Lesley finds uncertainty about the possible long-term effects of long COVID to be frightening.

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I think one of the scariest things, psychologically, is not knowing what’s going to happen and then seeing like – you know for the most part if you get a diagnosis of let’s say diabetes, you have a relative trajectory of what can happen, of course it can go extreme. But you mostly know what your day to day is going to look like. This, you just don’t – nobody knows and then you see a headline that says life expectancy is said to be shortened by 15 years in people with long COVID. Or early onset dementia likely with – in cases of you know brain changes. So that’s – you know you have to be very mindful about not going down those rabbit holes of what ifs because you have to sort of use the scenario like well what if I get hit by a bus tomorrow? OK. Like we don’t know what’s going to happen, but that is scary because you just don’t know if this is going to evolve into something else.

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