Blog: The Whole Damn Chronic Situation: "FINALLY WRITING ABOUT M.E. - NEW BOOK."

The blog has a link to the part of the book introducing the character with ME, which I have read.

I thought the character's experience of being housebound was described well and sympathetically. I find it hard to imagine how the character's life is going to change or how anything very interesting is going to happen or how she is going to have any interaction with the other characters of the book. But the initial description was written well enough that I am interested to find out.

 

I read some of it and skimmed the rest. I agree it does give a flavour of living with ME. Given that the writer says she has now recovered from ME, it's possible the character will recover too - I wonder what she will attribute the recovery to - she doesn't suggest any reasons for her recovery in the blog post, as far as I recall.

I had similar problems with the phrase 'doing allergy'. I have hazy memories of LP including telling people to say they are 'doing ME' (or CFS) as a prelude to telling them that it was in their control to stop 'doing ME', as if it were a conscious choice.

Also, as Barry says, it's very common to hear people say they are 'allergic to' something they don't like. I have been known to say I'm allergic to radio phone in programs, high heeled shoes and chamomile tea because I don't like listening to, wearing or smelling them respectively. My 'doing allergy' is because I can't 'do', not because I don't want to.