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@tim1028

My wife has had Long Covid for several years, with various symptoms. Currently the main symptom is chronic fatigue. I know that she has been depressed from not knowing when or if she will feel better. She doesn't feel up to talking about Long Covid anymore: "It's too depressing." Thankfully, we both are retired and I have enough energy to take care of household management. I took care of my parents for 12 years and learned how to practice good self-care. I also mask when out in a crowd--concert, grocery shopping, church. I have never had Covid and don't want to bring anything home to her. We keep up with recommended vaccinations.

For those interested, the journalist Ed Yong won a Pulitzer Prize for his coverage of Long Covid and has many articles available via search engine.

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Thank you and for mentioning Ed Yong. His writing is superb and has been helpful.

One of the many docs I am now seeing said to me yesterday in a telemed visit that I need to recognize that I am not going to be pain-free or fully healthy. At this age, I know that too is a factor. And that you and your wife are retired, @tim1028 , indicates you may not be young either. It is that I think many of us (Boomers) thought we could age better and might have been doing ok til COVID.

For me the most exhausting and depressing is when it is aid "We've not heard anyone else with your symptom/s" and then those symptoms are dismissed v. looking into them.

To us all .. a semblance of a decent life, eh?