i'm emma donohoe, and i was diagnosed with me at 19. at its worst, it left me bedbound.t after five years of recovery and feeling much better than i did. i am finding out what life is like for other me sufferers. they don't believe you. you are fighting an illness, but then you are fighting every health professional. i'll visit the labs at the forefront of research, who are trying to find a breakthrough to make life better for those living with this hugely debilitating condition. she still never gave up hope, she never ever gave up hope. # hey you, don't help them to bury the light... the day this video was shot was the last time i felt well. this was my greatest passion. i dreamt of a life of dance, but it wasn't meant to be. when i was 17, i was diagnosed with glandular fever. it then turned into something called post—viralfatigue, which, because at the time i just kept pushing and pushing my body, it eventually led to something called me. the way i describe it to my friends, imagine you had the flu, and then imagine you had the worst hangover of your life at the same

me sufferer emma donohoe investigates how young people cope with the debilitating illness.oon and welcome to bbc news. you are welcome to dublin castle where votes are being collated across the country on this historic day as a result of a referendum on abortion "in. we are not expecting the official result for a number of hours, but there have been two significant exit polls that have been predicting a landslide victory for the yes campaign, that is the campaign that was working to repeal the language that was written into the language that was written into the constitution that gave the same rights to the unborn as to the mother. leo varadkar has said it is a resounding victory for the country, but no campaign has conceded defeat. whether this campaign would be able to change that language was up for question. let's hear more from my colleague emma vardy. more emphatically than anyone predicted, ireland has voted for change. exit polls indicated a landslide in favour of repealing the controversial law which has restricted access to abortion for so long. i am in shock. we

as current treatments for me are being reviewed, emma donohoe investigates how young people cope with debilitating illness. good afternoon and welcome to bbc news. a man's been killed after storms caused flash flooding across the west midlands with more than a month's rainfall hitting parts of birmingham yesterday in the space ofjust an hour. the man a pensioner in his 80s died in walsall, after his vehicle became submerged. met office amber weather warnings for rain and thunderstorms are in place this afternoon for east anglia, london and the south east and the south west. the south east could also experience the hottest day of the year so far. our correspondent caroline davies reports from walsall. now it is quite a sunny day but it would have been a very different scene yesterday. behind me you might be able to see a wooden gate over there. according to an eyewitness that we spoke to, this is where the water that flooded the bridge came out. if you follow that road down, you will see the railway bridge. that was the spot where this gentleman was caught in his car and where he later

let‘s talk now to the programme‘s presenter emma donohoe who was diagnosed with me five years ago, andially i was bedbound, i was then something i call sofa bound, which led to me being housebound. 0ver timei led to me being housebound. 0ver time i have gradually been able to recover some of my health, but it destroyed my health, put simply. what are you particularly trying to find or to prove about any? in our research at the london school of hygiene and tropical medicine, we are trying to look at the immune system, which means the defence syste m system, which means the defence system of the body, and some energy production in the body which seems to be impaired in people with emmy. it used to be, viewers will remember it, it used to be called yuppie flu, do you think there is a much better at acceptance of what it is and how it affects people, or are there still issues? i think we are moving in the right direction, i think we still have a long way to go, but i think there is more understanding now through some people. everybody seems to know somebody with emmy, a family friend or fa