Here it begins: 100 days after meeting Mr. Covid
Today is the 100th day after getting infected. Almost everything that was obvious and natural in my life has changed in these 100 days: from working 70 hours a week to being breathless walking to the bathroom. Having been at home for what seems like an eternity, I feel like a little caterpillar locked in…
Dealing with Fatigue: the basics
The most evident and disabling symptom of long COVID is the overwhelming exhaustion you suddenly have to deal with: the postviral fatigue. With a large range of clinical presentations, fatigue generally leads to an incapacity to carry out one’s normal daily physical and cognitive activities. I often explain living with fatigue by using the methaphor…
Plan your day to balance your energy
I am convinced that a key element to my recovery is the day schedule that I designed and use for several weeks now. I advise you to consider using this tool, because it will help you to find a balance between your activities and enough rest in between (yes, back to pacing indeed). At first…
Get informed!
A new virus, a new disease, causing mysterious long-term effects… Even doctors might not always be informed about every detail of the long COVID story, and internet has its limits too. Since I found it difficult to get the right information, I will provide my most valuable recources here for you: 1. For me the…
Yoga & Stretching with Mr. Covid
I have a hate-love relationship with yoga: I like the physical exercise and relaxation that it brings, but I was never really drawn to the spiritual aura surrounding yoga. Especially in certain yoga studios in Berlin, buzzing Om sounds often made me hesitate to join a class. After months of coughing and immobilisation however, I…
Challenge yourself: not too much, not too little…
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Me & Mr. Covid: diary of a long-term relationship 