This time last summer she bought herself a road bike to train to cycle from Land's End to John o' Groats.
Then she caught 'a nasty virus' in October.
She seemed back to normal a month later.
If it was covid (and by the sound of it, it was covid) it would have been her fourth infection.
The other three infections were all more 'mild' (and chest/nose/throat, whereas this one was very stomachy) with no significantly notable lasting effects apart from long term reduction in taste and smell.
Throughout the pandemic (which is still ongoing, obviously) Covid has mutated to evade our immunity, but during that process has regularly alternated between two common mutations: with and without 'V70&H69'.
Each time the swap happens, a new wave or series of waves starts.
It's like a bank robber swapping between disguises, except our bodies don't seem clever enough to remember both disguises.
Anyway, I have no idea where Covid is going to go in the next few months, but it's currently been in V70/H69- mode for 240 days now in England.
That's a record for minus mode.
I get it.
You read a title "The plasma metabolome of long COVID patients two years after infection" and it makes no sense to you, which is perfectly reasonable.
So what's it about in words that normal people can understand?
🧵 nature.com/articles/s4159…
Your 'plasma metabolome' is basically the stuff floating around in your bloodstream that isn't cells.
So things like amino acids, sugars, lipids, vitamins, minerals, hormones, waste products.