{"id":2164,"date":"2021-03-16T13:59:17","date_gmt":"2021-03-16T13:59:17","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/kmccullough.com\/kblog\/?p=2164"},"modified":"2021-03-16T13:59:17","modified_gmt":"2021-03-16T13:59:17","slug":"covid-19-one-year-later","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/kmccullough.com\/kblog\/covid-19-one-year-later\/","title":{"rendered":"Covid-19 One Year Later"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Yesterday was the one-year anniversary of the day my doctor told me (virtually, of course) that it sounded like I had Covid-19. Because I didn\u2019t need to go to the hospital and couldn\u2019t verify that I\u2019d been in contact with anyone with a confirmed case, I didn\u2019t qualify for testing at that time. But the symptoms made both of us confident I had it.<\/div>\n<\/div>\n
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It\u2019s been a long year for me because my symptoms didn\u2019t stop after I \u2018recovered\u2019 five weeks later.<\/div>\n<\/div>\n
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I wrote earlier about how I likely got it and my experience of the disease so I’m not going into it here. You can read about it here.<\/a><\/div>\n
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The past year has been an up and down one. I have Long Covid, now officially designated as PASC (Post Acute Sequellae of SARS-COV-19). For me that has meant almost constant, low-level breathing problems and bouts of exhaustion, particularly if I try to exercise too hard. I also have periodic relapses of symptoms that seem to occur at irregular intervals and last anywhere from three to ten days.<\/div>\n
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I\u2019d planned to make this a little report on how much better, finally, I am. Because my symptoms have improved and I\u2019ve had only two very minor relapses over the past few months, one of which came after getting the first dose of the vaccine.<\/div>\n<\/div>\n
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However, two days ago I started coughing again, my chest hurt, and my head was pounding. It was worse when I woke up yesterday and persists this morning. Not only do I ache all over, but fatigue is sitting heavily on me, so here I am with another full-blown relapse. I hope this one won’t last long.<\/div>\n<\/div>\n
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I’m also hoping this is the one step back in the two-steps-forward, one-step-back trajectory that has characterized my slow recovery.<\/div>\n
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The good news is that I’m back to writing and mostly managing to live my life as I want (under Covid protocols, of course), and feel reasonably well most of the time. And I’ve learned how to deal with some of the issues. I’ve found that I can exercise as long as I pace myself carefully. I can keep going for a long time as long as I don’t push too hard. If I try to walk at too fast a pace, I start having serious breathing issues. My walking mileage has gradually increased but I can’t do it at the same pace I used to. I don’t know if I ever will.\u00a0 But I’m grateful that I can walk<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Yesterday was the one-year anniversary of the day my doctor told me (virtually, of course) that it sounded like I had Covid-19. Because I didn\u2019t need to go to the hospital and couldn\u2019t verify that I\u2019d been in contact with …<\/span> Continue reading →<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[202],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2164","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-covid19"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/kmccullough.com\/kblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2164","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/kmccullough.com\/kblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/kmccullough.com\/kblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kmccullough.com\/kblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kmccullough.com\/kblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2164"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/kmccullough.com\/kblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2164\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2165,"href":"https:\/\/kmccullough.com\/kblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2164\/revisions\/2165"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/kmccullough.com\/kblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2164"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kmccullough.com\/kblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2164"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kmccullough.com\/kblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2164"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}