>> Mara Gay, The New York Times
Published: 02 Jan 2021 04:50 PM BdST
Updated: 02 Jan 2021 04:50 PM BdST
The coronavirus disease (COVID-19) survivor Santiaga Cerrato, 85, who suffers from Alzheimer's disease, bids farewell to fellow resident Antonia Sanchez at the nursing home Centro Casaverde in Navalcarnero, outside Madrid, Spain, Dec 23, 2020. REUTERS
I am one of millions of people still fighting to regain their full health months after surviving COVID-19. But this is not a story about sickness. This is a story about the small army of people who are helping me heal.
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There are the pulmonologists, a team of two brilliant, brave women who have treated COVID-19 patients in the ICU throughout the pandemic. One of them is around my age — early 30s. “You will get there,” she assured me recently as if she had read my worried mind. Our faces were masked, but I could see the confident smile in her eyes. “It’s just slow,” she said, using profanity that I can’t repeat here but that made me laugh.