeing but never touching Believing but never receiving Envisioning but never achieving Driven but never accomplishing Loving but always being alone. The experience of living with ME/CFS. —————— 💙 Whitney ✏️ My ME/CFS Blog ❓What is ME/CFS? 👤 My Story 📄 ME/CFS Resources 🙏 Donate to ME/CFS Research 🖼️ My Print Store