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Kees van Dongen, 1912, Portrait of his wife Augusta, known as Guus, reading a book by Rabelais.
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I'd love people to write in in response to this post. I'll share my own story to get things started.
Before the pandemic started I had just started to get on the right track after an apartment fire 3 years ago at the time. Everything was thrown off by that and I developed PTSD from the event. My health and mental health conditions were well managed, including my agoraphobia and I was in good health.
Even as I sheltered in place for approximately 3 years and only did essential activities and went to essential places I still contracted covid. Sadly my carer brought it into my home and I've suffered with long covid immediately subsequent to my acute infection ever since (August 28th 2022).
It's turned my life upside down. I had planned on starting to ride my bike and now it sits in my apartment untouched. I struggle to walk, sit and balance especially for prolonged periods, at the ripe age of 31. An issue I didn't have before remotely.
And yet doctors keep mentioning anxiety, that it's not conclusive despite not studying up to date literature and published research on covid and long covid. I have no purpose for my shoes much either because travel is taxing on my body. In fact I've been at my mom's house for almost a month because I'm not well enough to return home.
Even paid my rent and electric digitally. My patio remains unoccupied, partly because I don't want harassment about wearing a mask outdoors but also would rather not see my neighbors. One of which harassed me and my carer after coming back from a very stressful dentist appointment with appalling covid safety and not having slept that day.
My computer collecting dust, partly due to the winter storm a couple months or so ago that knocked out my power and messed up the boot sequence, but also not being able to sit at and use it without swaying, heart palpations, feeling faint, and for long periods.
My kitchen sink, cooking utensils and ware goes unused most of the time because my new illness has largely robbed me of the energy and focus to prepare and cook meals. And my apartment tends to occupy me or my one support staff because of my fear of a repeat incident of someone bringing disease into my house. A disease that if I catch again well may kill me, or, faster.
My shower usually is dry as a bone, baths and showers leave me flaring and wiped for days. My hair products sit frequently untouched as I'm too exhausted to brush, braid, cover and moisturize my hair. As do my free weights and elastic PT bands. Ever since I got sick I lack stamina, experience shortness of breath (I had asthma but it was well controlled), my heart rate spikes and I can't exercise in any way that would hit targets or be beneficial.
And still my doctor recommends physical therapy despite telling her all this. And worst of all won't give me a long covid diagnosis. She kicked me to specialist.
Specialist who are already booked out, and whose schedules and patient lists keep lengthening because of the sharp and continued rise in long covid. Knowing it could take months for me to get a diagnosis this route and even longer to get new disability aids I need if I even get documents and approvals at all.
That I can't possibly afford because I'm dirt poor. To add pain to injury, I was disabled before this. And I understood the seriousness of covid and long covid. And took every precaution. But in a society that's a threat to life and safety, I was only as safe as everyone else was and is.
Which means I wasn't and still am not. Not only do I have whatever implications and damage short and long term from my first bout of illness, I constantly have the threat of reinfections and death everyday.
And finally, I have no use for many of the chairs in my home as my brain, neck and spine struggle to keep me upright. My body is in some ways new to me and after 3 plus decades in it, I have to learn it all over again.
And am confronted with no longer being able to do what I once did (possibly ever again) with great sadness nor test limits without high risk and unpredictable results. And it is a terrible, deeply off putting, arrogant and cruel insult to hear people write off or outright deny long covid exists and call long covid a cold. It fucking isn't.
Anyway that's my story.
#Long Covid#Covid sequela#Sequela#Long Covid Advocacy Ireland#Guus#guustweet#Stories of the pandemic#Millions Missing#Illness#Chronic illness#Complex Health Conditions#Disability#Disabled#The pandemic#Public Health
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Been meaning to draw them as Barbie and Ken 😭💖
#hetalia#THESE ARE MEANT TO BE SEPARATE DRAWINGS BUT NOW IM REALIZING IT LOOKS LIKE ALFRED IS SAYING SHES EVERYTHING AND IM JUST KEN HELP.#whatvee we ball#aph america#hws#hws america#alfred f jones#aph united states#hws United States#aph#also he listens to this song on loop#GUUS HES SO KEN.#I like to imagine they both went to the premiere 🥹💕#they are so Barbie and Ken to me#aph belarus#natalya arlovskaya#hws belarus#also rip I did draw alfred fist and then drew Bela that’s why hee sm drawing is a little more. simple#not that his is any more quote done done but yk there’s a fun little circle#but also maybe it’s just that scene at the end who knows 😳#but either way WOMEN FIRST.
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I'd forgotten how pretty the sky can be, the warm sunlight and trees but I fall to the ground when even the birds sing that heavenly sound.
#splatoon#splatoon callie#callie cuttlefish#callie splatoon#do you guus think the birds sing the calamari inkantation#do you guys
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Gun arm trio commission Thanks for your support! :] [Sneaky Link to my Ko-Fi]
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a god and his favorite mortal
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Since Zane is so good with birds, what if after the tournament of elements he trained a bunch of birds to poop on his statue because ain’t no way is he gonna have a statue of himself in the middle of ninjago. Get rid of it immediately. His embarrassment just keeps getting higher each time he sees tourists take a photo of it.
#lego ninjago#ninjago#ninjago zane#zane ninjago#zane julien#birds#zane and his dumb birds#BRING BACK FALCON#MISS THAT GUY#BIRD GUU#tournament of elements
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Maurice Tillieux - random atmospheric illustrations from various Gil Jourdan albums
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🫸 Draw original content 🤭 Draw literal cartoon ducks as humans
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Xochiquetzal posting cuz uhhhh
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what are you gay
#happy vallentines day guus#i drew these like 2 weeks ago and decided to post them today ^_^#star trek#st#star trek tng#tng#st:tng#star trek fanart#data soong#geordi la forge#geordi laforge#daforge#rozz's arts
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reading scratchman and my harry sullivan brainrot has once again been reawakened
#art#fanart#my art#doodle#doctor who#classic who#harry sullivan#4th doctor#sarah jane smith#fourharry#<- is that their shipname?? idk thats what i refer to them as#guus i. i love harry sullivan#hes such a loser i want to kiss him on the mouth#scratchman is insanely good btw i am LOVING it so far
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i understand the whole “joost’s sudden popularity is so weird and wild to watch as a dutch person” perspective but its also kinda wacky from my perspective in the sense that im not a dutch person, but i became interested in the netherlands pre joost. however i am still looking at the netherlands from an outsider perspective, so its like when i look up his lyrics i understand some references he makes to his dutch upbringing but obviously not all. even then i have had experience with suddenly having an interest in a country and because its the netherlands im almost going. been there. done that. but i see you
#like i understand im an outlier in most cases involving internationals and the netherlands#but like my friend was saying all her coworkers talk about him#like in my case my coworkers know i like the netherlands#but in her case it’s really a case of he is that popular#and its so interesting bc his music is very dutch?? like his song guus meeuwis directly references per spoor#florida 2009 references ddwd#and every time i look up his lyrics in english theres twenty footnotes#just explaining shit#since its happed twice now with käärijä AND joost im inclined to say i want a deep dive#joost klein#joost#käärijä#käärijä effect#the netherlands#dutchblr
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