2025 Introduction
Sep. 29th, 2025 11:19 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
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nacramamoHello! I am your very exhausted moderator, and I am shamelessly mostly recycling my intro message from previous years:
I'm a Domestic Goddess (if you have to manage 5 different diets and preferences and still manage to eat mostly the same meal, you ARE a goddess!), and parent to nearly 14-year-old-twins. I've been dealing with ME/CFS (finally diagnosed in January 2025) for the past 30 months. In the past I've done a lot of beading and cross stitch, but the illness makes that harder these days and I can only do them in short bursts. What I do most lately is rescue second hand yarn, wash it, wind it up, and make things with it, most recently an uncounted number of loom-knitted baby hats for an NP organization and other loom knitted items, such as kerchiefs, bookmarks, and axolotls. Latch hook rugs also work for me wonderfully when my brain doesn't work fully. My now-medicated brain allowed me to finish a small needlepoint project recently that I couldn't focus on last year, so maybe I'll get some more stitching done. I picked up a couple of small cross stitch projects to work on, to see if my brain can mange cross stitch again.
I'm looking forward to hearing from you!
I'm a Domestic Goddess (if you have to manage 5 different diets and preferences and still manage to eat mostly the same meal, you ARE a goddess!), and parent to nearly 14-year-old-twins. I've been dealing with ME/CFS (finally diagnosed in January 2025) for the past 30 months. In the past I've done a lot of beading and cross stitch, but the illness makes that harder these days and I can only do them in short bursts. What I do most lately is rescue second hand yarn, wash it, wind it up, and make things with it, most recently an uncounted number of loom-knitted baby hats for an NP organization and other loom knitted items, such as kerchiefs, bookmarks, and axolotls. Latch hook rugs also work for me wonderfully when my brain doesn't work fully. My now-medicated brain allowed me to finish a small needlepoint project recently that I couldn't focus on last year, so maybe I'll get some more stitching done. I picked up a couple of small cross stitch projects to work on, to see if my brain can mange cross stitch again.
I'm looking forward to hearing from you!
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Date: 2025-09-30 09:11 am (UTC)Thanks for organizing this for us here on Dw!
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Date: 2025-09-30 11:58 pm (UTC)Yeah! It's felt like I'm out here just me, and I know it's not true. I have tried to find an online ME/CFS community, but they all seemed so fractured.
Happy to have you all here on DW!
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Date: 2025-09-30 11:09 am (UTC)I'm so glad you finally got a diagnosis. It's so frustrating and I hope you're getting the attention you need.
I can't believe twins are teenagers :-D
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Date: 2025-10-01 12:01 am (UTC)It took so long for the Dx, my GP didn't want to to it. I got really lucky, and ended up not having to wait forever to get into one of the local ME/CFS clinics. trying to get the meds right seems to be so trial-and error, though.
The twins hit that teenager milestone LAST year. I can't believe it, either!