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New Movie "A Family Man" main character has CFS

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The Hebrew Israeli fibromyalgia forum I am on just noticed that the recent Hollywood movie called "A Family Man" has a plot line where the main character's son has CFS or is it "chronic fatigue"? The man has to chose between his career or his family.

I find it odd that no one has noticed it.
Even in the trailer "chronic fatigue" gets mentioned:

 

Kalliope

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Norway
Had not heard about this movie before, so googled a bit.
According to IMBD the boy in the film got diagnosed with cancer..
But my oh my how wonderful it would be with a movie like this featuring ME! One day.. :woot:

From IMBD:
As the boss of a Chicago-based headhunter, Dane Jensen , who works at the Blackrock Recruiting agency arranging jobs for engineers, prepares to retire, Jensen vies to achieve his longtime goal of taking over the company going head-to-head with his ambitious rival, Lynn Vogel . However, Dane's 10-year-old son, Ryan , is suddenly diagnosed with cancer and his professional priorities at work and personal priorities at home begin to clash with one another.
 

Daffodil

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wow amazing. I cant believe they actually mentioned CFS in a major motion picture.

the doctor did say the son has chronic fatigue and maybe later, cancer?