Good luck to Mike Harley who is running 28 Marathons across Europe to raise Awareness and funds for Invest In ME Research. On Sunday the 17th of March he will be running the Cyprus Marathon. As always, a huge thanks from everyone in The York ME Community Mike ! See the tab […]
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Mike Harley’s EU Marathons For Invest In ME Research – Denmark
By Mike Harley. I spoke to Rebecca Hansen from the Danish ME Association ME Foreningen and severe ME patient Kamilla Thomsen. Here’s what they told me about living with ME in Denmark. For Danish translations click here Rebecca Hansen Can you give us an overview of what life is like for ME patients in […]
Mike’s EU Marathons For Invest In ME Research – Austria
AUSTRIA I’ve interviewed 3 people with ME in Austria who have given me their account of life there with the illness. How did you get ill and how were you diagnosed? Sebastian: Probably following an EBV infection at elementary school age. Sonja: I had neuroborreliosis from 2011-2014, after which I was fine for 1 year. When […]
Mike’s EU Marathons For Invest In ME Research – Malta
By Mike Harley. I made contact with the Malta ME, CFS and Fibromyalgia Alliance before flying out for number 15 of 28, here’s what they told me about life in Malta with ME. I had lots of great support from the group and they managed to get the challenge featured in Lovin Malta alongside the coverage I managed […]
Mike Harley’s 28 EU Marathons For ME Awareness
Mike’s EU Marathons for ME – Malta
Mike’s EU Marathons – Slovenia
By Mike Harley. SLOVENIA I talked to a number of patients within the only Slovenia ME/FM facebook group (500 members) about their experiences living with ME & FM in Slovenia, here’s what they told me….. How do doctors in Slovenia perceive ME? Some are professional but others are very unprofessional. The result seems […]
Mike’s EU Marathons – Amsterdam Report
From Mike Harley’s EU Marathons Website. Ahead of my trip to Amsterdam I’d made contact with a number of Dutch patient groups and associations who had all been very interested in supporting my challenge. I interviewed M.E patients Anil and Frank along with campaigner and carer Rob, click here to read what they had […]
Mike’s EU Marathons For Invest In ME Research – Vilnius (10.09.17)
By Mike Harley. Prior to flying out to Vilnius for number 12 of 28 I was contacted by a Lithuanian sports journalist working for the marathon who was keen to interview me. I thought our interview would be used on the marathon website but it actually made it into Lithuania’s main newspaper and site, […]
Mike Harley’s 26 EU Marathons For Invest In ME Research – Lithuania Sunday 10 September 2017
Mike’s EU Marathons – Luxembourg Report
Ahead of the Luxembourg Night Marathon, my good friend Juli managed to track down one of the estimated 2000 ME sufferers there. I interviewed Katja who told me about her struggle for diagnosis and what it is like for patients in the Grand Duchy, click here to read. I had some great coverage ahead of […]