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Compassion is what we need more of.

My attempt at the "Smile on Saturday" theme "blue for you - ME 2022"

 

On May 12 it's ME/CFS and Fibromyalgia International Awareness Day.

M.E. Awareness Week was established by patient advocates and is focused on May 12th, the birthday of Florence Nightingale, who was believed to have suffered with M.E.

From 1857 Nightingale found herself often disabled by poor health, which some suggest may well have been Chronic Fatigue Syndrome(CFS).

As a result, Nightingale now has been adopted as a kind of patron saint for this under-studied disease.

CFS sufferers commemorate her birthday as a kind of rallying point; their own lamp in the dark.

 

Shot with an Agfa "Color-Agolon 90 mm F 2.5" (projection) lens on a Canon EOS R5.

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Uploaded on May 5, 2022
Taken on May 5, 2022