Why?

6 years ago I was diagnosed with the most annoying of things... An invisible illness. It turned my life upside down and I went from being a very sporty young man to being a hermit living in a man cave. It made me lose a lot of my friends, put on a lot of weight and it was hard... but it wasn't my end. 

I now have a fantastic job working with kids, a loving wife and depending on when you read this a baby on the way, or a real life baby. I still have CFS/ME but I found a way of controlling it, not it controlling me. So I decided to push it, see how far I could control it and have decided to do a half marathon... 

My mum has not been so lucky, she has had  M.E. for the past 28 years and is unable to work which bring with it new problems. She does remarkably well to keep going, as do all those who have the same illness. 

Personally I doubted whether CFS/ME was real until I got it myself and it is a horrendous, life changing illness that needs so much more research! 

So lecture over, donate to the M.E association to help discover how to diagnose and treat it if you feel my journey warrants it, or the pain I will undoubtedly feel is worth it.

Chris

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