Hi everyone. Posting this feels strange, but I’ve run out of ways to manage this alone. I’ve been severely ill with ME/CFS and long COVID for four years and am now mostly bedbound. I tried working as long as I could, until my health collapsed fully. I had to move out of my apartment as I had no money left, only debt. I’m currently living with my elderly parents (my dad is 94 with dementia, my mum 82) in conditions that are making my health worse, and puts a burden on them they cannot shoulder. I’m trying to raise enough to move back into my own quiet apartment and cover essential treatment costs.

Before this illness I worked in the arts and academia and was writing a historical novel set during the American Revolution that has received encouragement from scholars. I want to finish it, even though at the moment even sitting up is difficult and costs me strength I don't have. This illness stole my health, my independence, my ability to work. But it did not steal my dream.

If anyone would like to donate or share, I’d be deeply grateful.

Help me regain my life with Mecfs and write my novel