William's long COVID symptoms emerged over time.

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But in that third week I was starting to do things because I was allowed out of the house, started to do my laundry and go shopping and stuff. And then one day at the end of the week three, so like coming up to a month into it I just wasn’t right. Like I woke up to blurred vision, you know, it was still really difficult to breath, it almost got worse, and there was a lot of other problems that just didn’t go away and kind of arose from nowhere. So that’s when I realized something was wrong and I did some research and found out that I have what’s called long COVID which before, like before all this I had no idea even existed. And from my knowledge of what long COVID is, it’s just like symptoms that persist after COVID which I didn’t know was a thing. I always thought COVID was like bilateral, you either like get it and you recover or you get it and you don’t, and usually the people that don’t are like unhealthy or just unwell. You know I was doing running and stuff, like I had to go through a year of training to get my job which was pretty extensive physically. So I was – I consider myself in really good shape but it doesn’t matter with long COVID apparently it just randomly affects certain people, doesn’t really care about the age. I have seen 13-year-olds that have it; I’ve seen obviously seniors that have it. So – and that’s when my journey began, like my changed life.

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