Category: Julie Rehmeyer
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Some Things I’ve Read Recently…
Julie Rehmeyer explores a friend’s death in New York Times’ Modern Love column 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 who has eloquently explored her illness in a book…
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Three Blogs–Julie Rehmeyer on Beth Mazur’s Death; Whitney Dafoe on Real Life; Elke Hausmann on Exercise and “The Salt Path”
Two years ago, Beth Mazur, who co-founded #MEAction and spent years advocating for better care and more research, committed suicide during a stay with her close friend and fellow person with ME, Julie Rehmeyer. It is hard to imagine what feels unimaginable—the shock and pain of finding the body of someone you love in their…