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Julie's avatar

Reading everything you've written about your experience with COVID so far, including how much you've pushed yourself and how brain fog has interfered already, I want to beg you to please rest.

Pushing through all the fatigue and fog can make them chronic... I speak from experience, and unfortunately know quite a lot of others who have had the same experience. It tears a soul completely up to lose ...words. I have actually lost them enough that even right now, I had wanted to say something else but I can't remember the right phrase.

Public health has been bad at advising about how to avoid Long COVID, so those of us who have already been through post viral chronic illness try to share our lives as cautionary tales. Caution number one: mental exertion is basically as exhausting as physical exertion, but I bet you probably have already felt that.

Anyway, you're a treasure and I hope that you can give yourself the same care you would give one of your own loved ones. Really be gentle and kind to yourself and really truly rest. More than you're used to, more than you think is required, more than you want to. Even more than all that. Radical rest. Rest as hard as you possibly can.

Cause, we do want you back! But not quickly. Quality over, uh, quickness. Fully, wholly recovered!

Ok sorry for unsolicited advice. I just worry like a mother hen when I read the type of things like you've written in this last missive. Cluck, cluck.

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Patricia Meier's avatar

Be well. Take care of you. As a paid subscriber, I appreciate the head’s up as I would’ve been wondering why the payment didn’t go through

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