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on autoimmune diseases. Correspondence to the association may be addressed to Michigan National Bank Building, 1S47S Gratiot Ave., Detroit, Mich., 48205. A patient information line is provided, at (313) 371-8600.
"What does a person do with an illness like this?” wrote Connie. "Ten years ago when I was first seeing doctors — who didn't believe in this illness [Chronic Fatigue Syndrome] — I had to have faith in myself and persist. When I got worse instead of better and friends dropped away, I took the motto of an AIDS patient as my own. When everyone else abandoned me I did not abandon myself.'
"Now, no longer bedridden but still unable to sustain much activity, I make up songs and sing them into my tape recorder. That, and I continually remind myself to focus on what 1 still can do and not on what I can no longer do.
"I wait for a cure and I thank God that I am alive."
IThe names of some members of the autoimmune support group were changed for this article.]
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