Please Listen to My Story 

Hello my friends, I am doing the unthinkable, because the unthinkable happened. After experiencing Covid at the beginning of this year which left me out of work for 2 weeks, I tried to go back to work, in the salon, only to have it completely backfire on me.
My experience with Covid was incredibly interesting and bizarre. After isolation with intense fever, sweating , body aches, a feeling like shingles in my back for the first 3 days, I thought I was getting better. I was wrong. On the fourth day, in the middle of the night, I collapsed on ground, blacked out, had a seizure and peed myself. I felt like I had died, but something told me to wake up. I immediately called 911, in complete delirium. An ambulance came to retrieve me as I nearly collapsed again with a blood pressure reading of 90/50 and some concerns about my heart. When I got to the Emergency Room. They left me without any care for 3 hours, until someone came to test me for covid. A few hours later a doctor came by briefly for 30 seconds to tell me I’m covid Positive and inform me they were discharging me out of the hospital. I struggled to find transportation as I did not want to expose my covid to anyone.
during those next 10 days, I experienced a wide range of symptoms, which included the feeling of countless long needles stabbing me in the muscles in my back. Waves of hot, cold, chills and extreme fatigue. I was terrified of being alone after my black out on day 4, and it just so happened a few other friends got covid at the same time as me, so I was fortunate enough to quarantine with them during the second week.
On Sunday the 16th, I returned to work in the salon, ignoring the still lingering bizarre pain in my back and arms, praying it would just go away. I was sadly mistaken as it only became worse, every day bringing new sensations. On Friday the 21st of January, I woke to the most extreme pain of my life. I could not move without crying. It felt like the muscles in my back were dissolving. Some of the adjectives to describe the sensation overload: prickly needles with electric shock, burning, stabbing. Stiff, aching, led weights and my arms and back felt like jello, completely useless. I called my doctor right away.. and was extremely fortunate that it just so happened that a pain specialist was available to see me next day. He told me to go on disability and to stop working. Doctor Bromer completely validated me and according to his experience with other patients, says these symptoms could last up to 3 months. I immediately sent in my disability claim as I understand it takes at least 30 days for them to process and to start receiving payments.

Now here’s the worst part, I was previously on disability for 7 months in 2021 with an ankle injury. I have very little disability savings to pull from, which may only cover me for few months. My unemployment has also run dry. 
needless to say, this year has been a serious strain on my physical health, and I have been silently, scraping by and handling it. Now I have exhausted every option and find myself here, on go fund me, shamelessly asking for YOUR help, when I know very well how many are struggling right now…but I figure, I having nothing left to loose. So here it is.

On top of everything you read here, all of these health issues are compounded due to my already pre-existing conditions, which some of you know about. For years I have struggled to work enough hours to survive, why? Because the system we live in is not designed for CHRONICALLY ILL people who often cannot manage a full time schedule in a physically active job. My next step? SSI, which may take years, several denials and appeals to achieve, but I am now realizing, that I am a disabled person pretending to be at the same physically able level as others. Here’s my truth: I’m not. I need extensive time to heal my broken body. I’ve been in denial…But I simply cannot afford to be any longer. 

Thank you to all who took the time to read my story.
Source Bless you - Love & Light ✨

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Here above is a video taken while waiting on the exam table to see a pain specialist. I was incredibly lucky to have a doctor who validated my entire Post-covid experience.

Please read the sourced and cited information below for more information on my debilitating condition:

“The COVID-19 pandemic is associated with a wide range of pathophysiologies. Although SARS-CoV-2 is known primarily as a respiratory virus, a wide range of neurological symptoms have been associated with this virus. Alongside a neurotropic behavior and neuroinvasive properties, the virus may trigger neurological defects by triggering a cytokine storm.

Pre-existing CNS comorbidities and autoimmune diseases place the patients at a higher risk for developing neurological symptoms upon infection. Although many biological parameters including age, the presence of cardiovascular diseases as well as malnutrition and vitamin deficiency are associated with COVID-19; a causal link has not yet been defined.

Current evidence strongly suggests that patients surviving COVID-19 are at high risk for the subsequent development of neurological disease. There are concerns that even when the pandemic is over, SARS-CoV-2 might persist within the CNS and cause chronic and latent infection in a large proportion of the population including those who suffered only mild respiratory symptoms. Further studies are needed to investigate potential correlations between acute or mild COVID-19 infections and long-term neurological effects in the population.”

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