Please help us to support people with ME and their families.

ME (Myalgic Encephalopathy), or Chronic Fatigue Syndrome, blights the lives of 250,000 people in UK today. The smallest exertion can floor them; their joints and muscles ache unbearably; restful sleep eludes them; and ‘brain fog’ clouds their thinking. It changes lives drastically – disrupting study; making work sometimes impossible; and straining family relations to breaking point. There is no known cure.

Kellie is fundraising to raise awareness and help raise funds for this charity due to her personal connection with ME.

Kellies story:

“I had been struggling with many things, mainly with recurrent illnesses and fatigue but there’s were some other issues in the mix too. After much investigation and many MANY blood tests in August 2024 I was diagnosed with M.E.

Myalgic encephalomyelitis or chronic fatigue syndrome (ME/CFS)

My journey with long covid started in 2022 and has since been a pain in my ass! However last year things shifted. Things got worse and I saw my health deteriorating.

My existing long covid symptoms had worsened along with some other things like:

I was feeling extremely tired all the time, which makes doing every day things difficult - super annoying.

I have numbness in areas of my body (mainly my foot) and no one could tell me why. They even suspected a stroke at one point.

I was experiencing so much joint pain and it had been taking me a long time to get over illnesses

Oh and sleep?

sometimes i have insomnia or I actually sleep too much and even when I have had a ‘good nights sleep’ I feel like I’ve not slept and wake up feeling exhausted and my joints hurt. Yeh fun.

I will not let this define me. I will do what I usually do and whilst I figure this out I want to make people aware of it because it’s crap. It’s not me “being lazy” or taking on “too much for me to handle”

I’m currently in the biggest part of my career so far and this will not take me away from that!

Changes will be happening

Tears will be shed

But I will continue and I will grow with this.