Aside from ‘announcing’ I had Covid over the summer and an accompanying article, I’ve by and large kept my personal Covid stuff private. But I’ve been bothered, a lot, by this argument about “survival rate” or how “young people are fine,” etc.
I’ve been bothered by it because I haven’t been “fine.” I thought I was when I originally felt better and tested negative. But about a month after initial infection, I started getting frequent chest pains around my heart that I had never had before
In my initial phase of recovery, I was doing progressively harder cardio workouts to get my air back to normal, but I would get full on winded on walks where I couldn’t walk and talk at the same time. I had an episode where my blood pressure shot through the roof out of nowhere
My heart rate would spike when I stood up. It even impacted me on air, where I would feel like I just couldn’t hold my air or catch my breath sometimes when I went live for stories.
I’ve had just about every test I could think of and everything has come back “fine”
I’ve had just about every test I could think of and everything has come back “fine”
But for some people who have recovered, something is just different. I’m happy to say, after 6 months, some of these things like the frequent chest pain and heart rate spikes have subsided.
But it took SIX MONTHS.
Hopeful 2021 and vaccines get us to a better place.
But it took SIX MONTHS.
Hopeful 2021 and vaccines get us to a better place.
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