My Battle with Chronic Fatigue Syndrome

By Beckie Butcher

As a former CFS sufferer and current healthcare practitioner, I feel Ms. Butcher provides an informative and interesting perspective on this disease and her road to recovery.
Kyrie Kleinfelter,D.C.,
Upper Cervical Chiropractor. As a fellow sufferer of CFS, I was truly able to relate to Ms. Butchers experiences, thoughts and feelings. Her reference to the Word of God comforted my heart. Truly inspiring and honest.
Darla Canney,
CFS Patient.

Ms. Butcher shares her intense and emotional journey of how the autoimmune disease chronic fatigue syndrome impacted her life from her first symptoms to the progress of her treatment and physical, spiritual and emotional recovery.

By sharing with others, she hopes to inspire others to seek help so they may lead better lives as well. She wants them to know there is hope.

• Language: English
• Publisher: iUniverse
• Release date: Mar 13, 2012
• ISBN: 9781469773797

Beckie Butcher

Ms. Butcher worked as a Lab Technician in various hospitals and laboratories. She is an avid cook when she feels up to it, and in 2005 she published a small cookbook. Ms. Butcher lives in her hometown of Elgin, Il.

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Contents

ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS

INTRODUCTION

MY LIFE BEFORE CHRONIC FATIGUE SYNDROME

THE MOMENT OF TRUTH:

THE DIAGNOSIS

HOPE FOR THE FUTURE

THE DAY MY LIFE CHANGED

HOPE FOR THE FUTURE THROUGH GOD AND

THROUGH JESUS.

SOME FINAL THOUGHTS

CONCLUSION

MY BATTLE

WITH CHRONIC

FATIGUE SYNDROME

Scripture taken from the Holy Bible, New International Version ®, NIV ®. Copyright © 1973,1978, 1984, 2011 by Biblica, Inc.™ Used by permission of Zondervan. All rights reserved worldwide.

www.zondervan.com.The NIV and New International Version are trademarks registered in the United States Patent and Trademark Office by Biblica, Inc.™

Note: this book is based on my experience with Chronic Fatigue Syndrome and mine only. In no way am I speaking for anybody else.

My true emotions are in my writing, and are in no way meant to be offensive.

They’re just that, my own feelings and my own emotions based on my own experience.

ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS

To my many wonderful friends who have stuck with me through the good times and the bad times. I don’t know where I would be today without your love and support.

To CTA, Inc. Publishing Company for their permission to use inspirational material from the book, Facing Illness with Hope: Leaning on Jesus, by Reverend Tim Wesemann. Copyright © 2009 by CTA, Inc. Publishing Company. All rights to Reverend Wesemanns’ book are reserved to CTA, Inc.

To Science Daily ®.

Copyright © 1995-2010

Science Daily LLC.

All rights reserved.

To Deb Jenson for sharing her gift of editing.

To Teresa Speranza, for helping me stay focused and positive.

To Darla Canney, for putting a smile on my face even on my darkest days.

To my minister, Pastor John Nelson for his compassion and his listening ear and to his wife, Pastor Martha Nelson who saved my spiritual life. God Bless you both and thank you for all you’ve done.

To the CFIDS Association of America, for all of their good work.

To Jody Jaynes, who referred me to Dr. Kyrie Kleinfelter, my healing salvation.

To Dr. Kyrie Kleinfelter, who has helped me tremendously with her gift of healing. I would also like to thank her for her love and support throughout my darkest times.

To Laura Dion Jones and her staff for letting me spread the word