Free online boot camp proving successful for COVID-19 long haulers
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It s the first of its kind, it s free, and it s giving COVID-19 long haulers both physical and emotional hope. Itâs called the COVID Bootcamp, started by the Pulmonary Wellness Foundation.
For Eli Musser, who has been dealing with COVID-19 for almost exactly a year, his former life is a dream ago.
âI hope it s a dream I get to go back to,â Musser said.
Musser was about to get married and was close to releasing a record. He had an active physical fitness regimen. Now, he says, a 20-minute walk is an exhausting success. His calendar is filled with his extensive care team of doctors and appointments.
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The author during her fifth trip to the emergency room due to COVID-19 in July 2020.
As I went to bed on New Year’s Day, I sighed to myself, “I just don’t know .” My fiancé Konstantin, who I thought was fast asleep, lifted his head and asked what I meant. Embarrassed to have been caught in a solipsistic moment, I quietly finished the thought, “. if I will ever get better.”
COVID-19 entered my home a year ago today when my 16-year-old daughter Molly first developed the tell-tale cough. By March 17, 2020, my symptoms had begun. Molly recovered almost entirely after three weeks, but I’m still sick, and that makes me a COVID long hauler. Jan. 1, 2021, was a particularly difficult day for me: My joint and muscle pain, which had been escalating since summer, reached a level of agony and was coupled with intermittent tachycardia and shortness of breath, digestive problems, migraine, and overwhelming fatigue.
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ownload our NBC 7 mobile app for iOS or Android to get San Diego’s latest First Alert Weather and breaking news. COVID was horrible,” says Maria Jimenez-Correa. The 60-year-old teacher and behavioral therapist caught the virus last December. But nearly three months later, she is still haunted by the virus. I wake up at night feeling like I can’t breathe and I’m afraid to go to sleep,” Jimenez-Correa said.
The 60-year-old teacher and behavioral therapist also suffers brain fog, joint and leg pain, crippling headaches and now a new ailment. I have blisters in my mouth and all over my throat,” Jimenez-Correa said. “So, I just started medication for that.