Your Jaw Never Gets Tired

About

My name is Anne and I used to live in Glasgow, Scotland.
Married. No kids.

I have had ME for a long time – at least 30 years or more. Maybe even since the late 80’s.
Worked full-time in the financial sector (Life Assurance, Pensions, Compliance work re Financial Advice) for 20 years then part-time with a telecoms company for around 4 years. Had to give up these jobs because of my ME.  After a break (and finally accepting I was no use to any employer with the limits of ME) I got into property in 2004 and became a Landlady renting out flats in Glasgow.  The plan was to build up then sell one from time to time. To create a salary for me. But that was before the credit crunch and recession came along.

My health deteriorated into Severe ME around 2014.

Everything has been a huge struggle at times – and has involved taking a lot of risk, eg. remortgaging the house, borrowing lots of money.  It was interesting though.
The risk of doing nothing seemed more scary to me.  I wasn’t employable with my ME and I was told I could get no financial help at all . (My GPs view then back in 2003 was similar to ATOS now in 2012.)  And I wasn’t well enough to challenge this.  Though I had the full support of my husband (and luckily still do) I had always made my own way before meeting him, and had worked and saved hard to buy my own home etc.

Day to day life with ME and property was stressful and exhausting – and has got worse with the challenges of the last few years. (This was probably written around 2012.)  And sometimes I wonder – did I make the right choice. But there was really no other choice I could see at the time. On bad days (and there have been many) I have often felt like giving up.  *But I can’t.
It was my choice to get into property after all .

So I have decided to start up a blog – mainly to de-stress and have a good moan and/or rant.   And if anybody wants to read it that would be good. But if not – I’m doing it anyway!  Just for me.

NB. Nothing I say should be taken as financial, legal or medical advice.

*I was later forced to give everything up in 2014 because my health became so poor. And I deteriorated into Severe ME.