Health
‘I can’t walk to the top of the stairs’: ‘Long COVID’ truth – Observer
Despite ‘recovering’ from COVID-19, many survivors are now being hit with a debilitating collection of ailments that is stopping them from moving on.
It used to be that Gary Macpherson could pull a golf cart around 18 holes without effort. He’d climb the six flights of stairs to his rooftop garden in inner-Brisbane’s Newstead, no puffing required. He’d eat and drink what he liked.
That was before he keeled over in the emergency department of the Royal Brisbane and Women’s Hospital on March 30 last year, his body in the early stages of battling COVID-19. Before he spent six weeks in intensive care, most of that in an induced coma, as an army of…
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