It was with great delight I found out today that the Ontario Government and the OMA have finally recognised ME/Chronic Fatigue Syndrome as an official illness. I am so happy I almost can't contain myself. Ok well actually I can... but it is a huge difference. Click the title link for a page from ME/FM Action about this news.
So, Dr. Michael K.D. Fan, Dr. Jaciw and others, shove it right up your know-it-all overeducated ass - you can't "not believe" in my illness any more you self-righteous pricks. Look up OHIP Diagnostic Code number 795, you fucknuts. Put that in your bong and smoke it.
I am so happy that the work of my former physician Dr. Jeff Sherkey, who died of a brain tumour a while back, did not go for naught. Dr. Sherkey also had ME/CFS like I do. He tried to help me, and he was always a sympathetic ear, as busy as he was and plagued by the ravages of the same illness I have. He persisted in the face of idiotic other medicos and tried to give help. Apparently at least a third to a half of his patients improved. I was not largely improved but for a while I did have appropriate medication - which I have no longer and therefore am much worse. Anyway, his main goal was to see that the medical authorities recognized and had a diagnostic criteria for ME/CFS, and although he did not live to see it that finally has been achieved.
What does this mean? Well, first of all it means I MIGHT find a doctor who understands the condition and will try and help because he will now be provided information from the OMA and the Government about it. It means that next year when my disability is reviewed my illness will be listed and there will be little doubt about the EXISTENCE of my illness and no one will have to call it Fibromyalgia. It means that someone could actually do some real research into the illness and find some help and maybe just maybe someday I can get better and have MY LIFE BACK!
