With this new discovery of the possible connection between the XMRV retrovirus and Chronic Fatigue and Immune Dysfunction Syndrome (CFIDS), I am struck by the magnitude of the desperation for a biological explanation in the CFIDS community. All of us with CFIDS are so excited. But it’s a retrovirus! Like HIV! And we don’t know how it is transmitted. And…
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Endurance
I have a picture of me leaning off the edge of a cliff wearing a red-striped harness strapped over my gray track pants. In my gloved hands—right hand in front of me, left hand behind—I grip a rope. I am smiling gamely, because I am with friends, but I have made no bones about the fact that I am scared…