Sky News: ME Awareness Week: 'I have had to give up everything my previous life had to offer'

[Andy]

Mainly good but has some less good. Bolding mine.

Seventeen-year-old Ellie Percival-Mann's dreams of pursuing a degree in medicine have been hampered by myalgic encepahalomylitis (ME), a brutal yet often unseen illness affecting 250,000 people in the UK. Here, she writes about the impact it has had on her life.

Where I live in Leicestershire, there are no specialist healthcare services for ME/CFS at all. I feel like I'm in limbo.

Before I came into hospital, I was planning to have some hydrotherapy to help me get my strength back up, though I have to pay for this privately, because my GP refused to refer me for physiotherapy.

Some people think ME/CFS is entirely psychological, including some doctors, but we have research that shows that this is not the case at all.

When I can, I study at home, an Open University course (equivalent to A-levels), so that as things improve, I'll be ready to move forward with my life.

https://news.sky.com/story/me-aware...ything-my-previous-life-had-to-offer-11363906