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Long COVID: Accepting my new normal

Post-COVID Recovery & COVID-19 | Last Active: Feb 26 10:31pm | Replies (52)

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One day or half day (or make it to lunch) at a time.

Simplify reasonably, as much as you can. Make work and home a repetitive "muscle memory" exercise.

For me, i removed new things, new projects, new work, home and work. I removed unecessary or hard things that had no or little value in all reality.

Streamline all. Not relationships.

Focus on good sleep, being healthy, doing healthy, eating healthy, if you can, some modest walking. Five minutes. I walked 150 feet up a less than 1% slope, repeated the next day. It was hard, my sweat fit started, I could hear my heart beat, and after the exhaustion wall hit me (someone said it was called PEM ot PME). Yeah, the wall and sometimes (most for me) the symptoms get worse after exercise or vigorative movement. I had never head of PEM (or PME). But that is what ai am seeing.

So many syptoms and side effects. I jusy want to eat dirt and drink coffee. Kill all of it....

I would probably starce first.

Remember, one foot at a time, one day at a time or quarter or half day or whatever.

Left foot then right, repeat. Keep moving and heading forward.

It is a journey. Last year right now I was on crutches, then transitioned to wheel chair as the Covid reactive arthritis got worse. Then the pulmonary embolisms and leg deep vein and shallow hit...and so on.

Take stock in now. Forget this "new normal". Life is a journey. You take it or it takes you. Your choice.

One step, then another.. go do life.

The meanest doctor I had said, "you are an enigma". Then he said, "go live your life". As if, there was no future, finish your bucket list, see the moon, or whatever.

Punk. Glad I am not dirty Harry or anything close.

I was in shock to all he said. He did not motivate me, doscourage me, no credit to him. He was mad he had a Friday appointment. When we were walking out he was lecturing the staff about his schedule for appointments. What a useless human. It is sad. All that knowledge and all those tools and he asks me, "why are you here".

Punk.....

Npinner04, keep pushing, keep fighting, eat well, have joy in the days moments that are good, let the bad moments be flushed.

Jt

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