Tanya

Recently diagnosed

Age at interview: 46

Tanya has been suffering with long-COVID symptoms for almost five months, such as tingling and numbness in her body, headaches, sensitivity to sound and light, and digestive issues. Tanya has learned that many physicians have little to no knowledge about long-COVID, which has led to her having to do her own research about potential treatments and coping mechanisms. However, Tanya wishes that there was more services available to people living with long-COVID that are focused on treating the condition rather than simply focusing on coping mechanisms. Tanya’s goal is to improve her health and get back to her normal self so that she can start enjoying all aspects of her life again, including family, work and socializing. Tanya wishes that there was more acknowledgement about long-COVID in Canada and that funding and resources are made available to focus on learning more about this condition and developing a treatment.

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• Mental Health Support – Tanya
  Tanya doubts that mental health support would help unless the provider had experienced long COVID themselves.
• Symptoms of Long COVID – Tanya
  Tanya has a range of symptoms that come and go.
• Advice to Policy Makers – Tanya
  Tanya contrasts the intense public messaging around acute COVID with the relative silence around long COVID.
• Support From Employers, Colleagues, and Worker’s Compensation Boards – Tanya
  Tanya can't understand why her coworkers are able to set their own schedules but her illness can't be accommodated.
• Advice to Healthcare Providers – Tanya
  Tanya urges doctors to actively listen to patients.
• Impacts on Children and Parenting – Tanya
  Tanya worries about the burden long COVID puts on her children.
• Impacts on Partners and Households – Tanya
  Tanya's husband is now the one who has to do it all.
• Psychosocial Impacts – Tanya
  Tanya grieves the healthy, mobile person she used to be.