For those of us with any long-covid issues, also know as covid long haulers.
Im 10 months post covid and the brain fog is still very real. As easy as it is to joke about it ,i feel like covid shaved 10 IQ points off ,and I cant afford to lose any!
I wonder if sportswriter/ESPN talking head Bill Plaschke has brain fog from long covid
He caught it early on and the times I've seen him on air he definitely seems a bit off
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Longtime Los Angeles Times sports columnist Bill Plaschke
wrote on Wednesday that he contracted COVID-19 recently and outlined his symptoms and struggles with the virus that has ripped through communities across the U.S.
"My temperature hovered in the upper reaches of 102," Plaschke wrote. "It felt like my head was on fire. One night I sweated through five shirts. I shook so much from the chills I thought I chipped a tooth. My chest felt like LeBron James was sitting on it. My fatigue made it feel as if I was dressed in the chains of Jacob Marley’s ghost. I coughed so hard it felt like I broke a rib."
Plaschke, 61, wrote that he thinks he became infected while meeting friends for two dinners at an outdoor patio with social distancing, in accordance with local ordinances. He also said he had been following rules of self-isolation and had been wearing his mask when needed.
"I would fall asleep in a chair and wake up terrified from a hallucinatory dream where I was chased through a playground by old women with giant heads," he continued. "During phone calls I would get confused and just stop talking. I would begin crying for no reason. I lost my sense of taste, smell, and five pounds in the first four days."
Plaschke also wrote about the mental toll from the virus, how it sparked a pang of fear over his future health, how he contemplated heading to the hospital...........
https://www.usatoday.com/story/spor...bill-plaschke-covid-19-experience/3363766001/
https://www.latimes.com/sports/story/2020-08-12/column-bill-plaschke-covid-19-experience