Long COVID is not just destroying people's health. Behind closed doors, in homes across Australia and abroad, it is irreversibly changing relationships — sometimes for the better, too often for worse.

I don’t have long covid, but I am chronically ill and this article really spoke to me.

“Every day we hear the story of how long COVID is affecting the way people can connect with others,” says David Putrino, who runs a long COVID clinic as director of rehabilitation for the Mount Sinai Health System in New York. “This is a known phenomenon in chronic illness and disability [communities]: that when you first become disabled or experience a chronic illness, your world changes — it becomes smaller. And suddenly, friends and family members who can’t easily interact with you stop interacting with you.”

Protect yourselves when you can, comrades. It’s not a fun life.

  • ChristianEnglish
    15·
    9 months ago

    My wife and I had our wedding planned for August 2020 and we couldn’t reschedule it because my health insurance was set to expire in September and my post-covid symptoms put me out of work. We got married in a basement with five guests, my parents couldn’t even be there.

    I’ve mostly recovered now, but that was a rough experience.

    • bubbalu [they/them]@hexbear.netEnglish
      3·
      9 months ago

      That’s really tough. Have you thought about having a bigger celebration some time since then because you were cheated? That might be a really beautiful thing to do.