Those walls and the illness caused so many cracks in the life I was used to; I even had days I didn’t want to live anymore. I know now, these feelings are okay in my coping process.<\/p>
I am going through the process of coping, learning to accept and adapt, to get out as a different person, developing a different set of skills. And I am still learning every day because Long Covid keeps unpredictable.
I think accepting and adapting is comparable with strengthening other skills when you lose, for example, your sense of sight. The extra difficulty with Long Covid, there are no prognoses yet.<\/p>
The coping process, that’s what I’ve been up to the last couple of months. With the tablespoon of energy I have every day, I’ve chosen to stop blogging for a while. More blogs about my journey will be up soon. And maybe, one baby step at a time, I will become as strong as I wanted my alter-ego to be.<\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
During one of my walks, I once thought how convenient … <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":2035,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[440,23,442,18,437],"tags":[410,427,432,429,428,421,431,433,411,416,425,413,436,430,434,424,423,435,420],"featured_image_src":"https:\/\/www.daphneinstockings.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/11\/30DC6E0C-BA25-4EC3-8F05-231B015A7CB7.png","featured_image_src_square":"https:\/\/www.daphneinstockings.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/11\/30DC6E0C-BA25-4EC3-8F05-231B015A7CB7.png","author_info":{"display_name":"Daphne","author_link":"https:\/\/www.daphneinstockings.com\/mystory\/daphne-in-stockings\/author\/admin\/"},"category_info":"Adaptive habits<\/a>, Covid-19<\/a>, Learning backpack<\/a>, Life<\/a>, Reframing my narrative<\/a>","tags_info":"alter-ego<\/a>, balance<\/a>, blogging<\/a>, bumping<\/a>, bumping my head<\/a>, bumps<\/a>, coping<\/a>, coping process<\/a>, covid-19<\/a>, energy<\/a>, flu<\/a>, long covid<\/a>, long covid walls<\/a>, tablespoon of energy<\/a>, trapped<\/a>, treatment plan<\/a>, understanding<\/a>, unpredictable<\/a>, walls<\/a>","social_share_info":"<\/i><\/a><\/i><\/a><\/i><\/a>","wordExcerpt_info":" <\/p>\n During one of my walks, I once thought how convenient it would be to create an alter-ego. <\/p>\n <\/p>\n With Covid and Long Covid, you’ll never know what happens next or when and if you get better. There is no proper diagnosis, prognosis, or treatment plan proven to work.<\/p>\n <\/p>\n <\/p>\n I understood illness with a point of departure, like having the flu. On my last day of having the flu, I always had a good day. That was the day I knew I could work the day after. And then, most of the time, I was back in balance within a week.<\/p>\n <\/p>\n <\/p>\n I have had good days coping with Long Covid. During a good day, I wanted to do all my chores I wasn’t capable of before, like the last day of the flu. And on such a day, I always thought I could go back to work the next day. Those days gave me the most difficult times because I mostly spent all my time in bed the days after. I bumped my head again against the Long Covid wall.<\/p>\n <\/p>\n <\/p>\n The past 20 months have been a search with lots of walls.<\/p>\n <\/p>\n <\/p>\n <\/p>\n <\/p>\n Those walls and the illness caused so many cracks in the life I was used to; I even had days I didn’t want to live anymore. I know now, these feelings are okay in my coping process.<\/p>\n <\/p>\n <\/p>\n I am going through the process of coping, learning to accept and adapt, to get out as a different person, developing a different set of skills. And I am still learning every day because Long Covid keeps unpredictable. <\/p>\n <\/p>\n The coping process, that’s what I’ve been up to the last couple of months. With the tablespoon of energy I have every day, I’ve chosen to stop blogging for a while. More blogs about my journey will be up soon. And maybe, one baby step at a time, I will become as strong as I wanted my alter-ego to be.<\/p>\n <\/p>\n","comment_info":"0","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.daphneinstockings.com\/mystory\/daphne-in-stockings\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2014"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.daphneinstockings.com\/mystory\/daphne-in-stockings\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.daphneinstockings.com\/mystory\/daphne-in-stockings\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.daphneinstockings.com\/mystory\/daphne-in-stockings\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.daphneinstockings.com\/mystory\/daphne-in-stockings\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2014"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/www.daphneinstockings.com\/mystory\/daphne-in-stockings\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2014\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2037,"href":"https:\/\/www.daphneinstockings.com\/mystory\/daphne-in-stockings\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2014\/revisions\/2037"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.daphneinstockings.com\/mystory\/daphne-in-stockings\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2035"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.daphneinstockings.com\/mystory\/daphne-in-stockings\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2014"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.daphneinstockings.com\/mystory\/daphne-in-stockings\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2014"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.daphneinstockings.com\/mystory\/daphne-in-stockings\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2014"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
For me, it was tough to learn to understand Long Covid. One of the most challenging things I’ve experienced in my life. In coping with this alone, I needed someone more vital to help me manage. It was too hard to handle. Nor my body nor my mind was functioning the way they did before Covid.<\/p>\n![\"\"](\"https:\/\/www.daphneinstockings.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/11\/E633D36E-8697-4814-9395-77B19DB3A950.png\")
<\/figure>\n
I think accepting and adapting is comparable with strengthening other skills when you lose, for example, your sense of sight. The extra difficulty with Long Covid, there are no prognoses yet.<\/p>\n