chronic fatigue

Mardy's note:  I'm copying this from the original Fibromyalgia Awareness Day 2010 Forum about two months after the 'big day' and tweeking the original title just a bit (to formalize it a bit more), because I wanted it to be easily found on Lumigrate.com (and I also copied it to Deirdre Rawlings Forum, as she was kind enough to do the interview while our podcasting studio was being constructed (and naturally behind schedule).  When Deirdre and I batted the idea around of what to do for this collaboration, I wanted it to seem very informal and appealing to the public with fibro  read more »

In the first year of Lumigrate.com being on the Internet, the Your Story 'topic' within the general Fibromyalgia Forum, where I initially placed it on the 2009 Fibromyalgia Awareness Day due to so many people wanting to share their stories, had over 800 reads!  Considering I've intentionally kept the people who know about Lumigrate kind of 'to ourselves' in order to provide time for close friendships of other people with it and networks professionally to develop, that let me know that it's an area that is deserving of it's own Forum.  For 2010's Awareness, we'll hope to 'open  read more »

Hi everyone, my name is Marylee LaBaw and I'm an associate with USANA Health Sciences.   read more »

Mardy's kicking off "Cut and Paste Thought of the Day for FMS/CFS Awareness Campaign, 2010 from Lumigrate today. 

This was a suggestion by Grate Group gal Cherie related to the upcoming fibromyalgia and chronic fatigue awarness campaign for 2010, to have a 'Cut and Paste Thought of the Day', which I'd put the word out on last week.   read more »

I've been working on a blog about why Grand Junction is the destination tomorrow of President Obama, and there is quite a lot going on here which I want to include on Lumigrate since we're located in Grand Junction and have had the pleasure of interacting with many of the companies and people involved in the interesting story of how the health care here is worth his examining.  In years past, those efforts were scrutinized and criticized and stood the tests of the legal system and time ...  read more »

This was a blog from the fall of 2009 which is transferred here FYI.......

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Whether meeting someone in person or on the internet through facebook, I am having to answer this question a lot lately.  Which is great because it means people are finding out about us  and are interested.  Certainly, I refer people to look at Lumigrate.com's 'About Us' section (link below if you want to read later).  We have free information --- the blogs are packed with links to VALID sources to learn more about topics you are interested in and we think are important.  I get included in a lot of interesting information exchanges and have my  read more »

This week in the United States, many of us are tuned into PBS (Public Broadcasting System) for a new documentary series by Ken Burns, titled 'The National Parks: America's Best Idea'.   The National Park Service (NPS) is partially responsible for your reading these words right now, because as a 24 year old I was hired to assist a "seasoned" researcher the NPS had just harvested from the Environmental Protection Agency.  "Wild Bill" Malm had just turned 40 and I was recommended to him because of my previous work with a similar project an  read more »

Many of our current followers are looking here for information specifically about fibromyalgia and related conditions and symptoms.  Since Lumigrate's key concepts are to provide information which is  read more »