{"id":491,"date":"2020-07-31T19:11:59","date_gmt":"2020-07-31T19:11:59","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/humansofchronicillness.org\/?p=491"},"modified":"2021-03-16T20:53:40","modified_gmt":"2021-03-16T20:53:40","slug":"dixie-j","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/humansofchronicillness.org\/2020\/07\/dixie-j\/","title":{"rendered":"Dixie J."},"content":{"rendered":"<h2 style=\"text-align: center;\">Humans of ME\/CFS<\/h2>\n<p>My story started six years ago.\u00a0 I awoke to horrible fatigue, whole body weakness, and\u00a0<strong style=\"margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; outline: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; background: transparent;\">a<\/strong>\u00a0racing heart. I was diagnosed with\u00a0<strong style=\"margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; outline: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; background: transparent;\">POTS (postural orthostatic tachycardia syndrome)<\/strong>\u00a0a few months later. After every test (and I mean\u00a0<em style=\"margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; outline: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; background: transparent;\">every<\/em>\u00a0test), I was given a CFS diagnosis. Some days I feel\u00a0<strong style=\"margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; outline: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; background: transparent;\">\u201cnormal;\u201d\u00a0<\/strong>on other days, my bone-crushing fatigue confines me to a wheelchair and I am bedridden. It feels like the most horrific flu for days, weeks<strong style=\"margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; outline: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; background: transparent;\">,<\/strong>\u00a0or months at a time.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Humans of ME\/CFS My story started six years ago.\u00a0 I awoke to horrible fatigue, whole body weakness, and\u00a0a\u00a0racing heart. I was diagnosed with\u00a0POTS (postural orthostatic tachycardia syndrome)\u00a0a few months later. After every test (and I mean\u00a0every\u00a0test), I was given a CFS diagnosis. Some days I feel\u00a0\u201cnormal;\u201d\u00a0on other days, my bone-crushing fatigue confines me to a [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":470,"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\/dixie.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/humansofchronicillness.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/491"}],"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=491"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/humansofchronicillness.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/491\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/humansofchronicillness.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/470"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/humansofchronicillness.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=491"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/humansofchronicillness.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=491"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/humansofchronicillness.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=491"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}