{"id":8228,"date":"2025-03-10T04:00:00","date_gmt":"2025-03-10T08:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/stillcoviding.ca\/en\/?p=8228"},"modified":"2025-03-14T16:35:38","modified_gmt":"2025-03-14T20:35:38","slug":"life-has-gone-back-to-normal-but-those-with-long-covid-continue-to-suffer","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/stillcoviding.ca\/en\/news\/life-has-gone-back-to-normal-but-those-with-long-covid-continue-to-suffer\/","title":{"rendered":"Life has gone back to normal. But those with long COVID continue to suffer"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>When Nathanael Rafinejad first moved to Montreal, they loved the city\u2019s nightlife and worked as a bartender and a waiter while studying business management.<\/p>\n<p>But after catching COVID-19 in January 2022, the 29-year-old is now mostly confined to their apartment.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI feel completely cut off from the world most of the time,\u201d said Rafinejad. \u201cI can\u2019t walk anymore. I cannot stand for more than a few seconds at a time. I can\u2019t sit for a long time. I have to use a wheelchair every day.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>When Nathanael Rafinejad first moved to Montreal, they loved the city\u2019s nightlife and worked as a bartender and a waiter while studying business management.<\/p>\n<p>But after catching COVID-19 in January 2022, the 29-year-old is now mostly confined to their apartment.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI feel completely cut off from the world most of the time,\u201d said Rafinejad. \u201cI can\u2019t walk anymore. I cannot stand for more than a few seconds at a time. I can\u2019t sit for a long time. I have to use a wheelchair every day.\u201d<\/p>\n<div class=\"more-link-wrapper\"><a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/stillcoviding.ca\/en\/news\/life-has-gone-back-to-normal-but-those-with-long-covid-continue-to-suffer\/\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Life has gone back to normal. But those with long COVID continue to suffer<\/span><\/a><\/div>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":8230,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[96,18,391,11,178,70,14,1059],"class_list":["post-8228","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news","tag-canada","tag-covid-19","tag-first-person-stories","tag-long-covid","tag-montreal","tag-quebec","tag-sars-cov-2","tag-tiohtiake","entry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/stillcoviding.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8228","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=8228"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/stillcoviding.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8228\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":8229,"href":"https:\/\/stillcoviding.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8228\/revisions\/8229"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stillcoviding.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/8230"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/stillcoviding.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8228"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stillcoviding.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8228"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stillcoviding.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8228"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}