Still Recovered 1 1/2 Years Later

I thought I'd leave an update as this month marks 3 years since my first COVID infection and about 1 1/2 years now since I've been fully recovered from long COVID. I am still fully recovered as of today. I am still active and living life. ( I have a few previous update posts for more context, your welcome to search my username within this subreddit to find them)

This photo is present day, I just came back from a month long trip throughout Brasil.

Pre COVID I was an athlete, active in olympic weightlifting and a gym rat technically, had a business, a wonderful partner, and I enjoyed living in general. After a mild COVID case, my whole life changed overnight, and eventually ended up becoming a shell of my former myself. All of this took a major hit.

I had spent February 2022 thru July 2023 in the inferno, the upside down world as I called it. I experienced the most soul crushing symptoms of my life that year and a half, like dying alive on a daily, never knowing if I was going to wake up alive the next day, it was very dark times. It was debilitating. I was angry, angry at the world, my family(fortunately my partner was understanding but also struggled mentally and emotionally), the people on reddit/online who thought it was all fake, strangers outside who were living their lives like COVID wasn't there. Underneath all the anger, it all was just pure sadness for the loss. I had to practice radical acceptance, but also keeping the little hope alive inside me that I will recover.

I'm glad I advocated for myself when Drs had no idea back then. For me personally, I recovered by addressing the root cause eventually, come to find out mine was from iron deficiency anemia, and also part long COVID, because no one could explain the other hellish symptoms that didn't fit IDA, this all happened in the last 6 months of my long haul before I fully recovered.

Today I'm grateful, thankful, and blessed for every single moment of my life moving forward. I am a completely different person today mentally, physically, and spiritually. I'm normal, but not in a way you would think, I have developed a lot of new experiences in my life now among the previous ones I had pre COVID and moved on from my past self. It had to happen. I learned a lot about myself. I grew a lot since. The hope kept me alive despite all the odds.

Remember the hope, this is not the ending.

I thought I'd leave an update as this month marks 3 years since my first COVID infection and about 1 1/2 years now since I've been fully recovered from long COVID. I am still fully recovered as of today. I am still active and living life. ( I have a few previous update posts for more context, your welcome to search my username within this subreddit to find them)

This photo is present day, I just came back from a month long trip throughout Brasil.

Pre COVID I was an athlete, active in olympic weightlifting and a gym rat technically, had a business, a wonderful partner, and I enjoyed living in general. After a mild COVID case, my whole life changed overnight, and eventually ended up becoming a shell of my former myself. All of this took a major hit.

I had spent February 2022 thru July 2023 in the inferno, the upside down world as I called it. I experienced the most soul crushing symptoms of my life that year and a half, like dying alive on a daily, never knowing if I was going to wake up alive the next day, it was very dark times. It was debilitating. I was angry, angry at the world, my family(fortunately my partner was understanding but also struggled mentally and emotionally), the people on reddit/online who thought it was all fake, strangers outside who were living their lives like COVID wasn't there. Underneath all the anger, it all was just pure sadness for the loss. I had to practice radical acceptance, but also keeping the little hope alive inside me that I will recover.

I'm glad I advocated for myself when Drs had no idea back then. For me personally, I recovered by addressing the root cause eventually, come to find out mine was from iron deficiency anemia, and also part long COVID, because no one could explain the other hellish symptoms that didn't fit IDA, this all happened in the last 6 months of my long haul before I fully recovered.

Today I'm grateful, thankful, and blessed for every single moment of my life moving forward. I am a completely different person today mentally, physically, and spiritually. I'm normal, but not in a way you would think, I have developed a lot of new experiences in my life now among the previous ones I had pre COVID and moved on from my past self. It had to happen. I learned a lot about myself. I grew a lot since. The hope kept me alive despite all the odds.

Remember the hope, this is not the ending.