{"id":846,"date":"2022-09-21T21:51:00","date_gmt":"2022-09-21T21:51:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/gregmaxwell.net\/?p=846"},"modified":"2025-08-21T19:48:18","modified_gmt":"2025-08-21T19:48:18","slug":"long-covid","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/gregmaxwell.net\/index.php\/2022\/09\/21\/long-covid\/","title":{"rendered":"Long Covid~"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-full\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"275\" height=\"183\" src=\"https:\/\/gregmaxwell.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/09\/fman.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-848\"\/><figcaption>The days are getting brighter.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-black-color has-text-color wp-block-paragraph\">Obviously the title is about the subject. The subject is&#8230;<br><br>As of this posting, I have had Covid19 a total of five times. With each one being different from the rest&#8230;saving the first to be the worse. It was in November 2019, before it ever had a name. I had an undetermined &#8220;upper respiratory infection&#8221; as diagnosed by the doctor. I was living alone and working 60 hours a week at factory. I was dealing with an infection with an ingrown toenail. <br><br>I thought I had a black mold infection, but &#8230;.in hindsight, I had the Covid toes, the loss of taste and smell, along with a perpetuating headache. I had the cough so bad, that I had to hang up from phone calls from time to time. Yes, I was bedridden two days with a fever. My workplace was new for me. I lasted a month. I could not continue. But that is another story for another day.<br><br>The truth is, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theatlantic.com\/health\/archive\/2022\/09\/long-covid-brain-fog-symptom-executive-function\/671393\/?utm_source=pocket-newtab\"> Long Covid brain fog<\/a> is real and has exacerbated my already elevated anxiety. What does one do? You gotta Vote&#8230;..clear your mind, make some THIRD PARTY choices on Election Day.  The fog and the truth in politics are real. Sometimes you gotta laugh, to keep from cryin.<br><br>Liberty on Purpose.<br>Blessings<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Obviously the title is about the subject. The subject is&#8230; As of this posting, I have had Covid19 a total [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":847,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[1,11,5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-846","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news","category-politics","category-reflections"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/gregmaxwell.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/09\/fog.jpg","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/gregmaxwell.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/846","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/gregmaxwell.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/gregmaxwell.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gregmaxwell.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gregmaxwell.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=846"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/gregmaxwell.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/846\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":849,"href":"https:\/\/gregmaxwell.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/846\/revisions\/849"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gregmaxwell.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/847"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/gregmaxwell.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=846"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gregmaxwell.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=846"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gregmaxwell.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=846"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}