{"version": "1.0", "type": "rich", "title": "Okay to make some things clear:\nI know damn well all this stuff happening to me is the result of a brain infection doing brain...", "author_name": "kontextmaschine", "author_url": "https://kontextmaschine.com", "provider_name": "kontextmaschine", "provider_url": "https://kontextmaschine.com", "url": "https://kontextmaschine.com/post/711546240766246912/", "html": "<p>Okay to make some things clear:</p><ul><li>I know damn well all this stuff happening to me is the result of a brain infection doing brain damage.</li><li>It is NOT getting worse with time, threatening to suck me into a vortex of destruction.</li><li>In fact, as it cyclically recurs in largely the exact same forms I&rsquo;m used to, it&rsquo;s milder each time, and I can see an intermediate horizon past which I barely notice it anymore.</li><li>Pretty much every Long Covid patient I&rsquo;ve heard of under general, neurological, or other specialist medical supervision says that the doctors at best diagnose and analyze the body&rsquo;s recovery as and to the degree it happens, if not actively chase unhelpful treatments</li><li>If there were something doctors could do, I would not be a priority candidate for it. I am in the &ldquo;will recover fine on his own&rdquo; triage tranch.</li><li>It would&rsquo;ve been nice to be a medicoscientific source, but I&rsquo;ve already progressed so far without observation I wouldn&rsquo;t be too useful as a case study anyway, and this is not exactly a rare disease that will be scrounging for patients to investigate.</li><li>Instead I think I might be more useful as a more humanities-oriented example. All of you, when you hear of &ldquo;someone with long covid&rdquo;, you now have me as a reference example. (Compare Twitter, where the usual catastrophizing=engagement dynamic centers quite different examples)</li></ul>"}