🧵 4 hour sleep. Awake with return of sensation like a mild and clunky AC current inside me, most prevalent in head and neck. Meditated a little but find it hard to be present in stillness with this symptom. It doesn’t let me sleep either. #LongCovid #LongCovidDiaries #MECFS /1
Staying in bed with Twitter, Facebook, music and writing. Pulse rate as low as 49. Oxygen saturation still low at 92%. Sweet message from dear old friend who lives in Australia. It’s good to reconnect with someone from the adventurous and wild days of my youth and early 20s. /2
We have crazy memories of mountains and climbing, motor bikes and mountain bikes, girls and women, bars and clubs, booze and fights, thrills and spills, breaks and crashes. A few scars and broken teeth aside, we felt quite invincible back then. We’ve both grown a lot since. /3
This latest adventure, into chronic illness and #LongCovid, brings a new dimension of growth for me. I welcome and appreciate what it has to offer. The words of advice I have now for the me back then make me smile. I laugh and wonder if I would have listened to them? /4
Underneath bravado and confidence, there was a deeper level, entirely different. If I got through to the parts I was hiding from most of the time, facing them in my worst moments alone, that’s where real change would happen. I’m happy that I’ve been able to reach them since. 🙂
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