I call this era of my life The Fainting Season, when my body couldn’t bear the gravity of the situation. When every sidestep, every bent gesture, ended in a heap. When sitting up was a head wound, a miscalculated ejection fraction, a failure to blush, my body wrestling me to the ground like a service dog. I fainted in COVID screening line-ups, in hospital parking lots, in the shower and putting on my shoes, on bike rides and short walks, in elevators and in the airport arguing about wheelchair policy, in my girlfriend’s house flipping pancakes or making her king-sized marriage bed. The whole city is a tilted marble roll down to the lake and I faint daily walking the slight incline up to my house.
My posts are not as beautifully written, but I have found some solutions along the way. I hope that you'll have a look. Long COVID: Insights on a journey back to wellness
Beautifully written. I love your description of the cognitive issues- I haven’t been able to successfully describe it and this is exactly it. Thank you. My cognitive functioning has been in utter collapse and POTS is so much worse lately for no reason, I’ve had near fainting spells. I can’t imagine fainting so much like you. Have your symptoms gotten progressively worse over time? . How dangerous to be fainting all over the place- Please stay safe! Also pots is a form of dysautonomia, not the same thing, and not all dysautonomia people have pots. It’s weird - my POTS developed 8 months after my acute infection and now over 16 months after acute infection I can barely turn over in bed without feeling like I’m losing consciousness. The body is a prison.
My posts are not as beautifully written, but I have found some solutions along the way. I hope that you'll have a look. Long COVID: Insights on a journey back to wellness
This is all very relatable. looking forward to the next one!
Beautifully written. I love your description of the cognitive issues- I haven’t been able to successfully describe it and this is exactly it. Thank you. My cognitive functioning has been in utter collapse and POTS is so much worse lately for no reason, I’ve had near fainting spells. I can’t imagine fainting so much like you. Have your symptoms gotten progressively worse over time? . How dangerous to be fainting all over the place- Please stay safe! Also pots is a form of dysautonomia, not the same thing, and not all dysautonomia people have pots. It’s weird - my POTS developed 8 months after my acute infection and now over 16 months after acute infection I can barely turn over in bed without feeling like I’m losing consciousness. The body is a prison.
Thank you for this! I’m going to edit that line so its clear Dysautonomia is the umbrella term.