Article from Farmers Guardian - Farming with ME

[Wolds Beef]

Having corresponded with @Chris F I am posting this article here.
I have 2 reasons for doing so. Firstly it is a good article about an invisible problem, my only daughter suffers from the same problem and really struggles to get out of the House. We also have Cattle, in fact we have a Pedigree Lincoln Red Herd. The two girls correspond and I believe Holly's father has chatted to my Wife and Daughter at the GYS. It is a problem that is invisible and my daughter gets stick from people for using her mobility scooter at shows and sales because she shows no symptoms. She manages to show my cattle but has to pace herself very carefully. I, like most fathers, sometimes put my foot in it and tell her to get on!! when she is really struggling.
WB

 

[Doing it for the kids]

I to have suffered from this since I was 14. ME is a Bugger, no casts or visible signs Yet you get funny looks needing to sit down where ever you go.

i have to use a shooting stick when in the line, much to me neighbours amusement!

it’s great to be able to find a way to live life with out letting it get you down

 

[Wolds Beef]

@Chris F

 

[yellowbelly]

You have to stand on your head to read the pdf's! - could an admin turn them the right way up?!

Well, as far as @Wolds Beef is concernrd, upside down is progress - he usually has to enlist the services of @JP1 to post anything other than words

Well done @Wolds Beef
The article is well worth a read even if you have to turn your device upside down

 

[JP1]

Well, as far as @Wolds Beef is concernrd, upside down is progress - he usually has to enlist the services of @JP1 to post anything other than words

Well done @Wolds Beef
The article is well worth a read even if you have to turn your device upside down

Yes I tried

I could get the PDF turned round but not saved. I even converted them to JPG but still upside down. So I suggested Wolds Beef contacted @Chris F as a mod who could sort and even post in his name

Sadly it doesn't look like we are any further forward here

 

[Mark Hatton]

Try these...

 

[Wolds Beef]

Thanks
@Mark Hatton

 

[Wolds Beef]

Are there any more suffers of this dreadful problem on here? How do you keep on farming?
WB

 

[delilah]

Are there any more suffers of this dreadful problem on here? How do you keep on farming?
WB

All credit to your daughter, fantastic to see her positivity.
30 yrs ago now; Glandular fever, then what felt like recovery, then bad bout of flu, absolutely floored. ME diagnosis followed. Never to the extent of your daughter, just periods of severe fatigue, not being able to get up the stairs without a bit of a rest, long periods of normalish. Topping it up with shingles doesn't help lol. You live with it, and it looks like your girl has absolutely the right mentality .

 

[H.M.]

Having corresponded with @Chris F I am posting this article here.
I have 2 reasons for doing so. Firstly it is a good article about an invisible problem, my only daughter suffers from the same problem and really struggles to get out of the House. We also have Cattle, in fact we have a Pedigree Lincoln Red Herd. The two girls correspond and I believe Holly's father has chatted to my Wife and Daughter at the GYS. It is a problem that is invisible and my daughter gets stick from people for using her mobility scooter at shows and sales because she shows no symptoms. She manages to show my cattle but has to pace herself very carefully. I, like most fathers, sometimes put my foot in it and tell her to get on!! when she is really struggling.
WB

After just chatting to your daughter it dawned on me that we already knew each other on here - I'm the Holly in the article, although it probably comes as a surprise to most on here! Thank you for sharing it

 

[Wolds Beef]

@delilah Holly is not my daughter! But Katie my daughter talks to Holly from time to time. As you can see Holly is a member on here!!

 

[Wolds Beef]

@H.M. Well, well a fabulous ambassador for Lincoln Red's. We will have to get you with a LR bull and pedigree females!!
WB
P.S. I hope we can bump into each other when things are back normal and you are fitter!>

 

[Chris F]

@Chris F

Fixed

 

[H.M.]

@H.M. Well, well a fabulous ambassador for Lincoln Red's. We will have to get you with a LR bull and pedigree females!!
WB
P.S. I hope we can bump into each other when things are back normal and you are fitter!>

Maybe one day

I hope so too, it would be lovely to meet you and Katie in person

 

[Wolds Beef]

Thanks @Chris F That's brilliant. It has also made the Lincoln Red Facebook page thanks to a friend of mine and Katie's!

 

[Christoph1945]

Wonderful to read of young people not giving in and throwing in the towel, or turning to alcohol and drugs. Lots of folk these days suffer from 'me' and would buckle under if stricken with ME!

Chris

 

[Bruce Almighty]

Well done @H.M.

My wife was diagnosed with Parkinson's last year at 49.
Different I know but it's the things people don't see.

Most people think it's about shaking, but they don't know about what you can't see, in my wife's case the lack of self confidence & low self esteem, the fatigue from the shaking & probably worst of all is the insomnia that goes with it

 

[flowerpot]

I think Dr. Sahra Myhill treats people with ME, she has a Facebook page. Though I'm not sure if she is taking on any more patients at the moment.

 

[Doing it for the kids]

Yet to find a cure sadly, they have been trying things on me since ‘94!

if it doesn’t kill you it makes you stronger

plenty of people are dealt a bad pack of cards in life, it’s just making the best of what you have and learning how to manage it. im personally very fortunate in many other ways.

i miss sports the most

 

[Wolds Beef]

@H.M. Were do you find your female replacements. Have you got particular breeders to go to or do you go to the Lincoln Red Website were females are advertised? Breeders often a surplus of females that commercial herds could tap into.
WB