Me, criplit author, to one of my writing pals: If I were writing out my own course of #LongCovid with the aim of sketching out a fictional character, I would 100% scratch it out as not plausible. "Tone down. This is verging on ludicrous. Pull back on the crises."
On a serious note, I think that is a factor in why it's so difficult to get doctors to believe us. Disbelieving patients is a feature of medicine, don't get me wrong, but as a medical geek, no other illness has caused me to keep checking the *instruments* due to wild readings.
When you grow up with doc's offices and hospitals a regular feature of your life, you learn early on that wild readings happen and not to freak out about a blip, but when *everything* looks like a blip but the equipment isn't faulty, are we measuring useful things anymore?
I'm not saying anything profound, but I'm sitting here with a fever of 101.4F, the tinnitus is back, a bunch of other symptoms back, yet a sat of 99(?) for the first time since June, so I'm feeling contemplative, I guess.
Update! Well, it was 99 eight minutes ago when I wrote the tweet before this one, but now... see? Implausible. Surrealism. Just... Monty Python's Flying Circus of Bodily Malfunctions. (Hey @EricIdle, would there be legal trouble to be had for subtitling Long Covid thusly?😁) 
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