Thanks Dr Speedy. What a shame Gail Porter wasn't stuck in this car (unhurt of course) instead of reaching UK's Channel 5 studio on the morning of Thursday Nov 5th.
Gail Porter decided it would be funny to use her position as a celebrity guest on Channel 5's 'The Wright Show' to sneer at the tens of thousands of people with the neurological illness Myalgic Encephalomyelitis.
She and Matthew Wright were talking about people being overweight blaming their glands. Matthew said that it was funny there are no starving people in Africa who have glandular problems. Gail replied it was a bit like the fact that there were no people suffering from ME in Africa either. She then said that no one there says "I can't go to the well, I'm knackered."
In fact studies have found the incidence of M.E. in Nigeria to be higher than in the US. There have been two major recorded outbreaks in South Africa. One, a similar incident to the Royal Free Hospital outbreak in the UK, occurred in Durban many thousands of miles away a few months earlier. In common with most outbreaks, there were possible connections with polio.
M.E. Sufferers anywhere relying on fetching well water would simply die of thirst.
Gail should be ashamed of herself. I'd swap my 21 years of living hell housebound & in intractable pain with M.E. for her alopecia in a heartbeat.
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Thanks Dr Speedy. What a shame Gail Porter wasn't stuck in this car (unhurt of course) instead of reaching UK's Channel 5 studio on the morning of Thursday Nov 5th.
Gail Porter decided it would be funny to use her position as a celebrity guest on Channel 5's 'The Wright Show' to sneer at the tens of thousands of people with the neurological illness Myalgic Encephalomyelitis.
She and Matthew Wright were talking about people being overweight blaming their glands. Matthew said that it was funny there are no starving people in Africa who have glandular problems. Gail replied it was a bit like the fact that there were no people suffering from ME in Africa either. She then said that no one
there says "I can't go to the well, I'm knackered."
In fact studies have found the incidence of M.E. in Nigeria to be higher than in
the US. There have been two major recorded outbreaks in South Africa. One, a similar incident to the Royal Free Hospital outbreak in the UK, occurred in
Durban many thousands of miles away a few months earlier. In common with most
outbreaks, there were possible connections with polio.
M.E. Sufferers anywhere relying on fetching well water would simply die of thirst.
Gail should be ashamed of herself. I'd swap my 21 years of living hell housebound & in intractable pain with M.E. for her alopecia in a heartbeat.
sounds like ms.porter went to see ricky gervais when he was touring a while ago - it was one of his 'gags'.
Please could you post a link to the ME Research UK Christmas cards Dr Speedy:
http://www.meresearch.org.uk/friends/cards.html
thank you, love Min (can't log in with my user name any more sorry)
Thanks for all the comments and the Christmas card idea .....
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