It’s so wild to hear that people don’t know this.

I:

• Fainted while watching TV on the couch.
• Had a blood pressure of 80/40.
• Have been to the ER twice.
• Had long-running (over two years) chest pain, heart pounding, weight loss, vision differences, dizziness, shortness of breath.
• Was so sick with those issues I was bed bound for months.
• After I started feeling a little better, overdid it and put myself back to bed for a week. Twice. With easy shit like rearranging the canned goods cabinet.
• Lost a tooth. (White lie, actually. I’m scheduled to have it extracted early February.)
• Still have lingering heart pounding and dizziness on a not-infrequent basis.

All from covid.

I’m fortunate to be mostly recovered. It sucks that there are so many who haven’t recovered to speak of.

People look at me strangely, but I don’t go in anywhere without a mask, still. I don’t eat in restaurants, I don’t go to indoor family gatherings without a mask.

It’s a big sacrifice but I’m not willing to live with long COVID and brain fog.