{"id":682,"date":"2020-07-31T20:41:23","date_gmt":"2020-07-31T20:41:23","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/humansofchronicillness.org\/?p=682"},"modified":"2021-03-16T20:53:39","modified_gmt":"2021-03-16T20:53:39","slug":"donna-r","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/humansofchronicillness.org\/2020\/07\/donna-r\/","title":{"rendered":"Donna R."},"content":{"rendered":"<h2 style=\"text-align: center;\">Humans of ME\/CFS<\/h2>\n<p>I hate the ME<br \/>\nThat people see.<br \/>\nCompression sock lady freak<br \/>\nWith five barrettes and a headband<br \/>\nHolding back my unwashed, uncut hair under a Grand Canyon ballcap.<\/p>\n<p>Try to have a conversation with me<br \/>\nAnd you will leave shaking your head<br \/>\nWondering what is up with that crazy lady,<br \/>\nCalling a car a banana.<\/p>\n<p>If you think it was hard<br \/>\nTo allow you to see me like this<br \/>\nWhen I was once able to give professional presentations<br \/>\nCome to my house.<\/p>\n<p>Visit me after the smiling pictures are posted to Facebook<br \/>\nWhen I am so crashed I pee myself.<br \/>\nLying on the bed<br \/>\nAnd cannot even whisper for help.<\/p>\n<p>Visit me after, when my head thumps,<br \/>\nAnd my vision is blurred.<br \/>\nMy face burns.<br \/>\nAnd I do not even have the strength<br \/>\nTo swallow the saliva in my throat.<\/p>\n<p>Enjoy my wonderful life<br \/>\nThat Facebook portrays.<br \/>\nPretend my illness doesn&#8217;t exist.<\/p>\n<p>I do.<\/p>\n<p>Until I can&#8217;t.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Humans of ME\/CFS I hate the ME That people see. Compression sock lady freak With five barrettes and a headband Holding back my unwashed, uncut hair under a Grand Canyon ballcap. Try to have a conversation with me And you will leave shaking your head Wondering what is up with that crazy lady, Calling a [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":661,"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\/donna_r.png","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/humansofchronicillness.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/682"}],"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=682"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/humansofchronicillness.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/682\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/humansofchronicillness.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/661"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/humansofchronicillness.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=682"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/humansofchronicillness.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=682"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/humansofchronicillness.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=682"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}