Authors & Artists

Vicki. Vicki’s blog is called “Miss Diagnoses” because she has too many diagnoses and because her Lyme disease was misdiagnosed for many years. She is a writer, a cartoonist, a professional patient, and a very silly person. Her writing and cartooning are limited by repetitive strain injury and neuropathy, but she uses assistive technology. Miss Diagnoses: Life with Multiple Ailments

Elizabeth D’Angelo. Love Warrior Visionary, painter of magic, healer of hearts, and spreader of hope – channels her creativity by maintaining an openness to play. While fighting an illness that has bound her almost entirely to her bed and bedroom for the last seven years, she transcends all boundaries by painting what she sees in flashes of insight. Elizabeth D’Angelo.

Robin Mead. I’m a Mixed Media, Water-coloring, Acrylic using Artist and Art Journaler. I Love color and use vibrant and bold colors to capture the joy in life. I believe that we all have a colorful source of imagination and joy…and this is what I try to capture and inspire within my creations…Beauty, Joy and a Zest for Life…! Robin Mead 

Ricky Buchanan: geek-creative-disabled-bedridden-internet-citizen

Lily is homebound and partially bedridden with Myalgic Encephalomyelitis and Chronic Fatigue Syndrome. If she is not here posting, she is almost certainly somewhere petting a cat.

Donni Lockridge
I was a former teacher who left public teaching to invest in my own private kindergarten, which soon became successful and sought after. Five years into it, I got a flu compounded by a cold and bronchitis. That was the beginning of the end for me. I pushed for two more years until I could stand no more. I became completely bedridden for 11 months and I’m currently 75% bedbound. I have always enjoyed painting. Soon, these images began flooding my vision. I hope that they speak for our ME/CFS community, and largely for anyone living with a chronic, limiting illness or condition.

Zeraph Dylan Moore My artwork emulates industrial decay, archaeological artifacts, and processes of geologic change. In the past several years, I’ve become disabled with a chronic illness called CFS-ME. I no longer explore a lot of abandoned buildings, and am mostly housebound. Much of my work is created in bed. For this reason, working at a small size – usually just 5” x 5” – is ideal. Dylan Moore

Teri Birch 
Teri has been living with Lyme Disease since 2007. She is the creator of the Facebook Group Social Service Connections for Lyme Disease. Learn more about Teri’s story.

  Marion Michell has M.E. & P.O.T.S., is mostly housebound and spends much of the day supine. For years she made art lying down. When her hands stopped cooperating she poured her art into writing, iPad on belly, ever so slowly, until tiny, concise feats of beauty emerged. Fact is: unless completely eviscerated by fatigue she needs to create. Even if she ponders one sentence for six hours. Pictured above: Preparation for the degree show at art college (1998). “A year later I was horizontal…” Marion’s website 
Marion’s blog 
Marion’s book 

Colleen Steckel
Colleen Steckel is Founder of the North Carolina and Ohio M.E./FM Support group on Facebook and an Advisory Committee Member at MEadvocacy
MEadvocacy
How Colleen Used the ICC to Finally Get a Diagnosis that Fit

Sakara
Sakara is sixteen years old. She has had ME since the age of five. Sakara created the Visible Illness campaign, where she uses makeup to make invisible pain visible.
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Laura Chamberlain
Laura is a writer who had to give up her career as a journalist when she became ill with ME. You can find Laura on Facebook, twitter, and on her wonderful blog Laura’s Pen.