{"id":4381,"date":"2022-11-16T10:36:00","date_gmt":"2022-11-16T15:36:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/stillcoviding.ca\/en\/?p=4381"},"modified":"2024-01-25T03:39:27","modified_gmt":"2024-01-25T08:39:27","slug":"how-long-covid-ruined-my-life-from-crushing-fatigue-to-brain-fog","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/stillcoviding.ca\/en\/news\/how-long-covid-ruined-my-life-from-crushing-fatigue-to-brain-fog\/","title":{"rendered":"How long COVID ruined my life, from crushing fatigue to brain fog"},"content":{"rendered":"<blockquote cite=\"https:\/\/news.sky.com\/story\/how-long-covid-ruined-my-life-from-crushing-fatigue-to-brain-fog-12744444\">\n<p lang=\"en\">The change struck like a bolt of lightning from a clear blue sky. I\u2019d been under the weather for a couple of weeks &#8211; nothing major, just a persistent cough, but for some reason I couldn\u2019t seem to shift it. I took a day off work and carried on. Until 19&nbsp;March, when I woke up and everything was different.<\/p>\n<p lang=\"en\">I was tired &#8211; overwhelmingly, crushingly tired, as if I\u2019d been up for days, when in fact I\u2019d slept all night &#8211; and I couldn\u2019t think straight. When I tried to text my boss to tell him I wasn\u2019t going to be able to make it into work, it took me more than an hour to string a sentence together.<\/p>\n<p lang=\"en\">Eventually, I got out a short apologetic message. Then I went back to bed, where I stayed for three days straight. It should have been scary, but I was too tired to be scared. The need for rest overwhelmed every thought or feeling.<\/p>\n<footer>\u2014Rowland Manthorpe<\/footer>\n<\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<blockquote cite=\"https:\/\/news.sky.com\/story\/how-long-covid-ruined-my-life-from-crushing-fatigue-to-brain-fog-12744444\">\n<p lang=\"en\">The change struck like a bolt of lightning from a clear blue sky. I\u2019d been under the weather for a couple of weeks &#8211; nothing major, just a persistent cough, but for some reason I couldn\u2019t seem to shift it. I took a day off work and carried on. Until 19&nbsp;March, when I woke up and everything was different.<\/p>\n<p lang=\"en\">I was tired &#8211; overwhelmingly, crushingly tired, as if I\u2019d been up for days, when in fact I\u2019d slept all night &#8211; and I couldn\u2019t think straight. When I tried to text my boss to tell him I wasn\u2019t going to be able to make it into work, it took me more than an hour to string a sentence together.<\/p>\n<p lang=\"en\">Eventually, I got out a short apologetic message. Then I went back to bed, where I stayed for three days straight. It should have been scary, but I was too tired to be scared. The need for rest overwhelmed every thought or feeling.<\/p>\n<footer>\u2014Rowland Manthorpe<\/footer>\n<\/blockquote>\n<div class=\"more-link-wrapper\"><a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/stillcoviding.ca\/en\/news\/how-long-covid-ruined-my-life-from-crushing-fatigue-to-brain-fog\/\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\">How long COVID ruined my life, from crushing fatigue to brain fog<\/span><\/a><\/div>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[46,18,405,273,30,391,11,264,14,50],"class_list":["post-4381","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news","tag-cognitive-issues","tag-covid-19","tag-europe","tag-extreme-fatigue","tag-fatigue","tag-first-person-stories","tag-long-covid","tag-post-exertional-malaise","tag-sars-cov-2","tag-united-kingdom","entry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/stillcoviding.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4381","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/stillcoviding.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/stillcoviding.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stillcoviding.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stillcoviding.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4381"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/stillcoviding.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4381\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4388,"href":"https:\/\/stillcoviding.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4381\/revisions\/4388"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/stillcoviding.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4381"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stillcoviding.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4381"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stillcoviding.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4381"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}