Opinion | 1,374 Days: My Life With Long Covid
Chronic illness has a way of picking apart your mind and breaking your heart.
β1,374 Days: My Life With Long Covidβ
This is a stunning and insightful article by an info designer who provides a harrowing account of their journey with long Covid & how it turned their life upside down.
Highlights in thread below, but worth reading in its entirety for the data-driven visuals π§΅
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Heading states: Science article writing application form
Underneath, it reads: #MEAction is hiring for short-term work in scientific writing. This seasonal position is just for the month of December and part of January. We are looking for people with a background in scientific writing. This application requires a CV and a writing sample.
Ready?
Are you a science writer? Are you familiar with ME/CFS? Are you looking to make extra holiday funds?
#MEAction is looking to hire some folks for short-term work to spruce up existing articles and add new sources!
HMU: forms.gle/SmWo3ezaGkdp...
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Screenshot of abstract
New from Latvia:
Exploring the Joint Potential of Inflammation, Immunity, and Receptor-Based Biomarkers for Evaluating ME/CFS Progression
Only abstract currently available:
www.frontiersin.org/articles/10....
#MyalgicEncephalomyelitis #ChronicFatigueSyndrome #MEcfs #CFS #PwME #MyalgicE
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Donate - #MEAction Network
This Giving Tuesday, I hope you will consider #MEAction!
We fight every day for people with ME/CFS & Long COVID. With your help, we can continue our inside-outside advocacy. Join us as we protest, advocate, then roll up our sleeves to directly improve research & clinical care.
meaction.net/donate
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Graphic highlighting the multi-systemic nature of post-exertional malaise, that it triggers symptoms in the sensory, autonomic, cognitive, pain, immune, neuromuscular, energy & metabolic systems, and that PEM is not fatigue or deconditioning.
Excellent new #mecfs paper by Mayo Clinic & #MEAction. Includes this brilliant graphic, which clearly shows that PEM is not just fatigue. Well done, Jaime! @exceedhergrasp1.bsky.social
www.mayoclinicproceedings.org/article/S002...
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Congratulations Jaime!
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Bed-bound activist with severe ME/CFS.
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Editor, translator, filmmaker. Recovering academic. Leftist. Perfumista. ME/CFS, MCAS, POTS. EN/FR. She/they. DMV. More some days than others.
Author of Through the Shadowlands: A Science Writer's Odyssey into an Illness Science Doesn't Understand. I mostly write about complex chronic illness and math. Bylines in NYT, WashPost, Discover, Wired, Slate, Stat News, Science News, lots more. She/her.
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