If You Would Just Get Out Of Bed My Life With Chronic Fatigue

Chronic Fatigue and Immune Dysfunction Syndrome (CFIDS) has had a name since the Eighties. It's a catch-all term for a broad base of symptoms. So far no one knows what causes CFIDS. They haven't isolated a virus, or established whether it's passed down from parent to child. Who knows, it could be some kind of spontaneous genetic mutation. There are many in the medical community who say it doesn't exist. Sound familiar? Back in the Eighties some doctors said the same things about the diseases we now call AIDS and Hepatitis C. Author Stephanie Kelley has run the gauntlet with CFIDS. It's cost her jobs, friendships, and her self-respect. She lost a promising modeling career when attempted treatments for CFIDS caused her weight to nearly double. Later it took every ounce of energy she could muster to keep the very special man she was to marry. Experience Stephanie's first-hand account depicting her love of life, her family and her husband, and how they have come together to help minimize the damage of a disease with no set treatment, and no cure. Few things are guaranteed in Stephanie's world, and these days she's learned to live without regard for her disease. It no longer rules her life. Take a look inside a disease impacting millions of Americans -- destroying lives and families. See how one woman copes with a condition that has no treatment, no magic bullet, and no cure in sight. Book jacket.If You Would Just Get Out Of Bed My Life With Chronic Fatigue, was published 2003 under ISBN 9780974271002 and ISBN 0974271004.