We place an enormous amount of trust in our bodies everyday. Long COVID is one of the numerous ways in which our bodies betray that trust.
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A Champion of Breakfast
Long COVID messed with my taste buds, but after 14 months, I’ve finally been able to eat my “normal” breakfast again.
In This Moment
I have been sick for 14 months or 402 days or 578,880 minutes. It is a long journey. It is a hard journey. Yet, unlike too many other chronic diseases, there is an assumption that the disease will end one day and I will return to my pre-disease “normal.” For me, it did not endContinue reading “In This Moment”
Hope 2
I ignored, or rather, I was distracted at the time of my one-year anniversary of Long COVID (start: November 2023). It was a long and hard year where I spent an immense amount of energy focused on interpreting, diagnosis, and understanding my health on a daily basis. I have learned much about the body, theContinue reading “Hope 2”
Post-Illness Syndromes
Long COVID is not the only post-illness syndrome out there. So why don’t we know more about them?
Hope
Optimism vs. pessimism vs. realism. Each creates its own emotional rollercoaster.
Carolyn Ristau 