{"id":2977,"date":"2011-05-08T21:06:41","date_gmt":"2011-05-08T19:06:41","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.blogistan.co.uk\/blog\/mt.php\/2011\/05\/08\/me-awareness-week-the-dangers-of-get"},"modified":"2025-10-07T23:15:42","modified_gmt":"2025-10-07T22:15:42","slug":"me-awareness-week-the-dangers-of-get","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.blogistan.co.uk\/blog\/mt.php\/2011\/05\/08\/me-awareness-week-the-dangers-of-get","title":{"rendered":"ME Awareness Week: the dangers of GET"},"content":{"rendered":"<blockquote><p>\nI&#39;ve seriously injured a patient &#8212; head of nursing at University of Ottawa &#8212; because she insisted on the Graded Exercise Therapy programme. We put her in the physiotherapy hospital, which is a great hospital; we put her through a two-month programme. She was ill when she went in; she&#39;s been bedridden for the fifteen years since. We did that, with her help, of course, but we did it, and I&#39;ll never get into this type of treatment again.\n<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>&#8212; Byron Hyde, Invest in ME Conference, 2007 (<a href=\"http:\/\/www.investinme.org\/International%20ME%20Conference%202007%20-%20DVD%20Orders.htm\">DVD available here<\/a>)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I&#39;ve seriously injured a patient &#8212; head of nursing at University of Ottawa &#8212; because she insisted on the Graded Exercise Therapy programme. We put her in the physiotherapy hospital, which is a great&#46;&#46;&#46;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[812],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2977","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-me"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p17bgV-M1","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.blogistan.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2977","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.blogistan.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.blogistan.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.blogistan.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/5"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.blogistan.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2977"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.blogistan.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2977\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":41446,"href":"https:\/\/www.blogistan.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2977\/revisions\/41446"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.blogistan.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2977"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.blogistan.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2977"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.blogistan.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2977"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}