Ep 49 - Tell M.E. In Wrestling

NEW EPISODE!

This week: Tell M.E. In Wrestling!

*CW and TW at the beginning of the episode*

In honour of M.E. Awareness week (9th-15th May), we talk about Phil’s experience of living with the condition, featuring a miserable medical history, a poetry triple threat, Carl becomes a Quack and some (ha!) Wrestling about kayfabe and CM Punk 

Chapters

• 0:00 Phil’s Intro, CW and TW
• 1:38 Full Intro
• 3:38 It’s All About M.E.
• 11:29 What should M.E. really be called?
• 18:53 Phil’s poem
• 19:51 Dan’s better poem
• 23:08 How Phil Got Ill, part 2 - ‘Glandular Fever’
• 33:04 How Phil Got Ill, part 3 - ‘Pneumonia’
• 39:33 A difficult diagnosis
• 47:47 How Phil Got Ill, part 1 - ‘Lyme Disease’
• 51:32 M.E. symptoms
• 52:56 Pain
• 53:49 Carl’s painful poem
• 1:00:29 Different experiences
• 1:02:55 Post Exertional Malaise (PEM)
• 1:10:02 Being chronically ill is a full time job
• 1:11:27 Cognitive Dysfunction
• 1:16:14 Medical Gaslighting
• 1:20:22 Kayfabe/CM Punk