March 20, 2024. I’ve been reading anecdotal Covid related posts since 2020 and they don’t seem to be getting any milder or better. I can’t imagine where we’ll be in just a few years from now. 🤷♂️ It’s a slow outta-control COVID train wreck that no one wants to talk about…
@Brad
This is horrifyingly true. A LOT of us (Long Haulers) are unable to work, care for ourselves, or function in anything close to our former capacity.
And then we are charged with managing our own care, finding some way to pay for the extra expenses while unable to work, and continuing all the tasks needed for normal daily life (cooking, cleaning, shopping, etc.) during our illness.
It is a public health disaster. With basically zero precautions in place, there is no end in sight.
I cannot tell you how many times I have asked myself whether I'm just not able to live independently anymore
But you develop ways of coping. One of the first things I did, on one of the first days that I could drag myself out of bed a little bit, was to paint bright nail polish marks on the control knobs for my heaters, so I could look from across the room and double triple quadruple check whether I had turned the heat off
Because I couldn't tell just by looking at which way the pointer was oriented, even by confirming with touch. I needed something very very obvious, in order to comprehend the position of the knob
And you go through worse times and better times, and worse days and better days, as far as brain function. You learn to save the decisions, and the riskier jobs, for the better times
Someone I work closely with is just a couple weeks past her first infection. She was apologizing for her brain today. I told her I think this is the future. I think we are all going to have brain fog, and we just need to support each other, and understand each other
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