mortgagefish

To the Military/Army ex-wife to be: Good for you. I know it hurts, but go ahead and divorce the son-of-a _____. Being deployed is no reason to cheat. He woulda done it if he was with you also - eventually - if he didn't already. Jerk.

To blueshift, especially: Wow. You really had it bad. No question about that. I hope that you are on your way to healing. I read your post today, and it really put my symptoms into perspective. I felt crappy, but once I started learning about having this disease, I realized just how bad it could get, but yours is the worst I have read about. Thankfully...

I have lost numerous jobs over the past 10 years because of 1) being so tired at work that I either had to put my head down, or 2) calling out because I was so fatigued that I felt like I was coming down with the flu or a really bad cold 3) was so over medicated due to muscle/joint/etc. pain that I actually felt asleep with my head on the desk...