For many people with COVID-19, fatigue is a fairly common symptom. It can make you feel dull and tired, take away your energy, and eat away at your ability to get things done. Depending on the seriousness of your COVID-19 infection, it may last 2 to 3 weeks. But for some people with a severe infection, the brain fog-like fatigue and pain can linger for weeks or months. It may last even after your COVID-19 infection clears up.
After a solid 13 hours of sleep, broken only by a dream within a dream and frustratingly unsuccessful communication with family members both alive and deceased, I woke to Quan kicking me in the face, like I’m some sort of sucker who doesn’t know he was already fed. I ate the orange Amir left by my bedside, glared at the gorgeous San Diego skyline, and slept for another hour.
Sufferers of Covid Fatigue are encouraged to rest, but not too much. We should let people relieve our burdens, but it’s also important to move, meditate, and eat bananas.
I rushed off to the park and pretended to be doing something other than playing a game on my phone for half an hour before grabbing the kids from school, dropping them at home, and wandering Hillcrest.
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