CORONAVIRUS OP-ED: Living with Covid-19 infection is weird as hell By Robin Gorna RobinGorna
The exhaustion was overwhelming, combined with not eating, it was glaringly obvious that this was no psychosomatic reaction to knowing that local risk levels were so elevated. Known for my high levels of energy and hearty appetite, the next day fatigue had me stranded on the couch for hours at a time, simply unable to muster the will or skill to get up.The fridge is a short four-metre walk, but I could find no reason or energy to go to it.
Friends on four continents now get regular photos of Ollie’s readings – kinder at the start than spluttering in their ears, now easier than listing confusing symptoms, which still regularly include dizzy, light-headed, brain fog. Eventually, three days later, a surgery nearby signed me up and the GP phoned late on a Friday afternoon. We had a great chat: she was just back to work after four weeks off with her own Covid-19 .She shared great advice from her own experiences as well as her clinical wisdom. Like my band of medical mates around the world, she gave strict instructions to monitor my fever and oxygen saturation levels and reach for an ambulance if either headed in the wrong direction.
My Facebook feed is full of friends spending £70 to get antibody tests done privately. That same feed is increasingly littered with stories from other people – many medical or working in public health – telling their tales of the bitter sting in the Covid-19 tail.
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