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Struggling with long-haul COVID
Published: 5/15/2021 2:00:38 PM
In March 2020, Caroline Boyd Tricarico contracted what she thought was a mild case of COVID-19. Now, more than a year later, she’s been forced onto short-term disability and early retirement as debilitating symptoms linger.
Boyd Tricarico, a former executive at several top financial firms as well as CEO of the Animal Rescue League of New Hampshire, went from being a leader to having days she couldn’t even get out of bed. Her symptoms have included short-term memory loss, “brain fog,” auditory and visual hallucinations, and insomnia. She developed a trial fibrillation (irregular, rapid heartbeat), which was not present prior to COVID-19. And her COVID symptoms have exacerbated her fibromyalgia. On a good day, she can maybe make breakfast, cross stitch or go for a short walk, she says.
Jerry Wright’s “farm.” Courtesy photo
by SUSAN M. BRACKNEY
Adam Hamel always imagined gardening someday, but with the onset of the COVID-19 pandemic, someday arrived sooner than expected. “Everyone was stockpiling food and toilet paper,” Hamel recalls. “Not knowing how things were going to turn out in the next six months to a year, we thought this would be the perfect time to become more self-sufficient.”
Jerry Wright. Courtesy photo
The Stone Belt development manager and his fiancée fenced a 15-by-15-foot veggie patch and packed in some of everything. “Our biggest problem was we put some plants in places that weren’t great for them,” Hamel admits. “We were just kind of winging it.”