This week my luck ran out. My case is a cautionary tale, particularly for the “just a cold” folks. Mine definitely was not...I literally have scars to show for it.
Then I made a mistake – I took a shower. While the instinct to take a shower when you’re sweaty and gross is understandable, stepping into hot water when you’re dehydrated and flu-ish can cause your blood vessels to dilate, leading to a dangerous drop in blood pressure.
Prof Bob Wachter (UCSF Chief of Medicine).
https://threadreaderapp.com/thread/1679322231003033600.html
TLDR: First Covid infection. Syncope in shower and gave himself a (small) subdural haematoma and an uncomplicated/stable cervical spine fracture, along with face and scalp lacerations.
Please, please, please M.E/CFS community, don't approach or try to help him. Remember PG fiasco.
Last summer, the first lady tested positive for Covid-19 while vacationing in South Carolina in August. President Joe Biden tested positive last July. Both experienced rebound cases shortly after being treated with Paxlovid.
Unfortunately, according to experts in so-called evidence-based medicine, he just wasn't motivated enough to get over his anxieties and recover from the sick role to make millions of dollar. Or whatever it is they tell themselves.Ex-Canuck Brandon Sutter set to start his NHL comeback after long-Covid battle.
And he went to get vaccinated, because that was just the right thing to do. But, it seems, the vaccine triggered bigger symptoms, putting his off-season training to a halt.
His heart-beat would race to extreme levels during exercise and then wouldn’t settle when he would rest. He struggled at times climbing stairs. He would get exhausted helping out around the house and playing with his kids.
The universe just wasn’t on his side, something he long ago came to terms with. Getting vaccinated was the right choice; his timing was just very, very bad he believes.
“I wish I would have waited until I felt 100 per cent healthy before getting the vaccine, but at that time, nobody really knew the answers on this stuff,” he said. “It was trial and error and really didn’t work out for me. I’m in no way an anti-vaxxer.”
https://theprovince.com/sports/hock...ter-set-to-start-his-nhl-comeback-in-edmonton
Four long years it took to write, through pandemic and normality, through Long Covid and health. My son, Elliot, was born just before I began to write, and by the end, he was riding a bike.
It has been a dramatic few years since he started writing the novel in 2018: his son had just been born; he had long Covid, which made writing an impossibility some days; he has had cancer and separated from his wife. And now he has landed the biggest prize in contemporary fiction.