The prevalence of Long-Covid has increased and led to research, which is said to help sufferers of ME/Chronic Fatigue Syndrome. Unfortunately, I have yet to see this improvement in our lives.
I was diagnosed with ME/CFS in 2020 but had been ill for a few years while continuing to work full-time. When I say ill I mean that in terms of being susceptible to colds, being exhausted, randomly overwhelmed and if I was a car, I was running on two cylinders. In May 2020, it was as if my entire body shut down. It was school holidays and I forced myself outside to weed the garden, not because I am an avid gardener but because the weeds were getting mighty high. I could picture them peeping over the shared fence like friendly triffids.
After about 90 minutes with the patch half-cleared, I’d had enough. I stood up and wobbled. Then I staggered into the house and held onto the kitchen bench for a few minutes, wondering what on earth was wrong with me. The only place was bed so that’s where I stayed for the rest of the day and the next.
A week later, I returned to work and instantly caught influenza from two students, who were so unwell they could barely speak. Sick leave began and I thought it would be a week until I returned, but I never went back. The mental shock has been stupendous.
