ME/CFS and Me

Today is May 12th and for a lot of years it has been designated as ME/CFS awareness day.

I've been afflicted with ME/CFS for 40 years and I've known that when I would get older if nothing has been identified as an effective treatment for this awful illness (and there is none yet) the symptoms would only get worse. In a couple of weeks I'll have my 71st birthday, God willing, and I can verify that indeed ME/CFS does NOT get better with time.

The last two years have seen rapid escalation of lots of very painful and debilitating muscular/neurological symptoms and one of the things I'm missing more than I can express is my ability to stitch! It has always been something that got my mind off of some of the challenges and I've fought hard to maintain it, but finally have had to accept I can't do it any more. Thankfully, I can still design and hope to have a new pattern out soon.

One major change I'm announcing today is that I have closed the gracewoodstitches.com website. If anyone wants to order patterns directly from me just send an email to bungard.gracewood@gmail.com telling me which patterns you wish to purchase and I'll send a paypal invoice to you. I'll still post on this blog for all new designs and hope I'll continue to create patterns you may wish to stitch. Hoping all of you and yours are well, please stay that way :) Happy stitching, Kathy