Obama-Biden Transition Team Health Report

We are a small group of friends within a larger long-term online community of

citizens who share one attribute: we are all disabled, significantly ill for a

very long time, and we share the maddeningly inept diagnosis of "Chronic Fatigue

Syndrome" (CFS).

My name is Mary Schweitzer; I am the moderator. I was a tenured professor of

history before I was disabled with this disease in 1994. The members of this committee

include Karen Campbell, formerly a paralegal; Pat Fero, formerly a special education

teacher; PSB, formerly a scientist with Mitre; Carol O., formerly a teacher; Sue C.,

formerly a sociologist; Steven DuPre, formerly a teacher and athlete;

; and Meghan Shannon, formerly a nurse specialist. None of us have been able to

work in at least 12 years – Pat Fero and Meghan have been sick the longest: 27 years.

Our individual stories are appended.