Encounters With the Invisible: Unseen Illness, Controversy, And Chronic Fatigue Syndrome

"An important investigation of a little-understood illness with much to teach doctors and patients alike. General readers will find her personal story compelling as well as beautifully told."â€"Lynne Sharon Schwartz, author of The Fatigue Artist

"Carefully researched and documented, Encounters with the Invisible takes the reader on a sweeping journey of a life, although the story rarely leaves Ms. Wall's bedroom."â€"K. Kimberly McCleary, President, Chronic Fatigue and Immune Dysfunction Syndrome Association of America

Blending personal drama with literary reflection, reportage, and medical history, Dorothy Wall illuminates the conflicts and controversies surrounding Chronic Fatigue Syndrome and graphically depicts the way a virus resculpts a life.