“We’ve lost so much of what our lives were and could have been, and that is soul destroying,” she said.<\/p>\n
“That one little moment in time has completely changed our opportunities.”<\/p>\n
Since being diagnosed, Gabby has also been told she has several other chronic conditions, including fibromyalgia, which causes pain and fatigue, ME, also known as chronic fatigue syndrome, and postural tachycardia syndrome (PoTS), a condition that affects heart rate and blood pressure.<\/p>\n
Gabby, who can now only work part time in her job as a call handler for North Yorkshire Police, said there was “a lot of stigma” about long Covid and finds it frustrating when people assume you can “just push through”.<\/p>\n
“Having a shower or getting up and getting changed can be the big parts of your day,” she said.<\/p>\n
“That might be one of the main things you can do in a day and nothing else.”<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"“We’ve lost so much of what our lives were and could have been, and that is soul destroying,”…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":493912,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[10],"tags":[59,102,56,54,55],"class_list":{"0":"post-493911","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-health","8":"tag-gb","9":"tag-health","10":"tag-uk","11":"tag-united-kingdom","12":"tag-unitedkingdom"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/493911","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=493911"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/493911\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/493912"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=493911"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=493911"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=493911"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}