{"id":11992,"date":"2017-02-27T11:45:50","date_gmt":"2017-02-27T11:45:50","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/wames.org.uk\/cms-english\/?p=11992"},"modified":"2017-02-27T11:57:00","modified_gmt":"2017-02-27T11:57:00","slug":"people-with-me-in-south-africa-share-their-stories","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/wames.org.uk\/cms-english\/people-with-me-in-south-africa-share-their-stories\/","title":{"rendered":"People with ME in South Africa share their stories"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Carte Blanche<\/strong> blog post, 19 February 2017: Living With Chronic Fatigue Syndrome<\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px;\">The effects of ME\/CFS are very real and can change a patient\u2019s life in a dramatic way. Three South African women share their stories on living with this condition: Retha, Rika and Nathalie\u00a0 <a href=\"https:\/\/carteblanche.dstv.com\/chronic-fatigue-syndrome\/\" target=\"_blank\">Read more<\/a><\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_11993\" style=\"width: 310px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-11993\" class=\"wp-image-11993 size-medium lazyload\" data-src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/wames.org.uk\/cms-english\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/02\/Nathalie-Retha-300x225.jpg?resize=300%2C225\" width=\"300\" height=\"225\" data-srcset=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/wames.org.uk\/cms-english\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/02\/Nathalie-Retha.jpg?resize=300%2C225&amp;ssl=1 300w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/wames.org.uk\/cms-english\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/02\/Nathalie-Retha.jpg?resize=150%2C113&amp;ssl=1 150w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/wames.org.uk\/cms-english\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/02\/Nathalie-Retha.jpg?resize=768%2C576&amp;ssl=1 768w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/wames.org.uk\/cms-english\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/02\/Nathalie-Retha.jpg?w=800&amp;ssl=1 800w\" data-sizes=\"(max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" src=\"data:image\/svg+xml;base64,PHN2ZyB3aWR0aD0iMSIgaGVpZ2h0PSIxIiB4bWxucz0iaHR0cDovL3d3dy53My5vcmcvMjAwMC9zdmciPjwvc3ZnPg==\" style=\"--smush-placeholder-width: 300px; --smush-placeholder-aspect-ratio: 300\/225;\" \/><p id=\"caption-attachment-11993\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Nathalie &amp; Retha<\/p><\/div>\n<p><strong>Nathalie Williams says:<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Please share this video to help raise awareness of Myalgic Encephalomyelitis (ME), also referred to as Chronic Fatigue Syndrome (CFS).<\/p>\n<p>To share this video on other platforms, here&#8217;s the link: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/NathalieHWilliams\/videos\/10156004031092619\/\" target=\"_blank\">https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/NathalieHWilliams\/videos\/10156004031092619\/<\/a><\/p>\n<p><strong>or watch it on the ME Association website:<\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px;\">A\u00a010-film on M.E. was shown on\u00a0Carte Blanche, South Africa\u2019s longest-running TV investigation show, on 20 February 2017. It has won plaudits round the world for its straight talking about this illness, and choice of interview subjects \u2013 particularly Dr Ron Davis and David Tuller. Nathalie Williams\u00a0is featured in the film \u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.meassociation.org.uk\/2017\/02\/plaudits-for-new-south-african-tv-news-documentary-on-m-e-24-february-2017\/\" target=\"_blank\">Watch video<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/mecfssa.org\/\" target=\"_blank\">ME\/CFS Foundation South Africa<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Carte Blanche blog post, 19 February 2017: Living With Chronic Fatigue Syndrome The effects of ME\/CFS are very real and can change a patient\u2019s life in a dramatic way. Three South African women share their stories on living with this &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/wames.org.uk\/cms-english\/people-with-me-in-south-africa-share-their-stories\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":true,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[1],"tags":[3534,367,3533,3532],"class_list":["post-11992","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news","tag-carte-blanche","tag-me-association","tag-nathalie-williams","tag-south-africa"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p5qkYK-37q","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/wames.org.uk\/cms-english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11992","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/wames.org.uk\/cms-english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/wames.org.uk\/cms-english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wames.org.uk\/cms-english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wames.org.uk\/cms-english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=11992"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/wames.org.uk\/cms-english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11992\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":11996,"href":"https:\/\/wames.org.uk\/cms-english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11992\/revisions\/11996"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/wames.org.uk\/cms-english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=11992"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wames.org.uk\/cms-english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=11992"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wames.org.uk\/cms-english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=11992"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}