and because of that, I was super disappointed. However, it has been marketed as a book about Myalgic Encephalomyelitis from a scientific perspective, so I expected something very very different.
It's moving, has great flow and feels genuine, courageous.
As an autobiography it is a lovely read, very well written. Through the Shadowlands will bring scientific authority to a misunderstood disease while telling an incredible and compelling story of tenacity, resourcefulness, acceptance, and love. In stunning prose, Rehmeyer describes how her illness transformed her understanding of science, medicine, and spirituality. She used her scientific savvy and investigative journalism skills to find a path to wellness and uncovered how shocking scientific neglect and misconduct had forced her, and millions of others, to go it alone. Stripped of the life she'd known and the future she'd imagined, Rehmeyer felt as though she were going to the desert to die.īut she didn't die. Leaving behind everything she owned, she drove into the desert, testing the theory that mold in her home and belongings was making her sick. They struck her as crazy but they had recovered from chronic fatigue syndrome as severe as hers. She followed the advice of strangers she'd met on the Internet. Having exhausted the plausible ideas, Rehmeyer turned to an implausible one. And she was all alone, with no one to care for her. The top specialists in the world were powerless to help, and scientific research on her disease was at a near standstill. Science journalist Julie Rehmeyer was so sick she sometimes couldn't turn over in bed.
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