“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.”