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Wed, 09/04/2008 - 9:14pm — Amy

Hey everyone!

Sorry I haven't been posting for awhile, I've been very busy with uni!!!

Classes are good, lots of info to take in at once, I'm sure I'm not the only one here who has trouble taking in info when it's being thrown at you from all sides!!

Anyway, I was just wondering what uni other people here go to... is anyone else at UNSW like me? Would be great to see other people at uni with ME/CFS and/or Fibromyalgia.... not exactly like we can be spotted in a crowd, is it?? Sticking out tongue

Hope everyone's going ok!

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Thu, 10/04/2008 - 7:11pm — DJ

Good to hear from you Amy

Good to hear from you Amy and glad that uni is going well for you. Yes it is a lot to take in isn't it? You're studying social work aren't you from memory.
With getting to meet others with CFS/FMS etc who attend uni as well could you talk with your Disability Officer and see if they can pass your details onto other students with CFS/FMS who can then contact you. I feel a good idea would be if they set up a bulletin board (I know uni's have websites accessible just for students of a particular subject so could do the same elsewhere) just for students with disabilities to enable them to chat on line/forum and lead to informal meet ups.
Good luck with it all and cheers DJ

Thu, 10/04/2008 - 7:17pm — DJ

I'm having a lot of

I'm having a lot of struggles with uni and feeling a little down at the moment. The assignment/academic side is going well but work is very on and off so money is tighter and work is due to end in just over 2 months and work hasn't advised us whether our contracts will be extended for another year nor has indicated when they can advise us. So I've been applying for PT jobs and FT jobs asking for a PT arrangment but not much around.
What's particularly hard was I had a good friend and we had a 3rd friend and over the long uni break she didn't make any effort to contact me or reply to my emails yet kept in regular contact with the other friend, visits and so forth. And since starting back she's been very odd to me but very cliquey with the other person. Also made some discouraging comments about it being hard to get work and perhaps I'm meant to be concentrating on uni (I need a money tree in that case as I have no other means of income to live off without working) So it's been a rather lonely place.
Deferring and a break will probably do me good plus make it easier to line up new work as there won't be times when I'm not available due to uni and then eventually sort out a flexible arrangment for returning to uni.

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