{"id":7577,"date":"2024-12-01T07:00:00","date_gmt":"2024-12-01T12:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/stillcoviding.ca\/en\/?p=7577"},"modified":"2024-12-01T15:41:33","modified_gmt":"2024-12-01T20:41:33","slug":"a-young-coloradan-learning-to-live-with-long-covid-turns-to-tiktok-to-educate-about-chronic-illness","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/stillcoviding.ca\/en\/news\/a-young-coloradan-learning-to-live-with-long-covid-turns-to-tiktok-to-educate-about-chronic-illness\/","title":{"rendered":"A young Coloradan learning to live with long COVID turns to TikTok to educate about chronic illness"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Lilly Downs rolled out of bed in her new apartment and began setting up her morning\u2019s IV fluids, which flow from a tube in her chest into her bloodstream to keep the 20-year-old hydrated.<\/p>\n<p>Next, she crushed and dissolved pills so they could run through a separate tube into her intestines, which absorb the medicine better than her stomach.<\/p>\n<p>The steps Lilly took that October morning are necessary because her stomach stopped working properly following her first bout with COVID-19 four years ago. But her routine also served another purpose: It was content she filmed for a video that she later posted on TikTok, where she has amassed nearly 470,000 followers. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Lilly Downs rolled out of bed in her new apartment and began setting up her morning\u2019s IV fluids, which flow from a tube in her chest into her bloodstream to keep the 20-year-old hydrated.<\/p>\n<p>Next, she crushed and dissolved pills so they could run through a separate tube into her intestines, which absorb the medicine better than her stomach.<\/p>\n<p>The steps Lilly took that October morning are necessary because her stomach stopped working properly following her first bout with COVID-19 four years ago. But her routine also served another purpose: It was content she filmed for a video that she later posted on TikTok, where she has amassed nearly 470,000 followers. <\/p>\n<div class=\"more-link-wrapper\"><a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/stillcoviding.ca\/en\/news\/a-young-coloradan-learning-to-live-with-long-covid-turns-to-tiktok-to-educate-about-chronic-illness\/\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\">A young Coloradan learning to live with long COVID turns to TikTok to educate about chronic illness<\/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":[578,18,391,11,14,202,51],"class_list":["post-7577","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news","tag-colorado","tag-covid-19","tag-first-person-stories","tag-long-covid","tag-sars-cov-2","tag-students","tag-united-states","entry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/stillcoviding.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7577","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=7577"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/stillcoviding.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7577\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":7578,"href":"https:\/\/stillcoviding.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7577\/revisions\/7578"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/stillcoviding.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7577"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stillcoviding.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7577"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stillcoviding.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7577"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}