Living with longCOVID: One doc's experience
Early in 2020, Anne Peters, MD, caught COVID-19. The author of Medscape's"Peters on Diabetes" column was sick in March 2020 before state-mandated lockdowns, and well before there were any vaccines.
I'm not a sick person. I'm a very healthy person but COVID made me so unwell for 2 years. The brain fog and fatigue was nothing compared to the autonomic neuropathy that affected my heart. It was really limiting for me. And I still don't know the long-term implications, looking 20 to 30 years from now.I had all the symptoms of COVID, except for a cough and fever. I lost my sense of taste and smell. I had a horrible, a sore throat, and I was exhausted.
My 91-year-old dad was living in a different residential facility. Throughout COVID he had become very depressed because his social patterns had changed. Prior to COVID, they all ate together, but during the pandemic, they were unable to. He missed his social connections, disliked being isolated in his room, hated everyone in masks.
It was hard to lose my parents. I'm the only surviving child because my sister died in her 20s. It's not been an easy pandemic. But what pandemic is easy? I just happened to have lost more people than most. Ironically, my grandfather was one of the legionnaires at the Bellevue-Stratford Hotel in Philadelphia in 1976 and died of Legionnaire's disease before we knew what was causing the outbreak.COVID impacted my whole body. I lost a lot of weight.
By this point, my cardiac problems stopped me from exercising. I even went to the ER with chest pain once because I was having palpitations and chest pressure caused by simply taking my morning shower. Fortunately, I wasn't having an MI, but I certainly wasn't"normal."
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