Drops From The Well of Suffering: Honoring Maeve Boothby O’Neill

It is a travesty that Maeve did not receive nutrition like I received.  I was just as sick as Maeve with very similar symptoms, including sensitivity to stimuli like light, sounds, voices and the company of other people in my room and like Maeve, I could not eat enough food to survive.  If I was treated the way Maeve was treated, I would be dead just like Maeve.  Luckily, I had doctors who viewed ME/CFS as the serious physiological disease that it is, and who understood that the risk of needing to take antibiotics occasionally or add a few extra steps to my daily routine was better than the certainty of death from starvation, dehydration or malnutrition, which is what killed Maeve.  Maeve just needed a way to get nutrition into her body.  I got TPN and lived.  Maeve was denied TPN and died.  ✏️ My ME/CFS Blog❓What is ME/CFS?👤 My Story📄 ME/CFS Resources🙏 Donate to ME/CFS Research🖼️ My Print Store