This athlete has been benched for 15 months because of Covid-19 related symptoms including dysautonomia.

“I am 33, but now I feel like I have the lungs of a 75-year-old.”

My whole life I was told I had a mental health disorder and my problems were all in my head. When I found out that it was Narcolepsy and Cataplexy and it could be fixed, it changed my life. I had five good years like that. Then, COVID-19 happened and my whole world changed again.

“Compared to MS, my COVID experience is nothing. I've had a cold that was worse. It was just an inconvenience.”

After 17 weeks of unexplainable, ongoing symptoms, Monica was diagnosed with COVID-induced lupus and is still fighting for workmen's compensation despite catching COVID at work.

“Ambulances and firetrucks arrived that night around 09:30PM. I sat downstairs in the pouring rain. The medics stood far away shouting, ‘Mam stay there. We’ll come to you!’ It felt like I had the plague or something. I watched them suit up. Then, I crawled my way up the steps into the ambulance. That evening I tested positive for COVID-19.”

“Three months after recovering, COVID reignited my rare autoimmune skin condition.”

“My body could not have survived this in the state it is in without the hand of God intervening.”

"The second day in the hospital, my health started to decline. It's as if my body was starting to shut down. I felt like death was in my room. I literally felt like I was dying..."

“I was diagnosed May 16, 2016 with Multiple sclerosis (MS). I've had it since 2006 undiagnosed. I managed it up until recently with COVID.”

“My body doesn’t respond to bacteria and viruses in the way a healthy person’s immune system responds. You’re supposed to fight it. I kind of invite it over for lunch and help it hurt me.”