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Long Covid Returns

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Fucking Covid

It’s not official with doctors, but I’m having the same symptoms again. Lower energy, fatigue, exertional malaise, brain fog, worse ADHD, physical weakness, and need to sleep 10 hours to feel normal.

This is horrible because up to 3 weeks ago, I finally felt like myself before getting sick with Covid.

This may be connected to getting the new COVID-19 vaccine and getting sick from something else simultaneously.

I fucking hate feeling sick. ☹️

I hate this because just as I was feeling safe and comfortable to return to doing things in the world, I was sick again.

At least now, there are medicines for coronavirus and some understanding of this disease.

It’s making me crazy because doing regular things like getting groceries, doing laundry, cooking, or cleaning is draining, and I require a nap or lying down for hours to recover.

College

I’ve been keeping up with math and doing well, and I still have a grade of over 95 percent.

I’m still doing well in English class, but because of my health, I turned in half of my assignments late and haven’t gotten a grade yet. It’s entirely my fault– I didn’t manage my time or sickness battery well.

What that means is instead of working on homework first thing in the day when I had the most energy and focus, I procrastinate until late in the day or last minute, which was stressful and exhausting as fuck.

Sigh. It’s time to get more help with my physical health and return to therapy.

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2 responses to “Long Covid Returns”

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    creekroadpottery

    Sorry to hear about you working though the issues being related to Covid. I am very much the same way without it. I have a ton of work to do in the pottery and keep getting distracted and feel exhausted. I was able to read a great little book will resting up it was called The War of Art by Steven Pressfield. You may be able to find the audio version on audible. I read it all in one sitting from 1 am to 6 am when I could not sleep due to a messed up sleep scedule from work. I know about procrastination for sure. I am doing that now typing here avoiding work. I need 120 pieces of work for my pottery Christmas show Black Friday weekend next week. I also had to push back 2 deadlines for custom orders. I am lucky the two customer were ok with the wait…this time…hang in there man and fight the resistance inside as much as you can…that thing in our heads that keep us from doing the hard work…I need to go to hard work now or I’ll have a bad time.

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      TheUnknownReilly

      Thanks for the well wishes! I hope everything goes smoothly for the pottery show on Black Friday! I have that book in my audiobook library! It’s been awhile since I read it, however it sounds like it’d be helpful again.

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