TheAsianDonKnots

In the early 00’s, we put DSL on a business card shaped cdrw and carried them around. When it would get too hot outside we’d go to the library and boot into Linux, bypassing the software firewalls they were running and download as much music as we could to a tape drive. It took a few weekends to get the drivers and software right but it worked and was so much faster than our home connections. $5 got you top10 hits from any genre you wanted. We thought we were SO smart like we invented bootlegging.

I’ll get the sweet tea.

I got COVID in June of 2022 and by August my heart would frequently race to over 160bpm when simply walking. I was passing out when I stood… just lots of stuff I never associated with COVID.

My cardiologist took all this information and decided to make me run on a treadmill and asked me if I ever exercised before. I woke up on a tilt table gasping for air with 6 people around me. Doctors at the time didn’t have this information and it took me years to become brave enough to see a doctor again (medical ptsd). My wife left me because she said I just stopped doing anything around the house. My job is suffering, and my family just wants me to walk it off.

Now, because I went untreated for so long, my circulatory system is falling apart but the new doctors are finally believing me and there has been a lot of research into what long COVID is and isn’t. I’ve been diagnosed with POTS & chronic fatigue syndrome. No medical professional is saying there’s a cure for me and I’ve had two heart attacks in three years but I’m hopeful.