Leslie’s LongCovid symptoms were misdiagnosed as grief after her partner’s death from the disease. Read how contributing to scientific research gives her hope & purpose ❤️🩹
“Grief,” the doctor said. “You’ve been through so much.”
I’m grateful to be a part of the study, but it doesn’t provide any treatment and certainly no cure. And it doesn’t help with my symptoms. The worst part is the brain fog, followed by the joint pain and the fatigue. I have off and on gut issues and my eyesight is getting worse, which may be yet another side effect of long Covid. All of these issues contribute to my inability to do basic tasks as quickly and confidently as I used to do them. My productivity has plummeted.
It was a presumptuous and unprofessional thing to say to me. But it made quite an impact. By the time we had to make the difficult decision to take Richard off of life support, there was really no other choice to make. His body had been destroyed. But the doctor’s words echoed in my mind: “I really don’t think he’d want to live that way …”
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