About my covid and recovery.
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It's been about 3 weeks since my last post and I felt it's time for another update. I've been trying to keep things mostly positive, partly for me but probably mostly for other people, and this time I've decided to be a bit more open about some of my struggles as I just need to vent them out a bit...
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Today marks 3 months that I've been ill so I am now officially a long covid sufferer. What does that mean? Not too much besides being ill for 3 months now makes me eligible to go on a waiting list for help from a specialist Covid clinic. There's no magic cures that will come from that but there may be some help...
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Today marks 3 months that I've been ill so I am now officially a long covid sufferer. What does that mean? Not too much besides being ill for 3 months now makes me eligible to go on a waiting list for help from a specialist Covid clinic. There's no magic cures that will come from that but there may be some help...
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It's been a little over 2 months since I caught Covid. I've stopped counting the weeks and just counting down towards 19th September which marks 3 months and is when my GP can refer me on to a waiting list for a long Covid clinic and possibly some help. For the time being I'm just on my own trying to figure things out...
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It's been a few weeks since my last post and just over 7 since I caught Covid. I would say things are progressing well and I'm recovering slowly. My list of symptoms is smaller and usually more consistent which is helpful for trying to plan around my fatigue more which is great. Apparently most symptoms are based off of the fatigue for most people so the better I can deal with that the better I will feel overall...
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Wednesday and Thursday were I mostly felt were going well and I was starting to get a better handle on how to manage myself better. They were my only 3 hour work days (split over 4 or 5 sessions) in almost 3 weeks and on the Thursday I had a 5-10 minute walk picking up Kacey from school and then made some pasta and tomato sauce for tea that totalled 25-30 minutes of standing without breaks which again was the most in almost 3 weeks...
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Just a slight heads up, I'm suffering with brain fog. Writing can be ok most of the time as long as I don't try to think too much. Reading is probably the hardest task for me to do so I won't be reading back through this to see how things make sense and there may well be more spelling mistakes than usual...