Famous People With ME

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Having a quiet day today, and have just read an interesting short article.

Both Charles Darwin and Florence Nightingale suffered, by the sound of it, from ME.

'For much of his adult life Charles Darwin's illness repeatedly affected him with an uncommon combination of symptoms, leaving him severely debiiitated for long periods of time, incapable of normal life and intellectual production, staying in bed most of the time for months. He wrote 'constant attacks makes life an intolerable bother and stops all work'.

For many years Florence Nightingale was bedridden and her birthday is now celebrated as the International CFS Awareness Day.

So we are in good company sad

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    What is it with nurses and ME? :shock:

    Dale xxx

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    That's interesting about Florence :roll:

    Yes Dale, I agree :roll: What is it about nurses :nurse: I can never find that :nurse: emoticon, I have to scan every individual one to find it, :roll: I'm convinced it moves around :lol: or is it just ME :lol:

    Nurses :nurse: always have complications giving birth too, well i did 2 out of 3 :roll:

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    Teedie, Ally was 4 weeks early and ventouse delivery for foetal distress, so yes, I would say that was problematic! :cry:

    I only caught a glimpse of her before she went to SCBU and I was convinced she was Downs :shock:

    Turns out her face was just swollen.. :P

    She was still 6 and a half pounds though :wink:

    Dale xxx

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    Yes, nurses always have problems with childbirth .... its' so weird.

    Anna was induced six weeks early due to problems and I ended up having a high forceps delivery after a 52 hour labour :shock:

    I was black and blue from the waist down and had about a hundred internal and external stitches ..... still makes my eyes water to think about it :yikes:

    No wonder I only had one child :roll:

    Teedie, it's funny what you say about the nurse :nurse: emoticon ..... I can never find her for ages either ..... think she must be off on her rounds :lol:

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    My first born was a mid cavity forceps delivery with no epidural and i also had a retained placenta and had to have it manually evacuated under GA, episiotomy, the lot, followed by a blood transfusion. She was 8lbs 3oz. :roll:

    Child 2 like you Dale, something else we have in common, was a ventouse delivery and episiotomy. He was 9lbs 10oz. Ouch! :o The midwife actually cried when he was born as they gave me such a hard time, not realising how big he was.

    Child 3 just slipped out at a mere 7lbs 6oz. No stitches. :lol:

    What have we started :lol:

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    Child 1 - 8 hours, episiotomy, internal and external stitches :roll:

    Child 2 - 5 hours, slight tear, few stitches :D

    Child 3 - 9 hours labour, emergency caesarean under GA, cut in half and stitched up again. :shock:

    Child 4 - forget it :lol:

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    Forgot to mention :roll:

    Child 3 did give me problems :roll: I was induced 3 weeks early due to pre-eclampsia on \"Hogmanay\" (New Year's Eve) to you lot :lol:

    She was the first born on New Years Day in our local hospital. :cracker: I made front page news in my local paper :thepost: Oh what a lovely photo that was, NOT :twisted: My claim to fame :boing:

    She's going to love us when she turns 18, :gift: no nightclubs open :roll:

    My eldest daughter was born on my birthday, :gift: 12 days early. :D

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    Child 1 - 14 days overdue, 8 hours delivery, forceps - 9lb 10oz

    Child 2 - 5 days overdue, 4 hours delivery - 8lb 2oz

    Child 3 - 13 days overdue. Unfortunately, went into labour twice in one day ....

    Hubby arrived home at 0330 from a flight from the Falklands, went into labour an hour later, midwives arrived (as a home birth was planned) confirmed everything was going strong - everything stopped at midday. Doctor arrived - don't worry we will let you go for another 2 days and then will take you in and induce!!

    1700 she started again, midwife arrives - sorry can't bring you any gas & air, I am pregnant and can't carry it!! She arrived an hour and 50 mins later - 7lb 10oz.

    She has spent the rest of her life with her brothers complaining that her crying interupted their episode of Knight Rider - which has never been shown to this day....

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    Oooops - just realised this was supposed to be the \"Famous People with ME\" - we have gone slightly off-topic here. Unless we all count ourselves as famous.
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    I was just about to say the same thing :lol:

    I should think that anyone thinking of having a baby who reads this thread, will think again :shock:

    Would act as a good contraceptive though :D

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    It's all Teedie's fault again :roll:

    As per usual :lol:

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    PS .... Are moderators allowed to give detentions :lol:
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    my eyes are watering. :cry:

    Trees x

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    Why Trees, don't cry :cuddle:

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