So, you get hit in the knee with an arrow. You're not an adventurer anymore. Years later you still limp, but the arrow? Nowhere to be seen. It did its work in an instant.
This is #LongCovid. You no longer test positive for the virus, but you're not an adventurer anymore.
Rephrasing: "Long COVID" does not mean "having COVID for a long time."
It means the virus disabled you. Yes, that's a thing viruses can do.
Don't give this one the chance. I used to be an adventurer like you, but then I took an arrow to the knee.
Viruses can also trigger POTS/Dysautonomia, covid especially so. If your clinician hasn't already discussed it, it's worth looking into. Just getting that diagnosis was a huge thing for me, to have an actual explanation for all I was feeling
This was my OH (foreground, right) before ME/CFS, gutting someone not taking her seriously back in the mid 80s
Before she got ME/CFS, similar to Long COVID
As you say, that stuff stops your adventuring life
Very apt description. Coincidentally, sadly, my personal mantra for daily motivation before Covid/long Covid was ”Adventure awaits!”, and then I’d run out the door to seek wonderful things. Now I can barely walk a block w my walker. Covid hit me like an arrow to the belly; 1335 days of HELL since
Taking an arrow to the knee, was the Viking term for getting married. It limited your adventuring, so I understand. However, with that said I am so sorry that you are suffering from Long COVID. May you recover soon and well.
Solidarity. Reporting from a duration of Feb. 2020 to whatever month we are at now... I'm better. Not WELL, but better. My body is like a classic car. Gotta use the special fuel and tinker with it a lot, but if I do, it functions. Beats my low point of sleeping through 2022.
My partner started a new Skyrim character and it has been fun to watch (when I don’t have a #LongCOVID headache). Maybe I can be a guard in Whiterun someday…?
