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P/w Long Covid, writer, nerd, ENM, loudmouth, green thumb, artist, queer, ND, & unstoppable! No alt text= no RT #FBLC

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Gwen B. with LC🦩🥥
28 days
Welcome! I'm Gwen, a disabled Long Covid warrior, advocate, & plant enthusiast, doing my best to survive & support community 🪙 ☕ 💸 🎁 👕 🌴
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Gwen B. with LC🦩🥥
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Okay as a disabled person, the air fryer is a game-changer. I haven't eaten anywhere close to this healthily since before LC. I just air-fried gnocchi with cherry tomatoes and Holy shit I missed fresh hot real food that was cooked and not reheated and rubberized in the microwave
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Gwen B. with LC🦩🥥
1 year
My best friend since grade school who's seen me have a #LongCovid crash where I could hardly walk 20 feet in a day while my hair was falling out in clumps has gone full "LC is depression"
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Gwen B. with LC🦩🥥
5 months
The ONLY way to prevent Long Covid is to prevent COVID. Living with COVID means living with protections.
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Gwen B. with LC🦩🥥
2 months
It is important to note that h5n1 can remain alive and infectious in water for over 100 days.
@MeetJess
Jess
2 months
Bird flu has been detected in some birds found in New York City parks and green spaces. Health officials are growing more concerned about the disease and warn New Yorkers to keep their distance from wildlife.
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Gwen B. with LC🦩🥥
2 years
I had a Dr appointment set up for #LongCovid but then I lost my job because I have long COVID and thus also lost my health insurance... Which I needed for my Dr appointment... So Awesome system we have here. No flaws. 10/10
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Gwen B. with LC🦩🥥
3 months
When the disabled and immunocompromised tell you we are being killed for seeking medical care it's not hyperbole This is not the first medically vulnerable person to be locked up for trying to protect themselves from the 5th leading cause of death globally.
@CovidintheChart
Covid Diaries by HCW's 🍉
3 months
Patient Care Tech in CO: "I'm devastated. Last night at work, a patient who was very covid cautious and immunocompromised came into ER with a 4-day migraine, with days of vomiting, unable to eat, etc. She even planned it for 3 am. trying to hit the Er off peak. /1
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Gwen B. with LC🦩🥥
2 years
I didn't have covid that bad it was like a bad cold with a lot of sweating and I slept the whole time. There have been so many days I wish I hadn't survived my initial infection. It just keeps getting worse #LongCovid
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Gwen B. with LC🦩🥥
2 months
Adobe removed all of the respirator, SARS, COVID, and mask shapes I had been using to make awareness graphics. So now I need a new program It has to work on my phone so its accessible and can't be Canva because I am anti genocide.
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Gwen B. with LC🦩🥥
6 months
If "New COVID" is what people need to hear to take COVID seriously without losing face Fuck it Whatever works
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Gwen B. with LC🦩🥥
2 months
Everyone dying of COVID complications like strokes, heart attacks, and blood clots are being killed by Long Covid before they figure out they have LC That's ALL Long Covid and people are trying to protect their ignorance so they can pretend everything can go back to normal
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Sam Ghali, M.D.
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What’s your unpopular medical opinion that would land you in this position? Drop it in this thread
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Gwen B. with LC🦩🥥
2 months
So we all remember why lettuce gets recalled for E. coli so often right? And we know H5N1 can survive and be infectious in water for quite some time... I don't know so I have to ask Is there a good reason this won't be an eventual problem?
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Gwen B. with LC🦩🥥
5 months
✨Masking is worker solidarity✨ ✨Wearing a KN95 or better is community care in action✨ #MaskUp #KN95OrBetter
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Gwen B. with LC🦩🥥
2 months
New deal: Any place I am not allowed to mask in I am just going to light up and start smoking. Watch people figure out how shared air works with a swiftness.
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Gwen B. with LC🦩🥥
3 months
I'm having a really hard time mustering sympathy for HCWs who want us to recognize how bad the pandemic "was" for them while they refuse to recognize how bad IT IS for the disabled and immunocompromised who can no longer safely access medical care due to their refusal to wear PPE
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Gwen B. with LC🦩🥥
1 year
It's not just about protecting yourself from COVID-19. Wearing a KN95 shows that you care about the well-being of those around you. Intelligence, compassion, wisdom, solidarity, and #SafeIsSexy ! 😘 #CommunityCare #MaskUp #COVIDisAirborne
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Gwen B. with LC🦩🥥
1 year
When you wear a KN95, you're not just protecting yourself from COVID-19 - you're also protecting those around you. Let's make community care a priority by #MaskingUp with style and confidence. #SafeIsSexy #MasksAreEasier #LongCovid
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Gwen B. with LC🦩🥥
6 months
All work that can be done remotely should be done remotely.
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Gwen B. with LC🦩🥥
1 year
Our friendship survived her mother starting a surprise fistfight with me in the delivery room while she was in labor. Just outta nowhere But it can't survive #LongCovid and #MEcfs At every stage when you become more disabled you will lose people. Some of them will shock you.
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Gwen B. with LC🦩🥥
1 year
A friend of mine has just been admitted to the hospital. He can no longer stand up without passing out. He's medically vulnerable AF and they are not masking at the hospital. He started a group chat with his closest friends to keep us in the loop just in case they kill him.
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Gwen B. with LC🦩🥥
3 months
The blood clots ARE part of the Long Covid. Drs are killing people with Long Covid by not keeping up.
@1goodtern
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"Woman, 30, Dies After Blood Clot Symptoms Were Dismissed Twice as 'Long COVID and Anxiety'" 👉The minimisation of Long Covid by medical professionals can have fatal consequences.
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Gwen B. with LC🦩🥥
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My name is Gwen, and until my first COVID infection on Jan 8th, 2022, I worked in HR for WA state through UWMC. During the early days of the pandemic, my main departments were Respiratory Care Services, where I spent an incredible amount of time processing raises for every 🧵
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Gwen B. with LC🦩🥥
2 years
One of the parts of #LongCovid I don't talk about much is how much of the time I wish covid had killed me. It's worse when the brain fog clears because I'm more acutely aware of how much this has destroyed everything I had built and worked towards my whole life.
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Gwen B. with LC🦩🥥
8 months
Today when I went out I wore my Flo mask and had some backup KN95s in my bag. By the time I made it home, I was down 2 KN95s, and the door guy at the dispensary I go to added a Flo mask to his wish list It was a good masking outreach day People are getting sick of getting sick
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Gwen B. with LC🦩🥥
3 months
I have been immunocompromised since I was 10 years old. I was the sickest kid on our street and in my school. It was never as bad as some of the parents are describing. This is not and has never been normal since the advent of modern medicine.
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Lucy Huber
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The amount you get sick when you have small kids in the winter is literally so unbelievable I don't know how to describe it to people who don't have children. They wouldn't believe me. I wouldn't have believed me.
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Gwen B. with LC🦩🥥
2 months
If we are going to bring back dying of consumption we should bring back the cough medicine with opium in it. It's only fair and if the health system goes down...
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Gwen B. with LC🦩🥥
1 year
This new belief that it's just depression contradicts her personal lived experience watching me struggle to breathe or walk fingers and feet turning blue while my toenails and hair were coming off. She's shifted right and decided to edit history.
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Gwen B. with LC🦩🥥
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On my way to get my Novavax shot. I am crossing my everything that this goes really well and helps alleviate some of my Long Covid symptoms instead of taking 6 months to recover from like the mRNA I got after developing LC.
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Gwen B. with LC🦩🥥
2 years
@PetreRaleigh I think it's a mistake to negotiate like this. Let them know what industry we are coming for next and we won't stop until all is forgiven and higher education is accessible to all.
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Gwen B. with LC🦩🥥
5 months
None of the people who tried to pressure me into ignoring COVID safety for them has contributed to or supported my survival since being disabled by Long Covid. Not one.
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Gwen B. with LC🦩🥥
6 months
”You're living in fear" No, you ignorant mother-f-er I am living in reality. I am an immunocompromised person who's had debilitating Long Covid since my single mild infection. I am more aware of the risks and consequences than you are and better informed as I am living them.
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Gwen B. with LC🦩🥥
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#LongCovid IS the clots killing people after COVID #LongCovid IS the early onset dementia wave #LongCovid IS the unending sickness of immune system dysregulation #LongCovid IS the brain damage ending careers and flight plans #LongCovid IS the spiked death rate after COVID
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Gwen B. with LC🦩🥥
1 year
Hi, I am Gwen from Seattle. I wear a mask to protect myself and others. I know the devastating consequences of contracting COVID-19 and developing Long Covid. I will do what is necessary to prevent it from happening to others and stop as much death and disability as possible. 💜
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Keith
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Hi. I’m Keith. I live in Canada and I refuse to accept that infections and reinfections are inevitable - I will continue do my utmost to break chains of transmission. What about you?
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Gwen B. with LC🦩🥥
6 months
I am not liking how my weekly COVID test is looking after the timer went off. Now it's time to find out Can immunocompromised actually access the tools we've been told make COVID dealwithable.
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Gwen B. with LC🦩🥥
1 year
We were always each other's support person when our parents would gaslight us. We had a very close bond because we relied on each other to be each other's anchors to reality despite the images our families tried to project. So this feels... I'm in shock and not surprised and..WTF
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Gwen B. with LC🦩🥥
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Wishing every attendee who only purchased tickets because of the mandatory masking policy a very happy charge back season Call your bank if they won't refund you and changed safety policies that exclude you after purchase Bait and switch sales should never have a body count
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FanimeCon
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FanimeCon is changing our masking policy from “required” to “strongly recommended” due to feedback from our attendees, staff, and local health partners. Some events may require mandatory masking due space issues and bigger crowds. For more info
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Gwen B. with LC🦩🥥
6 months
If you had just tested positive for COVID and were going to place a small grocery order (besides an electrolyte drink) what would you get?
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Gwen B. with LC🦩🥥
1 year
She was the one who taught me how to stuff my bra in Jr high. She would sneak me cool clothes in her backpack to change into at school my religious parents would have killed us over. I taught her the quarter trick to get all the channels. I thought that she was a forever person.
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Gwen B. with LC🦩🥥
1 year
@pxnzischemes I've been trying to share more glamorized pictures of people masking and framing it as community care and being safe makes people more attractive because #SafeIsSexy
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Gwen B. with LC🦩🥥
11 months
🚨 PETITION ALERT 🚨 We demand @innoutburger to reverse their dangerous PPE policy! Protect workers' rights, prioritize safety! #WorkersRights #COVIDIsntOver #MassDisablingEvent Sign now:
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Gwen B. with LC🦩🥥
1 month
Our government knew that COVID caused long-term disability in an alarming percentage of the population, yet they chose to let it rip and sacrifice citizens in order to keep the economy moving. Essential workers, once disabled, were rendered not essential but sacrificial.
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Gwen B. with LC🦩🥥
1 year
This month has sucked.
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Gwen B. with LC🦩🥥
7 months
I am watching the way that women and sexuality are being spoken about in the Long Covid community and I have concerns. As someone whose survival while disabled has relied heavily on OF while also balancing being an advocate y'all are making it hard to feel safe in the community.
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Gwen B. with LC🦩🥥
8 months
@wendyisacsson I mask everywhere because I have Long Covid and am taking no chances of it getting worse with a second infection. It's already stolen too much from me.
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Gwen B. with LC🦩🥥
1 year
I didn't have joint hypermobility before I had #COVID . Everything you think you know about #LongCovid is wrong.
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Gwen B. with LC🦩🥥
2 months
Ladies let this serve as your reminder to stay current with all your vaccines and boosters. Their protection is even broader than previously thought. #UnintentionalPublicHealthHero
@TateNews_
Tate News
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I don’t sleep with vaccinated women.
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Gwen B. with LC🦩🥥
1 year
This is what disabled people experience when they need to access medical care now. This is eugenics in action.
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Gwen B. with LC🦩🥥
1 year
She has my entire collection of carnivorous plants and all of my rarest and the plants with the most sentimental value. Being threatened to have them thrown away has been a source of autistic meltdowns. I'll never be able to replace that dome or the time. I have 3 plants left
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Gwen B. with LC🦩🥥
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@BaneOfCovid @Suzanne43554675 If she doesn't have one she's fuuuuucked Because how is she going to prove she hasn't been illegally overcharging you for rent this whole time You're going to be okay. Document everything. Talk as little as possible. Make sure you have that lawyer.
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Gwen B. with LC🦩🥥
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You have not made a Risk Assessment You have made a vibe assessment based on wishful thinking Good luck with your spring cold, allergies, summer cold, summer allergies, and whatever other comforting lies you tell yourself to continue ignoring COVID.
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Gwen B. with LC🦩🥥
10 months
The bad news: You can develop Long Covid from an asymptomatic infection. The worse news: The NIH is fucking lying about the existence of treatment options or Drs who have a clue what to do for people with complicated illnesses like Long Covid
@nihceal
NIH Community Engagement Alliance
10 months
Some people don't feel sick when they have #COVID19 but develop symptoms of #LongCOVID later on. If this sounds familiar, speak with your health care provider to find a treatment plan that works for you. Learn more about Long COVID at
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Gwen B. with LC🦩🥥
1 year
@ahouse4all I'm pretty sure that my great-grandfather killed his brother (her first husband) for beating my great-grandmother. Everyone just said he disappeared one night after getting crazy and no one ever heard from him again.
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Gwen B. with LC🦩🥥
1 year
I get tired of repeating myself so here's a picture. #LongCovid predates the vaccines. Feel free to look that up instead of being a sucker repeating lies so obvious everyone is embarrassed for you.
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Gwen B. with LC🦩🥥
1 month
The Long Covid crisis is a national emergency. As long as it remains an undeclared national emergency, there's no access to the urgently needed support—research funds, prevention infrastructure/equip, emergency relief funds for those harmed—leaving people to die without hope.
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Gwen B. with LC🦩🥥
1 year
@1goodtern It's only a weird party trick you can do with your hands until you understand how very very bad it is. I didn't have joint hypermobility before I had #COVID .
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Gwen B. with LC🦩🥥
1 year
Playing make-believe instead of facing the reality that #CovidIsNotOver kills people. People who catch COVID in the hospital are approximately twice as likely to die. Death is not the only life-ending result that a COVID infection can leave you with.
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Gwen B. with LC🦩🥥
2 months
So I just saw the targeted harassment list... and all the people who liked it and YIKES!!! Do I feel less safe being in community with a whole lot of you now Posting a public list to direct targeted harassment at people who've been disabled by COVID is so inappropriate and gross
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Gwen B. with LC🦩🥥
1 year
I spent the first two years of the pandemic shielding as an #immunocompromised person. My boyfriend's roommate decided none of that mattered more than going skiing with friends unmasked in the car ride. Roommates fine. I've been #Disabled by #LongCovid and can no longer work.
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Gwen B. with LC🦩🥥
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@CraftyCatDad I wonder if @dieworkwear would weigh in on how tragic it would be to see so much beautiful hand made fashion history be destroyed like it was fast fashion.
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Gwen B. with LC🦩🥥
6 months
Post Novavax Long Covid recovery milestones I put away all the laundry, washed my hair, did a bunch of work on LongCovid AidBot, and I am going to paint more today after a nap All without hitting the wall Feeling pretty positive
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Gwen B. with LC🦩🥥
1 month
As a multidisabled immunocompromised person, successful shielding throughout the pandemic was necessary. Sadly the person who infected me trusted government guidance that outdoor transmission was not a concern, ultimately ending my functional life.
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Gwen B. with LC🦩🥥
2 years
#LongCovidCrash day 10. Too tired to do anything and in too much pain to get good rest. I am doing what I can about it and at some point, I have to eat so I can take the rest of my meds but everything sounds bad and I don't want to eat it. It's also a bad brain day. #LongCovid
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Gwen B. with LC🦩🥥
2 years
@DonEford What we are doing right now is learning to be silently disabled and die with COVID with as little inconvenience to our employers as possible.
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Gwen B. with LC🦩🥥
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person authorized to touch an ECMO machine. At the time of my first exposure to COVID, I was up to date with my vaccines, trusting CDC misinformation that breakthrough infections were incredibly rare and outdoor transmission did not occur.
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Gwen B. with LC🦩🥥
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Since becoming disabled, I've lost the ability to work, support myself, and complete many of my ADLs on a regular basis. Forced to survive on Mutual Aid in living conditions detrimental to my health and recovery, I've lost everything
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Gwen B. with LC🦩🥥
3 months
"roughly four million people are out of work because of Long Covid, resulting in around $200 billion each year in lost wages. Yet the economic burden of Long Covid continues to be widely overlooked." #LongCovid #LongCovidAwarenessDay
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Gwen B. with LC🦩🥥
10 months
There's something very freeing about finding a way to reclaim the things you can do for yourself when you're able to accommodate your needs. I am so very grateful to everyone who helped me be able to accommodate my return to the kitchen and regaining some control over what I eat
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Gwen B. with LC🦩🥥
3 months
Weird dumb Long Covid recovery milestone I am trying not to happy cry over. My hair is in a ponytail for the first time in over a year. I don't ever want COVID again I would rather have hair.
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Gwen B. with LC🦩🥥
1 year
People paying attention: So... We've blown past a million dead and it's not showing any signs of slowing. Is there a plan? CDC: Yes! We have a brilliant plan. We are going to make the map greener. Green is good.
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Gwen B. with LC🦩🥥
1 month
My demands will only grow louder and more forceful as more people in my community die of unmet needs, medical abandonment, abuse, and outdated medical practices that are nothing less than torture We need a bigger umbrella to protect everyone, focusing on demanding more and better
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Gwen B. with LC🦩🥥
2 months
Within moments of accidentally opening FB instead of dismissing the notification I choose violence
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Gwen B. with LC🦩🥥
1 year
We need to clear up something very important: Long Covid is a disability. Having had COVID is also a disability even if people don't connect the dots to their new diabetes, stroke, early onset dementia, immune dysregulation, heart attack, or sudden death.
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Gwen B. with LC🦩🥥
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The sacrificed deserve and need support to survive to see a cure. The people who chose to sacrifice them and everyone killed by COVID owe them nothing less.
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Gwen B. with LC🦩🥥
1 year
I do not understand Long Covid advocates defending the 12-symptom study and point system. It's not even a list of the most debilitating symptoms. Half of the list are symptoms that can be managed but it leaves off life-destroying ones. Whose agenda does that serve? #Minimizers
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Gwen B. with LC🦩🥥
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Family quilts, family dish sets, book collection, all my art, clothing patterns I had designed and hand drafted, an extensive hand dawn history of fashion (A.D-1970s), sewing machines, fabric, furniture, every treasured heirloom, memento, and photograph of people passed.
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Gwen B. with LC🦩🥥
3 months
Gaslighting your medically vulnerable disabled spouse and pressuring them into further harm and risk of death for brunch is such a wild take to share with the world (on NPR of all places) but I am glad you documented it
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Gwen B. with LC🦩🥥
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@RealGayArbys Hi, my name is Gwen and now that I've been disabled by COVID I am a Long Covid advocate. I love(ed) painting, drawing, origami, writing, archery, sewing, fashion design, mushrooming for chanterelles, gardening, the gym, baking, knitting, music, dancing, and writing sexy poetry.
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Gwen B. with LC🦩🥥
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I almost died today and #LongCovid would have been responsible. I am in a crash, got sick, and had to rinse off. I don't know how the shower rod stayed up when I didn't. Your Long Covid symptoms ending your life can end up being labeled a lot of things. If I die it was of LC.
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Gwen B. with LC🦩🥥
1 year
@Helen_Whately The number of times this graphic has come in handy because it's an accurate response is so depressing.
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Gwen B. with LC🦩🥥
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A little over 2 years ago my boyfriend's roommate brought home COVID and it "mildly" ended my life. I had been successfully shielding as a disabled immunocompromised person until that point. I've been #LiveTweetingMySocialMurder to warning people ever since #LongCovidAwarenesDay
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Gwen B. with LC🦩🥥
1 year
Protecting our communities is an act of love and compassion. Wearing a KN95 is a simple way to show that you care. Let's make it and sunscreen a beautiful summer habit. #SafeIsSexy #CommunityCare #MaskUp
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Gwen B. with LC🦩🥥
5 months
Today is the second anniversary of the COVID infection that destroyed my body, health, and life. I have never recovered I've lost everything that was dear to me including and maybe most importantly my independence. Tomorrow when I wake I start year 3
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Gwen B. with LC🦩🥥
1 year
I don't know what sort of #ChristmasMiracle I got hit with but I am not in a #LongCovid #MECFS crash! And I've done things that have easily put me in a crash! I've been able to shower every day this week! I took a cab to my partners! I was awake yesterday and the mental energy
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Gwen B. with LC🦩🥥
11 months
A very common Long Covid dilemma: You need food Food requires preparation Preparation requires standing Standing requires energy But you have #LongCovid so you don't have that much energy without hurting yourself more.
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Gwen B. with LC🦩🥥
4 months
To be completely clear: 🔴The Long Covid crisis is the next AIDS crisis 🔴This time we let it rip through every college, high school, elementary/grade school, kindergarten, preschool, daycare, and NICU 🔴The Long Covid crisis is just starting #LCNationalEmergency @SenateHELP
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Gwen B. with LC🦩🥥
6 months
Post #Novavax #LongCovid recovery update: I've had a coffee this morning about an hour and a half ago and it's not set off my HR or a panic attack. I've F ing missed coffee so much This gives me hope that my body will recover enough to tolerate my ADHD meds again ✨Excite✨
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Gwen B. with LC🦩🥥
8 months
It's me I was immunocompromised before I got Long Covid so it's been a rough almost 4 years. I go months at a time with no physical contact with another person. My primary love language is physical affection I am slowly losing my mind and need a hug that lasts for a week
@theBrianaMills
Briana Mills, LMFT ♿️🏳️‍🌈
8 months
We don’t talk enough about how touch starved high risk people are due to COVID. All humans need some form of physical touch in one way or another. It helps many feel connected. We all deserve to feel that and it’s hard to not have it because many refuse to take COVID seriously.
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Gwen B. with LC🦩🥥
7 months
Genocide Joe started out as eugenics Joe. He was all too willing to sacrifice the disabled and vulnerable.
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Gwen B. with LC🦩🥥
1 month
This is getting enough notifications to be stressful so it's time to plug something: Please go support @LongCovidAidBot and everyone it shares. Help me support the most vulnerable in my community. If you need support respond to the📌🧵 People are dying Direct support saves lives
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Gwen B. with LC🦩🥥
2 years
Fun times. I have been disabled by #LongCovid and can't work. I can't collect UI I paid into because I am disabled. Applying for disability is next to impossible especially if you are disabled. This catch-22 is a huge gap in the system that too many people are being forgotten in.
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Gwen B. with LC🦩🥥
5 months
It's absolutely wild to me that people reject the idea that we should have people handling food wearing a KN95 Like you all know people are going to work sick dripping snot and hacking and wheezing right?
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Gwen B. with LC🦩🥥
5 months
@NoLore Maybe express your joy in a way that isn't a big ol F you to the disabled and immunocompromised who can no longer seek emergency medical care or the 2000+ people a week dying of COVID still
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Gwen B. with LC🦩🥥
11 months
As there's no treatment for Long Covid & it's a known outcome of COVID infection, forcing essential workers into exposure without support is unconscionable. Once disabled, discarding them is pure evil. It's time to rewrite the Ryan White Act for Long Covid. #LongCovid
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Gwen B. with LC🦩🥥
1 year
@CactusAndy I am very upfront about what is required of people in order for them to have access to me and why I require the safety precautions that I do. Good moral people do not insist that they should get to harm people and I don't make space in my life for people willing to risk mine.
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Gwen B. with LC🦩🥥
3 months
@fridahalo @Areannathatsall We could really use a few of those musicians who've been permanently injured by COVID just like every other long hauler to come to terms with their Long Covid and slap on a teal, grey, and black ribbon and speak up. We need the next 1991 Jeremy Irons to show up #LongCovidKills
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Gwen B. with LC🦩🥥
1 year
@Imani_Barbarin Yessss! This should be the standard by which all conferences are run now. Update your swag bag necessities list event planners!
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Gwen B. with LC🦩🥥
10 months
@WCTravelOrg @AmericanAir It should be the law that airlines must replace damaged or destroyed mobility aids within 12 hours regardless of the cost. Bet they would figure out how to treat them respectfully.
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Gwen B. with LC🦩🥥
1 year
@CoronaHeadsUp "who could have seen this coming?" Everyone paying attention: 🤦🤦🏻‍♀️🤦🏿‍♂️🤦‍♀️🤦🏾‍♀️🤦🤦🏻🤦‍♂️🤦🏼‍♀️🤦🏼
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Gwen B. with LC🦩🥥
1 year
There's been some debate about changing the name of #LongCovid I am against it but I think an acceptable alternative could be: Permanently disabling and killing me slowly for the rest of my drastically shortened robbed of all quality life covid What would you call it?
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Gwen B. with LC🦩🥥
1 month
The meager funding demands making it into bills and onto desks past gatekeepers are enough to build furnaces and tracks, not centers for care. We will not fight for these scraps designed to leave so many in my community dead. We must demand better for everyone.
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Gwen B. with LC🦩🥥
2 months
Start asking: How are we going to expand mask block activities to rural communities and dairy farms? Because those people need PPE right now more than anyone. They are at the highest risk. +Keeping them protected keeps everyone down those potential transmission chains protected
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