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The Doctor’s Guide to Chronic Fatigue Syndrome: Understanding, Treating and Living With CFIDS

By David S Bell, MD

This book was published in its first edition as The Disease of a Thousand Names.

Publisher: Perseus Pr
ISBN: 0201407973

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Red

By Stephanie McCarthy

“To all those courageous people struggling to win the fight against CFS, we wish you the very best. From Stephanie and Red” is the inscription Stephanie wrote in the copy of her book, Red, which she presented to the ME/CFS Society recently.

Her passion to get the message across to young people, especially in the mid-teenage bracket, the Chronic Fatigue Syndrome is an authentic illness, led her to write this, the sequel to her book “Diary Z.”

Fifteen-year-old Red lives on the West Coast of South Australia. Because of his involvement in some extraordinary events during the year he decides to write a book. Encouraged by his English teacher, who “couldn’t wait to read it,” he tells of his adventures and the situations in which he finds himself.

Red’s mate Shep has this CFS thing. Red doesn’t understand why Shep’s too sick to go to school or footy but volunteers for the Country Fire Service! His girlfriend explains to him that CFS stands for Chronic Fatigue Syndrome. “Of course,” Red says, “everyone knows that Chronic Fatigue Syndrome is a totally wanky lazy faky bludgy nothing disease.” And he is quite is disgusted.

Anyway, Shep’s parents, who are both vets, plan to go away for a week to a conference and ask Red if he would stay with Shep to care for him. Red thinks the money might just come in handy – he has his eye on a new wet suit – and so he agrees to the offer, thinking it would be a breeze...

Red is action-packed, full of adventure, suspense and surprises. From a too-close-for-comfort encounter with a great white shark, to... well, that’s for you to discover!

Red, although written in the language of a teenager, is a gripping book for readers of all ages.

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