NASIM MARIE JAFRY: ON WRITING, READING and CHRONIC ILLNESS

‘Can there exist, in principle, a proper beginning to any story at all? Isn’t there always, without exception, a latent beginning-before-the-beginning?’ Amos Oz

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Saturday, 27 April 2013

Too much lactic acid in her legs

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In my novel, the main character Helen Fleet has a series of sarcastic/humorous exchanges with a stranger. Describing how she feels after t...

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Tuesday, 4 December 2012

We could send letters

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The title of this post is from one of my favourite Aztec Camera songs and it reminds me very much of when I first got ill, when ME punched...

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Thursday, 21 July 2011

Will adopting the Canadian criteria improve the diagnosis of ME?

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All of us with ME - the neuro-immune illness myalgic encephalomyelitis - want the Canadian Clinical Guidelines to be universally adopted, s...

Wednesday, 4 May 2011

Funking up illness with an umlaut

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So BACME (British Association of CFS/ME) have finally launched their website and are looking for feedback. I'm immediately alarmed ...

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Thursday, 4 November 2010

The blinkered ones keep their blinkers on

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Just saw that the blinkered ones - also known as the National Institute of Clinical Excellence - are at it again. I really don't have...

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nmj: Scotland, United Kingdom; My autobiographical novel The State of Me was published in 2008 by HarperCollins. Based on my experience of the neuroimmune illness myalgic encephalomyelitis (ME), it's my weapon against the ignorance that prevails. I was diagnosed with ME in 1984 by a consultant neurologist after Coxsackie B4 virus. I remain ill today. I've been published in a range of literary magazines and was shortlisted for RLS Award (2005), Bridport Short Story Prize 2011 and Bridport Flash Fiction Prize 2012 & 2023. Links to more published writing below. In slow process of writing novella about my late Pakistani doctor father. Am of mixed heritage.

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