{"id":1509,"date":"2012-07-20T14:25:09","date_gmt":"2012-07-20T14:25:09","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/wames.org.uk\/cms-english\/?p=1509"},"modified":"2012-07-20T14:25:09","modified_gmt":"2012-07-20T14:25:09","slug":"michelle-penny-living-with-me-for-the-last-17-years","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/wames.org.uk\/cms-english\/michelle-penny-living-with-me-for-the-last-17-years\/","title":{"rendered":"Michelle Penny &#8211; Living with ME for the last 17 years"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>For the last 17 years, Michelle Penny has been crippled by chronic fatigue and pain, which has left her virtually bed-bound. She tells Rachel Mainwaring what it\u2019s like living with ME at <a title=\"Wales online article\" href=\"http:\/\/www.walesonline.co.uk\/news\/health-news\/2012\/07\/18\/living-with-me-91466-31412698\/#ixzz21Ak3QVFd\" target=\"_blank\">Wales online<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Excerpts:<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;I relapsed in October and this is probably the worst I\u2019ve ever been,\u201d says Michelle. \u201cPeople think it\u2019s just a condition that makes you tired all the time but it\u2019s worse then that. It\u2019s the pain that\u2019s the worst thing. It\u2019s not that I\u2019m not motivated to do things, I just can\u2019t. I just don\u2019t have the energy and my legs really hurt&#8230;&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Michelle\u2019s condition means she is also very sensitive to light and noise so, while sitting in bed, she has a slightly darkened room with very little natural light coming in, and plays her iPod very quietly, just to provide some background noise&#8230;<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIt\u2019s more than just being tired. I have trouble concentrating so I can\u2019t even read books anymore, even though I used to love to read. I also get very random headaches&#8230;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>For the last 17 years, Michelle Penny has been crippled by chronic fatigue and pain, which has left her virtually bed-bound. She tells Rachel Mainwaring what it\u2019s like living with ME at Wales online. Excerpts: &#8220;I relapsed in October and &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/wames.org.uk\/cms-english\/michelle-penny-living-with-me-for-the-last-17-years\/\">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":false,"_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":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[1],"tags":[165,167,166],"class_list":["post-1509","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news","tag-michelle-penny","tag-rachel-mainwaring","tag-wales-online"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p5qkYK-ol","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/wames.org.uk\/cms-english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1509","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=1509"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/wames.org.uk\/cms-english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1509\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1511,"href":"https:\/\/wames.org.uk\/cms-english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1509\/revisions\/1511"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/wames.org.uk\/cms-english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1509"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wames.org.uk\/cms-english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1509"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wames.org.uk\/cms-english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1509"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}