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		<title>By: Barbara Keddy</title>
		<link>http://womenandfibromyalgia.com/2008/05/12/fibromyalgia-and-florence-nightingale/comment-page-1/#comment-2136</link>
		<dc:creator>Barbara Keddy</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Mon, 08 Mar 2010 05:08:11 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>Muchos gracias!</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<!-- encryptx:  /  --><!-- linktext:  /  --><p>Muchos gracias!</p>
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		<title>By: bet and win</title>
		<link>http://womenandfibromyalgia.com/2008/05/12/fibromyalgia-and-florence-nightingale/comment-page-1/#comment-2134</link>
		<dc:creator>bet and win</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Mon, 08 Mar 2010 01:57:57 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>Le doy las gracias por este artículo, es super bueno, excelente participación! Gracias</description>
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		<title>By: Barbara Keddy</title>
		<link>http://womenandfibromyalgia.com/2008/05/12/fibromyalgia-and-florence-nightingale/comment-page-1/#comment-51</link>
		<dc:creator>Barbara Keddy</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Thu, 15 May 2008 20:25:16 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>Thank you Tammy. I share your frustration and ironically I have just put up another blog about those elusive theories on cause, which I had finished before I read your comments. We are on the same wave length today!
How wonderful you won your disability case. I discuss these disability problems in my book.
Unfortunately I am not having a pain free day (do we ever?) but I have had worse.
Best wishes.</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<!-- encryptx:  /  --><!-- linktext:  /  --><p>Thank you Tammy. I share your frustration and ironically I have just put up another blog about those elusive theories on cause, which I had finished before I read your comments. We are on the same wave length today!<br />
How wonderful you won your disability case. I discuss these disability problems in my book.<br />
Unfortunately I am not having a pain free day (do we ever?) but I have had worse.<br />
Best wishes.</p>
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		<title>By: Tammy Elaine McPherson</title>
		<link>http://womenandfibromyalgia.com/2008/05/12/fibromyalgia-and-florence-nightingale/comment-page-1/#comment-50</link>
		<dc:creator>Tammy Elaine McPherson</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Thu, 15 May 2008 18:51:18 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>I just wanted to say that your blog is an excellent resource for FM/CFS Sufferers!  I have had FM for 15 years, wasn&#039;t properly diagnosed until 2003 and had to stop working in October, 2007.  Somehow, I managed to win my disability in only 4 months and it begins at the end of May.  It baffles me that they can claim that the &quot;jury is still out&quot; when my pain and suffering is very real!  I&#039;ve pretty much dedicated what is left of my life to helping others with the disease, maintaining a website, forum and blog.   If I can help just one other person who is suffering from this debilitating disease then I will feel that I have accomplished something with the shell of a life that this disease has left me with!

The medical profession as a whole, in my mind, are the ones confused...Is it the hypthalamus?  Mitochondrial Dysfunction? Stress Overload?  A past virus?  Infection?  Toxicity?  They can&#039;t prove any of these so they just say &quot;it&#039;s all in our minds&quot;!  As for effective treatments...they can&#039;t even agree that the disease is real, much less agree on or find a treatment or cure.  

I apologize, as I didn&#039;t intend to rant...it&#039;s just been one of those &quot;lives&quot; since I became ill with this disease.  Again, I am afraid my reading the article that led me to your blog just set me off!  LOL!  I appreciate your work and will recommend your site to my visitors as I am trying to offer every useful or helpful resource to them that I can find.  It seems that &quot;information&quot; is our greatest weopon against FM.

I hope you are blessed with a pain-free day!
Sincerely, 
Tammy Elaine McPherson
The Ultimate Fibromyalgia Resource Center</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<!-- encryptx:  /  --><!-- linktext:  /  --><p>I just wanted to say that your blog is an excellent resource for FM/CFS Sufferers!  I have had FM for 15 years, wasn&#8217;t properly diagnosed until 2003 and had to stop working in October, 2007.  Somehow, I managed to win my disability in only 4 months and it begins at the end of May.  It baffles me that they can claim that the &#8220;jury is still out&#8221; when my pain and suffering is very real!  I&#8217;ve pretty much dedicated what is left of my life to helping others with the disease, maintaining a website, forum and blog.   If I can help just one other person who is suffering from this debilitating disease then I will feel that I have accomplished something with the shell of a life that this disease has left me with!</p>
<p>The medical profession as a whole, in my mind, are the ones confused&#8230;Is it the hypthalamus?  Mitochondrial Dysfunction? Stress Overload?  A past virus?  Infection?  Toxicity?  They can&#8217;t prove any of these so they just say &#8220;it&#8217;s all in our minds&#8221;!  As for effective treatments&#8230;they can&#8217;t even agree that the disease is real, much less agree on or find a treatment or cure.  </p>
<p>I apologize, as I didn&#8217;t intend to rant&#8230;it&#8217;s just been one of those &#8220;lives&#8221; since I became ill with this disease.  Again, I am afraid my reading the article that led me to your blog just set me off!  LOL!  I appreciate your work and will recommend your site to my visitors as I am trying to offer every useful or helpful resource to them that I can find.  It seems that &#8220;information&#8221; is our greatest weopon against FM.</p>
<p>I hope you are blessed with a pain-free day!<br />
Sincerely,<br />
Tammy Elaine McPherson<br />
The Ultimate Fibromyalgia Resource Center</p>
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		<title>By: Katrice</title>
		<link>http://womenandfibromyalgia.com/2008/05/12/fibromyalgia-and-florence-nightingale/comment-page-1/#comment-46</link>
		<dc:creator>Katrice</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Thu, 15 May 2008 06:48:14 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>I also discovered your blog from the Science Daily article.  I, too, suffer with fibromyalgia, and am very grateful to have found your site.  I look forward to learning and sharing, and will revisit often.

Thanks!</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<!-- encryptx:  /  --><!-- linktext:  /  --><p>I also discovered your blog from the Science Daily article.  I, too, suffer with fibromyalgia, and am very grateful to have found your site.  I look forward to learning and sharing, and will revisit often.</p>
<p>Thanks!</p>
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		<title>By: Barbara Keddy</title>
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		<dc:creator>Barbara Keddy</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Wed, 14 May 2008 22:02:27 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>Will do so immediately and thank you! CFS and FMS are even closer than usual siblings...more like twins! Your site is a wonderful resource also! Hope you will read my book and comment on it!</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<!-- encryptx:  /  --><!-- linktext:  /  --><p>Will do so immediately and thank you! CFS and FMS are even closer than usual siblings&#8230;more like twins! Your site is a wonderful resource also! Hope you will read my book and comment on it!</p>
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		<title>By: Fighting Fatigue/Sandy</title>
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		<dc:creator>Fighting Fatigue/Sandy</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Wed, 14 May 2008 21:50:28 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>Hi Barbara!  What a great resource you have here!  I was wondering if you would like to exchange links with my CFS/FM website?  I would love to add you to my list of CFS/FM Resources page.</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<!-- encryptx:  /  --><!-- linktext:  /  --><p>Hi Barbara!  What a great resource you have here!  I was wondering if you would like to exchange links with my CFS/FM website?  I would love to add you to my list of CFS/FM Resources page.</p>
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		<title>By: Barbara Keddy</title>
		<link>http://womenandfibromyalgia.com/2008/05/12/fibromyalgia-and-florence-nightingale/comment-page-1/#comment-40</link>
		<dc:creator>Barbara Keddy</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Wed, 14 May 2008 19:32:02 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>Thanks Robyn! Hope you will also enjoy the book!</description>
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		<title>By: Robyn</title>
		<link>http://womenandfibromyalgia.com/2008/05/12/fibromyalgia-and-florence-nightingale/comment-page-1/#comment-39</link>
		<dc:creator>Robyn</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Wed, 14 May 2008 18:05:10 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>I just read about your blog on the Science Daily postings and as a fibromyalgia sufferer I look forward to reading more from you. Thank you for this blog.</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<!-- encryptx:  /  --><!-- linktext:  /  --><p>I just read about your blog on the Science Daily postings and as a fibromyalgia sufferer I look forward to reading more from you. Thank you for this blog.</p>
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