Path: utzoo!censor!geac!torsqnt!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!cs.utexas.edu!yale!bunker!hcap!hnews!163!223!Chris.Brown From: Chris.Brown@f223.n163.z1.fidonet.org (Chris Brown) Newsgroups: misc.handicap Subject: RE: AARON FELDMAN Message-ID: <16117@bunker.UUCP> Date: 4 Dec 90 16:06:20 GMT Sender: wtm@bunker.UUCP Reply-To: Chris.Brown@f223.n163.z1.fidonet.org Distribution: misc Organization: FidoNet node 1:163/223 - CHANNEL-23, Orleans ON Lines: 41 Approved: wtm@bunker.UUCP Index Number: 12201 Good to hear from you, Aaron. There is discussion about Chronic fatigue Syndrome, but Health and Welfare in Ottawa has recognized it as a legitimate disease. Sometime in the future we can expect the decrepit ealth system in the U.S. to catch up...sometime after doctors there stop bickering and start having a more productive discussion about poorly understood illnesses. A friend of mine who has multiple sensitivities found that he, like several others in our self-help group for people with sensitivities, has an over-reacting immune system partly because he has chronic fatigue syndrome...which seems to be related to a particular kind of polio virus that many people have...some of them after having polio without being aware of having had polio, their case was so mild. He also seems to have immune problems due to defective kidnesy not cleaning out his system properly. (If someone tells you chronic fatigue results from the Epstein Barr virus, they are apparently mistaken...there doesn't seem to be a correlation between having that virus and having chronic fatigue. People here call the illness ME, intitials for the polio virus Canadian specialists think is the usual cause. Beware of people with quick single answers for these illnesses...there seem to be a cluster of illness involving a variety of poorly understood physiologies, and a lot of people making grand claims without substantiation about the physiology. The main fight i've been involved in centres around how we deal with people with these disabling problems in the meantime, and promoting the rescue of those with chronic disabilities and illnesses whose problems may be caused or significantly exacerbated by sensitivities, whatever the specific physiology involved. It's a slow process to get doctors to admit there might be something they should learn about that they don't already know. (not all doctors, of course, but reaching that critical mass where it's possible to put an end to abuse of members of this disabled gorup by doctors has only recently been achieved inCanada, and it's still over the horizon in the U.S. Britain recognized the problem years ago...but maybe that's because doctors there don't work on the profit system.) -- Uucp: ..!{decvax,oliveb}!bunker!hcap!hnews!163!223!Chris.Brown Internet: Chris.Brown@f223.n163.z1.fidonet.org Brought to you by Super Global Mega Corp .com