Does anyone else have a hard time adjusting back to life after Covid-19?

[Anonymous]

I still feel weird and get some anxiety, whenever I talk to people, after wearing a mask and living in isolation for so long (plus where I live masks are still mandatory in public transportation)

It seems that everyone moved on really fast, people have forgotten about this

[DJB72]

People have short memories these days.

My "adjustment" is atypical. I have a permanent reminder because Covid cost me my leg. Two years later I still have fatigue and a slew of "minor" symptoms. My memory is bad, I tire easily, my concentration is worse, my taste has never gone back to pre-covid and I now have cardiac and kidney checks regularly because a three month coma and four hours CPR will fuck up your internal organs.

Ironically the only thing that made a 100% recovery is my lungs, although the cardiologist says the checkups are just routine for two years after cardiac arrest. Losing my leg was inconvenient but after the coma it was the leg or my life.

And Covid is still out there. People forget, but just in the USA there's still something like 400 a day dying from it. That's still over ten times seasonal flu.

[Asker]

Oh my God a three month coma? You mean you were in life support in the hospital for three months cause of Covid? I'm so sorry for your leg, that's really sad
Obviously, these people never got Covid, or had very light symptoms.
I had a fever for several days but fortunately it subsided with remdesivir

[DJB72]

Yes. I was on life support most of the three months. They tried to withdraw it but apparently I couldn't breathe unaided. Eventually I stabilised, they were able to take me off the ventilator and then my heart stopped. Four hours CPR later and it started again.

I was unconscious another two weeks, woke up, spent ten days in ICU to be sure I was ok then moved to a physical rehabilitation center. A week after that I was back in ICU having my leg amputated before the infection killed me.

Remdesvir - an ARV used in HIV primarily - isn't fully effective and not effective at all against the earliest strains.

I was in hospital a total of 9 months. The leg is inconvenient, but I get the chance to see my son grow up so I'm not too bothered.

[Anonymous]

I had such a hard time going back to work at first. I was on unemployment for months bc everything was shut down. When I finally did go back to work I realized I couldn’t stay at that job anymore so I quit within the 2nd month of going back. After that I really struggled with finding work that I liked. I just started hating working in general lol. I’ve now finally settled at a job that will hopefully be the one I can work my way up in.


Maybe I’ll try to do work from home in the future, but for now I like having a reason to go out again and have a reason to socialize lol. Even though being in quarantine getting nice after awhile.

[LazerBean]

I live in a smallish town in the south, so covid never changed very much for us.