English teacher; writer; impatient Long Covid patient
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Ted Monroe
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Seeing Double –
"A few days ago... I had sudden onset diplopia... all now fractured into a great optical orchestra like a cubist painting by Braque or Picasso."
#longcovid #MyalgicEncephalomyelitis #chronicillness
Life with a chronic illness is crushingly transactional. I had a lovely yesterday with Mrs K - IKEA! Bao buns! Giggling over fake tan in Boots! - but today I pay the price. #MECFS
My essay on #LongCovid is published in this delightful edition of On Being Ill, with Woolf’s original essay and essays and poetry from 11 contemporary writers. Book out 2nd June
'Nothing can inspire sympathy for Roald Dahl’s indomitable child-hater, Miss Trunchbull, like teaching in a school.'
#LongCovid #ME/CFS
'Nothing can inspire sympathy for Roald Dahl’s indomitable child-hater, Miss Trunchbull, like teaching in a school.'
#LongCovid #ME/CFS
My essay on #LongCovid is included in a new edition of Virginia Woolf's 'On Being Ill' from The New Menard Press - alongside the works of 11 other contemporary writers. Book out on June 2nd. Pre-order here: www.waterstones.com/book/on-bein...
My essay on #LongCovid is included in a new edition of Virginia Woolf's 'On Being Ill' from The New Menard Press - alongside the works of 11 other contemporary writers. Book out on June 2nd. Pre-order here: www.waterstones.com/book/on-bein...
Confessions of a Long Covid Convalescent
"Reader, I declined. This was not the kind of symptom relief that I had requested, and I left feeling that there had been a rather profound misunderstanding as what constituted a ‘whole body massage’."
#LongCovid #MECFS #pwme #pwlc
