Jo Best
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I may be wrong (my memory and thinking skills are in a worse phase atm) but I think that people whose ME or CFS started with glandular fever are among those most often with a relapsing and remitting course, which fits with the Leah describing glandular fever at 3 years of age as the trigger of her illness, with a fluctuating course over the years, and as people often feel at their worst before starting to feel better, it seems understandable that she was prayed for at her worst and would attribute improvement to this (I notice the journalist put "healed" in quotation marks) partly through religious belief, but possibly mostly out of gratitude and kindness towards the people who cared enough to pray for her at that time. It's probable that loved ones prayed for her many times over the years, but it's only when the prayers coincide with recovery or remission that it feels as though the prayers were answered.
I agree that, aside from any upsetting inference that religious people may make - that people aren't praying hard enough for them or wondering why their prayers for recovery aren't answered - it's good that Leah is quoted as saying, "It's a multisystem autoimmune disease – well, thought to be – which is incredibly debilitating,".
I agree that, aside from any upsetting inference that religious people may make - that people aren't praying hard enough for them or wondering why their prayers for recovery aren't answered - it's good that Leah is quoted as saying, "It's a multisystem autoimmune disease – well, thought to be – which is incredibly debilitating,".