On Eagles Wings
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Hazel Stapleton is originally from North Somerset. She was diagnosed with ME in 1991. Since then her health has deteriorated, and she is now house-bound and most of the time bed-bound. Hazel lives with her parents in County Down, Northern Ireland.
On Eagles Wings
2d ago
The Joy of Easter
O the joy of that the first Easter morning,
When Jesus rose victorious from the grave.
O the gladness of the new day dawning,
For those He came to save.
This life with all its joys and golden hours,
Passes as swiftly as a tale well told.
So soon forgotten, all man’s greatest powers:
Death takes both young and old.
Long separated by our sin from One
Whose holiness we could not stand before.
We now draw near, sin’s barrier is gone;
Jesus, for us, the Door.
For when on Calvary’s cross the Saviour died,
Bearing His people’s sin and punishment,
Pardon was purchased by the Crucifie ..read more
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1w ago
https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2024/mar/12/chronic-fatigue-syndrome-me-treatments-social-services
George Monbiot
From harmful ‘therapies’ to social services referrals, the notion that this illness is psychosomatic is having devastating effects
It’s the greatest medical scandal of the 21st century. For decades, patients with ME/CFS (myalgic encephalomyelitis/chronic fatigue syndrome) have been told they can make themselves better by changing their attitudes. This devastating condition, which afflicts about 250,000 people in the UK, was psychologised by many doctors and scientists, a ..read more
On Eagles Wings
2w ago
From the ME Association website –
https://meassociation.org.uk/2024/03/magenta-trial-get-is-not-an-effective-treatment-for-me-cfs/
ME Association Comment
The MAGENTA trial (Managed Activity Graded Exercise in Teenagers and Pre-Adolescents) investigated the safety and effectiveness of graded exercise therapy (GET) in children and teenagers with mild or moderate ME/CFS.
The trial started in 2016 with a feasibility study, and compared GET with an activity management (AM) protocol. It was funded by the National Institute for Health Research (NIHR) as part of a research fellowship award for paedia ..read more
On Eagles Wings
3w ago
C H Spurgeon’s Morning Devotional for 3 March
http://bible.christiansunite.com/Morning_and_Evening/chme0303.shtml
“I have chosen thee in the furnace of affliction.”
Isaiah 48:10
Comfort thyself, tried believer, with this thought: God saith, “I have chosen thee in the furnace of affliction.” Does not the word come like a soft shower, assuaging the fury of the flame? Yea, is it not an asbestos armour, against which the heat hath no power? Let affliction come-God has chosen me. Poverty, thou mayst stride in at my door, but God is in the house already, and He has chosen me. Sickness, thou mayst in ..read more
On Eagles Wings
3w ago
From the ME Association website –
https://meassociation.org.uk/2024/02/nih-study-of-me-cfs-points-to-immune-dysfunction-and-brain-abnormalities/
For decades, [ME/CFS] was considered a women’s condition, and patients were told it was in their heads. Now research leaves no doubt: ME/CFS is a disease with clear biological hallmarks.
Extracts
A new, detailed study from the National Institutes of Health takes the most rigorous look yet inside the bodies of patients with the condition. The 70-page manuscript, published in Nature Communications on Wednesday, took almost eight years and over $8 milli ..read more
On Eagles Wings
1M ago
From the ME Research UK website –
https://www.meresearch.org.uk/disbelief-attitudes-culture-and-me-cfs/
Two separate broadcasters, Channel 4 and the BBC, covered the plight of those affected by ME/CFS on 19th and 20th February 2024 respectively with common themes arising – lack of care provision, disbelief, negative attitudes to ME/CFS, and cultural resistance to acceptance of ME/CFS within the ‘caring professions’.
Channel 4 news featured a 12 min segment ‘M.E.: Lives devastated – and sufferers are told it’s made up’ which inteviewed Clare Norton (mother of late Merryn Crofts) and Sean O’Nei ..read more
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1M ago
https://www.meresearch.org.uk/me-research-uk-and-the-me-association-announce-funding-for-a-study-that-aims-to-create-a-diagnostic-test-for-me-cfs/
From the ME Research UK website –
In 2019, Professor Ron Davis from America reported that researchers had developed a nanoelectronics test that could detect an impedance in white blood cells taken from people with ME/CFS 1.
They felt their findings could represent a diagnostic marker, but since then there hasn’t been any further research in this area. ME Research UK and the ME Association have jointly funded a new 12-month study that will build upo ..read more
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1M ago
https://www.meresearch.org.uk/research-shows-that-me-cfs-is-a-biological-illness-so-why-do-some-people-still-think-it-is-psychological-in-nature/
From the ME Research UK website –
Although research has shown that people with ME/CFS have biological abnormalities that are associated with disease severity and symptoms, and most researchers consider ME/CFS as a biological disease, there is still a misconception amongst many people – worryingly, including health professionals – that the disease is psychological in nature (psychosomatic) rather than biological.
A recent article by a team of researc ..read more
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1M ago
C H Spurgeon’s Morning Devotional for 05 February
http://bible.christiansunite.com/Morning_and_Evening/chme0205.shtml
“The Father sent the Son to be the Saviour of the world.”
1 John 4:14
It is a sweet thought that Jesus Christ did not come forth without His Father’s permission, authority, consent, and assistance. He was sent of the Father, that He might be the Saviour of men. We are too apt to forget that, while there are distinctions as to the persons in the Trinity, there are no distinctions of honour. We too frequently ascribe the honour of our salvation, or at least the depths of it ..read more
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2M ago
From the ME Research UK website –
https://www.meresearch.org.uk/me-cfs-and-cell-energy-metabolism/
‘Frontiers in Immunology’ has recently published a study which highlights that while abnormalities in the process of energy production (energy metabolism) within the body have consistently been linked with ME/CFS – less is known about energy metabolism specifically in cells of the immune system in those with the disease.
Therefore, the research team investigated differences in energy metabolism within cells involved in the immune response – peripheral blood mononuclear cells (PBMCs), between peo ..read more