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This is an essay about me:
I have spent so many years learning how to write essays, adorned with quotes, footnotes and bibliography and styled in a fashion suitable to courses taken
at the university levels that it is something of a wrench to write on a personal level. (I use the telephone far too much). Nevertheless, if I am to show how the
Chronic Fatigue Syndrome (CFS), also known as Myalgic Encephalitis (ME), has changed my life, this is how it must be done. Fortunately, the year
preceding my illness was such a particularly distinctive period in our family that recalling the details is much easier than it might otherwise have been. So this
is where it starts: how I was, what I became, and finally the way things are.
Christmas 1985; our younger son, G., and his girlfriend SJ, both students at Waterloo, join us for our secular celebrations. G's gift to SJ is an
engagement ring and an uncharacteristically halting marriage proposal. SJ just squealed her acceptance and it was eventually settled that they would
marry the following summer.
SJ is/was Malaysian Chinese; her two younger brothers were, at that time, students at other North American Universities whilst her two sisters, were
both back home with the parents. It was left up to us, therefore, to take care of the wedding arrangements.
Being irreligious, a church affair with clerical officiation was quite out of the question; we decided to hold the wedding in a city park flower garden,
and the reception in our own back garden. SJ wanted a traditional Chinese red wedding dress so her mother arranged to have it made in Malaysia,
which was one problem less. Her mother also took over the wedding invitations, having them printed in both official languages (English & Chinese!).
Once the date was settled, I got busy; booking the park and date, finding a JP, spending hours with immigration, (for SJ was still on a...