By David Tuller, DrPH
*This is a crowdfunding month at UC Berkeley. If you’d like to support my work, the link is here.
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Once again, I get into Damon’s tub
“Tub Talks with Damon” is a series hosted by Damon Jacobs, a sex-positive therapist and advocate for gay men’s and queer people’s health. And yes, doing a tub talk involves climbing into Damon’s tub–filled with warm water and bubbles–to discuss the topic at hand. Check out his channel–lots of cool tub interviews!!! I’ve done a couple of previous tub talks–here and here–in which we discussed ME/CFS and Long COVID at greater length.
This past Wednesday, Damon invited me on for a live version of Tub Talks–a first for me! We discussed my current crowdfunding campaign, and other issues. Later, he posted the video on Youtube. Thanks, Damon!
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Julie Rehmeyer on her “Modern Love” piece for The New York Times
It is hard to imagine having to cope with the aftermath of someone dying of suicide in your home. But that was the task confronting Julie Rehmeyer, a writer and longtime ME/CFS patient. Her friend, Beth Mazur, had been visiting her for five days. Beth was a dedicated advocate for people with ME/CFS and a co-founder of #MEAction, which popularized the annual “Millions Missing” campaign. For years, she kept up the fight for greater awareness and research funding. When I began crowdfunding for this project, she offered valuable help and guidance.
In the end, Beth decided it was time to leave her suffering behind. Rehmeyer recently wrote about these events for The New York Times’ popular Modern Love column. She and I spoke about why she wrote the piece, and related issues.