People with ME featured on TV programmes

Sly Saint

Sly Saint

Senior Member (Voting Rights)
Countryfile (last night).
Inclusive farming.
Matt Baker rolls up his sleeves to help out on a remarkable smallholding in Bedfordshire. Farmer Mike Duxbury lost his sight at the age of six due to glaucoma, but that didn’t stop him from achieving his dream to farm. Touch and sound enable him to navigate the farm and take on anything that needs doing, from checking livestock to wielding power tools to build animal enclosures. And Mike is determined to inspire young people with disabilities to get into agriculture by running practical courses.
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about 3/4s through the prog, a young woman with ME is featured (using a motorised wheelchair).
https://www.bbc.co.uk/iplayer/episode/m001fqgg/countryfile-inclusive-farming
 
Location, Location, Location
8pm, Channel 4

Kirstie Allsopp and Phil Spencer are in Edinburgh helping house-hunters who want to be in the capital’s most popular enclaves. Kirstie is with Northern Irishman Rob and his Mexican wife Maria, who want out of their noisy rented tenement flat. Phil is with James and Lesley, the latter of whom is living with ME – or chronic fatigue syndrome – which has affected their search.
 
Sly Saint said:
Location, Location, Location
8pm, Channel 4

Kirstie Allsopp and Phil Spencer are in Edinburgh helping house-hunters who want to be in the capital’s most popular enclaves. Kirstie is with Northern Irishman Rob and his Mexican wife Maria, who want out of their noisy rented tenement flat. Phil is with James and Lesley, the latter of whom is living with ME – or chronic fatigue syndrome – which has affected their search.
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Watch a recording online (if in the UK):
https://www.channel4.com/programmes/location-location-location/on-demand/75609-003
 
Dolphin said:
Watch a recording online (if in the UK):
https://www.channel4.com/programmes/location-location-location/on-demand/75609-003
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From ME Association Facebook:


Thank you for sharing this. I'm the person in the episode I talked at length about how ME affects me, but unfortunately none of it was included. For me it's like the flu and a hangover combined, but sadly they only used one soundbite where I mentioned fatigue which is disappointing.

Since we moved I've been really unwell. If anyone has any tips on how to manage things in a new home I'd be delighted to hear it


I should also say a massive thank you to the ME Association. You've been a big support since I got diagnosed and the research you publish gives me hope that I might one day recover.
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I haven't watched Location for years, finding KA increasingly irritating. I did watch this episode and agree with her that it was a pity they only allowed her to mention fatigue. Sad to hear she's crashed badly since moving. I did the same with our last move.
 
Trish said:
I haven't watched Location for years, finding KA increasingly irritating. I did watch this episode and agree with her that it was a pity they only allowed her to mention fatigue. Sad to hear she's crashed badly since moving. I did the same with our last move.
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It's usually enough to put me off even going on holiday with my family, moving sounds like a nightmare. All those little routines a lot of which you don't realize you have get disrupted. Waking up groggy and trying to make breakfast not finding your stuff at first. When they were renovating the house here earlier this year 't was a nightmare finding anything with everything in boxes or otherwise displaced.
 
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