PETITION MAJOR MEDIA OUTLETS TO DO A FEATURE ON ME/CFS

My daughter has ME/CFS

Please 60 minutes, this is a huge story

I have had an enormous impact on my life for the last 34 years due to ME. We desperately need help!

Please hear our voices and help educate the public about this debilitating disease. We are the "Millions Missing" from normal life.

Thank you for fighting for us with ME/cfs

ME/CFS is a world wide problem. I hope you will include this devastating disease in your program. Thank you.

CFS (Chronic Fatigue Syndrome) has existed for decades! Hundreds of thousands of people have been suffering by CFS yet ignored and abandoned by the healthcare professionals and researchers! Hopefully Covid-19 will wake up some of these people with power to end suffering of a forgotten community.

I have been thankful for 60 Minutes many times during my adult life for daring to investigate controversial subjects. For being one of the few places one can still count on for true journalistic integrity. Because of this, I would ask you to consider probing the extreme health crisis that has been in our midst for decades: Myalgic Encephalomyelitis. Since 2015 the stigma of having M.E. has shifted, but only slightly. With the appearance of "Long Hauler" Covid 19 patients, headlines proclaim there's never been anything like this. And yet, this is almost exactly what people with M.E. have experienced: a sudden-onset severe illness descends; but, instead of recovering, M.E. patients remain extremely ill. We may not know if Covid 19 patient's lives will be affected beyond a few months (and we hope not for their sakes!); but, their severe symptoms would have to persist for years - for decades - to be in the same category as M.E. Sadly, I know this from first hand experience, having just passed the 20th anniversary of being sick with M.E. How grateful I - and millions of others - would be if the 60 Minutes team would be willing to turn their considerable intellect, talent, and stellar investigative skills to bringing attention to the crisis which is M.E. With sincere thanks for your consideration - - Kandice L. Dickinson Former opera singer, music teacher, ardent gardener and active member of society until 10 December 2000 (the 170th anniversary of my cousin Emily Dickinson's birth) when I came down with a severe flu-like illness, later diagnosed as Myalgic Encepalomyelitis, from which I have never recovered, and which has left me mostly house and often bed-bound with continuing severe flu-like symptoms.

Please learn about and shine a spotlight on ME/CFS.

ME/CFS has stolen the last 18 years of my life, and I am still young. More awareness needs raised about this life altering disease. Please speak out for a community that is in need of better research and awareness. We are hurting and have mostly been swept behind the curtain and ignored. It is time to change that.

My granddaughter suffers with this. The best they seem to be able to do is learning how to coup.

I suffer from ME and found the 60 minutes coverage of long covid to be highly insensitive to those who have suffered from post viral illness for decades.

Thank you

long forgotten

Our lives have been shattered. We have lost who we once were and are slowly relegated to the shadows. There is no aspect of our daily life that has not been impacted. Yet, even some doctors tell us we are making it up, and cannot help us. We did not choose to lose everything good health provides. Given half a chance, we would recover and live out our lives free of pain and isolation.

Please feature ME/CFS in an upcoming episode of 60 minutes. It is long overdue to bring this patient population out of the darkness and into the light, have some validation and recognition. Thank you for your time.

Long overdue...this is an opportunity to connect two very important related Diseases into a massive inquiry and research leading to viable treatment and possibly a cure. I know first-hand the damage that ME/CFS does to the lives of people affected by this insidious disease as my daughter has suffered the results of it for many years. A true stolen life.

Chronic Fatigue is just one symptom of Myalgic Encephalomyelitis. It is physically debilitating. Patients with this illness aren't taken seriously, because they often appear healthy. Please throw a spotlight on their condition, so as to educate everyone around them.

Living with ME/CFS is torture. Like having a bad flu 24/7 year after year, never letting up. Imagine. What Covid longhaulers are now experiencing WE have lived with for decades. Millions Missing.

It’s downright pathetic how this illness continues to get ignored. This petition does not ask for much for these people just recognition.