Cher's life has been significantly reduced by long COVID.
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I can breathe, and yes, my heart still works, and yes, I can get myself to the bathroom and back. But pretty much everything else in my life I’m not able to do. I can’t walk down the stairs, I can’t get to the end of my hallway, so I’m pretty much stuck in my room all the time, and in my bed most of the time. Because the POTS, the postural orthostatic tachycardia syndrome, when you’re sitting up or standing, you will often just faint, or you feel so awful that you make yourself lay down. And so – yeah. When you can’t sit or stand, that significantly reduces the things that you can do in your life.
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