Reader answers New Zealand man's plea

In answer to Paul Seville of New Zealand, I hope this helps: Use your computer’s search engine for tons of information about CFIDS/ME (chronic fatigue immune dysfunction syndrome/ myalgic encheemylitis). Remember that this complication is medically categorized as one of several “postviral conditions.”

TB is a viral condition, so what’s the problem?

Here in the U.S of A., the Centers for Disease Control (CDC) has an informative link for physicians, family members and victims of this condition.

I was granted disability immediately upon the correspondence of my doctor, an infectious disease specialist at the University of Michigan and my personal testimony that, prior to my infection, I was employed as construction operations manager responsible for three states. After I got out of the hospital, within three weeks, I allowed a load of laundry to mildew as I was unable during that time period to move the clothes to the dryer!

Please note the root of the medical term is “encephe” as in encephalitis. If I were a horse, I would have been euthanized mercifully. Instead I must live with this horrid condition and no medical insurance to even mercifully abate the symptoms which become aggravated, in my case, to distal neuropathy as well as fbromyalgia—unremitting pain!

Best of luck! You, too, are in my prayers!

—Mary Nichols

This is part of the September 10, 2008 online edition of Frost Illustrated.

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