Long Covid Relapses or when you’re tired of being tired

I'm not really sure what this post is going to be about, but you can probably tell that I'm tired. After what I thought were several months of improvement in Long Covid conditions, bam! Relapse. An unbearable fatigue has settled on my body. My throat is newly sore. My back hurts. Deep sleep isn't as …

More Awareness is needed about Long Covid

If I have another person tell me how Covid19 is nothing more than a 'mild' infection, I will lose it. Yeah, I had a 'mild' infection, and then I've had nearly 5 months of the worst health of my life, the most frightening symptoms and a bug that keeps showing up in new and inventive …

Trying to Find the Silver Lining in Long Covid

This post took a little while to write, because it's difficult to think I could ever possibly find a positive aspect to having Long Covid. Certainly between the months of January through April, I would have scoffed, possibly snapped at you, has you suggested it to me. Furthermore, it's important to acknowledge the millions of …

Chronic Fatigue: What can be done to help those who are too tired.

Not to brag, but I've been seeing a lot of doctors lately. Indeed, since January 2022, I've been to the emergency room three times, I've had over 250 blood tests, 2 CT scans, 2 sets of X-rays, 2 MRIs, countless urine analysis, full panel of cardiology tests, pulmonary tests, stress tests, cardio-pulmonary tests, two neurological …

Emotional Blunting from Anti-Depressants

If you are experiencing Long Covid, your family doctor may have advised that you go on anti-depressants. I certainly know that when Long Covid first hit me in January, and then like an atom bomb in February, I was crying several times a day - and when I lost nearly 15lbs seemingly overnight, I could …

Medical Gaslighting of Women with Long Covid

Coming up on four months of Long Covid has been an eye opening experience, navigating Ontario's multiple health platforms, hospital networks and doctors. My conclusion has been that Ontario is not equipped to handle the upcoming tsunami of Long Covid sufferers. Unfortunately, I've also been on the receiving end of medical gaslighting. Its a traumatic …

Good Days, Bad Days: Being Kind to Yourself is a Practice

Long Covid is not only a tornado ripping through your body from head to toe, a churning ocean with waves crashing at all your limbs, its not only a never ending rabbit hole of symptoms and a personal house of horrors, leaving you looking at your body like its not yours. Long Covid is also …

Ontario’s Health Care System Not Equipped to Deal with Long Covid

Sounds about right. I've always felt extremely fortunate to live in Canada, a country where having health issues does not mean the end of your life nor your financial ruin. Having lived in New York several times, and having listened and read enough about US health care, I have found it appalling how lives are …

We Have No Plan for Covid19

I live in Toronto, Ontario, Canada. When I get a PCR test, if I manage to find one, results take days, sometimes weeks. My best friend was notified 12 days later that she had tested positive. What was she supposed to say to this public health official calling her? Thank you? Rapid tests, although now …