{"id":2889,"date":"2011-02-05T08:38:01","date_gmt":"2011-02-04T21:38:01","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/vettycreations.com.au\/white-threads\/?p=2889"},"modified":"2017-10-24T16:33:07","modified_gmt":"2017-10-24T05:33:07","slug":"caring-when-serious-illness-strikes","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/vettycreations.com.au\/white-threads\/2011\/02\/05\/caring-when-serious-illness-strikes\/","title":{"rendered":"caring when serious illness strikes"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>As many of you probably know, in 2008 I became sick with what is known as Chronic Fatigue Syndrome (CFS). I personally believe that CFS is a label given to illness when the medical professionals treating the sufferer can&#8217;t find the real cause of the mysterious illness. It is diagnosed simply by ruling other things out. So if you haven&#8217;t got A, B, C, D,&#8230;. X, Y or Z, but you&#8217;ve had symptoms 1, 2 and 3 for more than six months, then we&#8217;ll call it CFS.<\/p>\n<p>Due to the prayers of my church and family, and the treatment of my doctor who is also a traditional Chinese medicine practioner, I eventually became well again after 9 months. Some people think this is a very long time to be sick, but I consider it to be blissfully short for an illness that can afflict some people for years and years.<\/p>\n<p>I tend to do my thinking through writing. Towards the end of my illness, I had a big think, and wrote an article called <a href=\"http:\/\/www.vettycreations.com.au\/caring-serious-illness.html\">Caring when serious or chronic illness strikes<\/a>. I&#8217;ve put it up on my website in the hope that others might find it useful.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>As many of you probably know, in 2008 I became sick with what is known as Chronic Fatigue Syndrome (CFS). I personally believe that CFS is a label given to illness when the medical professionals treating the sufferer can&#8217;t find the real cause of the mysterious illness. It is diagnosed simply by ruling other things [&#8230;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[63],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2889","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-white-threads-uncategorized","odd"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/vettycreations.com.au\/white-threads\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2889","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/vettycreations.com.au\/white-threads\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/vettycreations.com.au\/white-threads\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/vettycreations.com.au\/white-threads\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/vettycreations.com.au\/white-threads\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2889"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"http:\/\/vettycreations.com.au\/white-threads\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2889\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2894,"href":"http:\/\/vettycreations.com.au\/white-threads\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2889\/revisions\/2894"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/vettycreations.com.au\/white-threads\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2889"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/vettycreations.com.au\/white-threads\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2889"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/vettycreations.com.au\/white-threads\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2889"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}