I'm about 28 months out from my primary Covid19 infection that caused my hospitalization, and eventually gave me the joy of long covid. While everyone has their own unique presentation, my day to day usually involves frequent periods where I feel ill and exhausted. I like to walk, and often when I'm feeling good I can do a lap or two around the block. But more often than not, especially lately, I can go from feeling about 80% to feeling about 20% in the space of about 100m or so. When a crash happens, it sort of feels like every cell in my body just suddenly runs out of energy - my heart, my ...

I realized this morning that I haven’t really given an update since I was smack-dab in the middle of our lockdown here in Spain. Most of us here spent 98 days essentially locked up in our apartments, only venturing outside to quickly get some groceries or to go to a pharmacy. It was one of the most intense and invasive lockdowns of any country anywhere, and many people here really struggled to cope with it. While I didn’t mind being at home, especially since I had many renovation projects on the go, the inability to even go for a walk or to get exercise was really difficult mentally, and most ...