{"id":317,"date":"2020-07-30T20:46:08","date_gmt":"2020-07-30T20:46:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/humansofchronicillness.org\/?p=317"},"modified":"2021-03-16T20:53:41","modified_gmt":"2021-03-16T20:53:41","slug":"cheryl-b","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/humansofchronicillness.org\/2020\/07\/cheryl-b\/","title":{"rendered":"Cheryl B."},"content":{"rendered":"<h2 style=\"text-align: center;\">Humans of ME\/CFS<\/h2>\n<p>CFS is an invisible disability. When you look at me, you won&#8217;t see my broken aerobic metabolism that has cost me my muscle strength, flexibility and endurance. You won&#8217;t see that taking a shower or preparing a simple meal causes me to exceed my anaerobic threshold, creating lactic acid build-up, exhaustion and pain. You won&#8217;t see how my sleep is disrupted every night, restless and unrefreshing. You won&#8217;t see the chronic and debilitating muscle and joint pain, headaches, sore throat. Or the intolerance to noise, bright lights, chemicals and foods that were easily tolerated before CFS. You won&#8217;t see my lost sense of productivity, accomplishment and contribution that I got from career that I loved and was so much of my identity. Or my lost sense of connection with others because socializing exceeds my energy limits. Or that I can no longer be counted on to help family or friends in need, or be an equal partner and companion to my husband. You can&#8217;t see my uncertainty about the future. You can&#8217;t see my heart yearning to live fully, while my body and brain deteriorate. But it&#8217;s real, and it&#8217;s my CFS story.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Humans of ME\/CFS CFS is an invisible disability. When you look at me, you won&#8217;t see my broken aerobic metabolism that has cost me my muscle strength, flexibility and endurance. You won&#8217;t see that taking a shower or preparing a simple meal causes me to exceed my anaerobic threshold, creating lactic acid build-up, exhaustion and [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":305,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"spay_email":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/humansofchronicillness.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/07\/cheryl_b.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/humansofchronicillness.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/317"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/humansofchronicillness.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/humansofchronicillness.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/humansofchronicillness.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/humansofchronicillness.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=317"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/humansofchronicillness.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/317\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/humansofchronicillness.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/305"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/humansofchronicillness.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=317"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/humansofchronicillness.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=317"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/humansofchronicillness.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=317"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}