The results of all my tests are in. I'm generally healthy, with no heart or lung problems. The numb left side and band around my chest that makes me wheeze and feel like I can't take a deep breath is actually caused by inflammation in the spinal cord as part of #longcovid. I'm told there is no treatment other than pain management. It will heal or not on its own. Most improvement usually comes in the first three months, so being nearly 2 years in reduces my recovery expectations.
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All test results come back normal. The response is always, "Covid is weird. We don't know how to treat you." The only thing all the techs notice is that my left side is cold, and they can't find a vein.
My theory is that I died back in July 2023, but I had to go to work anyway, so my left side is still dead, and I drag it along with me. My son says it's the zombie apocalypse, and I'm half zombie.
The beginning of the final thread that @Tinu posted here, giving an update on her medical status and her #battles with her insurance company and her medical treatments:
https://mastodon.social/@Tinu/113112518839888233
May the predatory insurance system see some retributive justice for what they did to her.
MastodonTinu - Empress of Twerk (@Tinu@mastodon.social)Attached: 3 images
Posting an update from my GFM that goes into a nightmare happening to cancer patients across the country.
Photos are me at chemo today.
“I have tried to write this update so many times.
In life the one thing I can usually count on are the words. Writing is who I am and how I breathe, more than anything else.
But I am not myself. It feels like my Self is stolen.“
(Continues as thread)
https://gofund.me/72601171
https://moneyyy.me/$tinuwrites
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@juliewebgirl I used to be a morning person - I'd roll happily out of bed at 5:30am without an alarm clock, and all my best problem solving and ideas happened before lunch, often before breakfast.
Now I need a couple extra hours of awake horizontal time before I can even contemplate getting up, having breakfast, and only then starting to cope with the world.
My goal at this point is just to survive long Covid as long as I can. Avoiding additional damage is one tactic to get there, but my gut is telling me that even the damage already done is enough to kill me.
I have a family history of death from cardiac issues, with my father dying at 46, my grandfather at 65, and my great-grandfather at 62, all of MI (myocardial infarction, AKA “heart attack”). Until Covid, I was in excellent health, had reasonably low body fat percentage, and exercised regularly. Since long Covid, I would describe myself as sedentary, my body fat is up around 28%, and my health is fair at best. My estimated life expectancy using various calculators has already dropped from 97 to 85.
I don’t really have a path forward other than continuing to pace myself as well as I can to reduce how often I crash, but the last few weeks I have not been good in that respect, especially on vacation. I really wanted to enjoy myself the first couple of days, but a couple of long days in the sun and late nights led to 3 days spent mostly in bed sleeping.
Now I am back to work. Yesterday was a day of meetings, and even with a 1 hr nap after lunch, I still had to go to bed early. Today I am toasty and other than one meeting and a couple of hours of email catchup, I just can’t focus, my head hurts, I can’t see straight, and I may actually be in the midst of a nightmare rather than awake typing this on phone.