Our Story Must Be Told Too
OUR STORY MUST BE TOLD TOO Greg Crowhurst, January 2024 I am unsettled, as many are, by the terrible injustice experienced by the Post Office staff and their long fight for justice, mostly invisible and unheard, for two decades. As I watched ITV’s “Mr Bates versus the Post Office” it awoke all the pain and despair of the decades of denial and neglect we have suffered and continue to suffer, since my wife was diagnosed with Myalgic Encephalomyelitis (ME). Just over three decades ago, newly married, my wife’s health deteriorated so badly that she rapidly became house and bed bound, paralysed repeatedly, in unimaginable agony. Yet rather than appropriate medical support, validation, full investigation and treatment, doctors “believed” there was nothing much the matter with her, leaving us for decades to get on with the ruins of our life, desperately moving across the country to seek medical help and understanding that was just not there. The losses, we and numerous others have exper