Well-known, famous people with Covid-19 and Long Covid

Paralympic champion Lauren Steadman says she "doesn't feel ready" to compete after suffering from long Covid, despite being named in the British triathlon squad for Paris 2024.

"Covid attacked my central nervous system, and I’ve had long Covid since," she told BBC Sport. "I haven't had the preparation I would like to have done, the medical staff have looked after my training.

"The normal benchmarks for me to work out how I have been doing, but I haven't been on a blue carpet this week, I haven't raced any of the girls so I don't know where they are at or where I'm at. So there are a lot of unknowns.

"But I only have one body, I respect it, and we have another six weeks. I just have to have confidence and use my experience that my body will get me there. You cannot push things when it comes to breathing."

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Defending Olympic MTB champion and time trial silver medalist suffering health issues.

Jolanda Neff cyclist:

"I've had the same problem for four years. I don't know what it is, but I can't get much air when I breathe. I've had corona[virus] three times and I don't know if my lungs have been damaged in any way as a result. I've also had severe hay fever since 2016. I had that more or less under control."

Neff has been diagnosed with exertion-related constriction of the vocal cords and while she has undergone therapy to treat the condition, she is not ready to compete at the Olympics.

"I would prefer it if someone else went. I don't have to go to the Olympics to come last. I only want to take part if I can perform," Neff said in May.

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https://mastodon.social/@_slotek_/112847835155852556

 

We have a little discussion about Pogačar here

 

Ah thank you, that's not a thread I normally look at!

 

Nathan Ikon Crumpton starts a YouTube series on not being an Olympic athlete, due to LC.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bGKyA7tIvG0

 

Meanwhile, today Noah Lyles runs the 200m while Covid+ and collapses, having to be taken off the track in a wheelchair.

MSN: Noah Lyles has COVID and was wheeled off by medics in scary scenes after failing to win 200m gold at Paris Olympics

 

Dave Navarro

https://www.rollingstone.com/music/music-features/dave-navarro-janes-addiction-reunion-1235075416/

https://twitter.com/user/status/1823068190450315718

 

A Virtuoso Cellist’s Painstaking Path From Long Covid Back to the Stage

Of course Pam Belluck doesn’t mention ME/CFS.

https://www.nytimes.com/2024/08/17/...e_code=1.D04.upJJ.iGInMUpg5DhO&smid=url-share

 

Hard to read about this guy repeatedly pushing himself into crashes, and reinfections giving him new problems.

"“Every time I’ve had Covid, my long Covid has changed,” he said. Since his most recent infection, in January, he pauses more when speaking, he said, and is more halting when writing. “Some things I’m getting better at managing,” he said. “Other things are harder now than they were a year ago.”"

But people who only read the headline will think he's recovering or recovered.

 

The curious incident of the author who couldn’t read or write: Mark Haddon on long Covid and overcoming five years of brain fog

"A heart bypass in 2019 followed by a Covid infection left the novelist unable to read a book, let alone write one. Five years on, he recalls the steps that have helped him back on the right path"

https://www.theguardian.com/books/a...-covid-and-overcoming-five-years-of-brain-fog

 

'General Hospital' Icon Emma Samms Talks Latest Return to the Show Amid Her Battle with LC

Samms has had a rough few years, as she has been hit pretty hard with long COVID, and was unable to leave her hometown of London for outside work.

“I’ve been like this now for four and a half years nearly, and it’s baffling to not just the people who have it, but it’s baffling to the doctors,” she says. “They are some very smart people who are investigating and studying it and doing research, but all they keep finding is more and more damage that COVID has done to people’s bodies.

“I got some really good scans done and they found that at some point I had had myocarditis, which has scarred my heart,” Samms continues. “The consequences of COVID — I think we still have only just scratched the surface, and it’s terrifying to me that people think we are no longer in a pandemic. Because they so desperately want it to not affect them, they sort of pretend that it is has gone, and it so hasn’t.”

When I’m back in the U.K., and anytime I’m not on the set, I have to lie down, I have to put my feet up. I have something called postural orthostatic tachycardia syndrome, so if I stand too long, I keel over. So the only cure, or the only thing that makes you feel a bit better, is to lie down flat.”

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Slowly it is being acknowledged that Covid is a cardiovascular disease: “Mazraoui had to take time away from football to deal with inflammation of heart tissue in January 2023 after suffering from Covid-19.”

Man Utd's Mazraoui has a minor procedure after palptiations
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Evidently a well known YouTuber (unknown to me but sounds like he started early on as a teenager and now with 4.3m subscribers) Jesse Ridgway (aka McJuggerNuggets). A familiar story —

https://twitter.com/user/status/1844839478701195774


HEALTH UPDATE: It has officially been one year since I contracted Covid-19 while on set for my movie that I’ve been working on. I was once a very healthy 31-year old man, but now every day is a struggle for me. A THREAD...

I genuinely thought I would be better by now… I always had a healthy diet, slept great and worked out…yet Covid made me sick for two weeks. I had a 104 degree fever for 4 days. I blacked out and hit my head on the tile floor. It was hell, but I slowly improved. Then two months later it clapped back with a vengeance and it threw me into the ER for days.

Irregular heartbeat, gastroparesis, near-fainting and I could barely move or speak. The hospital was baffled. Without knowing how to help me, they sent me home with a heart rate monitor and a “best of luck”. When I returned home I couldn’t move much or eat without feeling faint…Couldn’t digest fat. Dropped 20% of my body weight in a month. It felt like my body was shutting down.

Over the months, I gradually improved. We’re talking about a snail’s pace. I received numerous scans, x-rays, blood tests, surgery, colonoscopy…and so much gas-lighting and bullshit from medical staff and even family/friends. Nobody fully understood how badly I was suffering…failing to acknowledge the downstream effects from Covid. Nobody could figure it out. Many were thinking that I wasn’t that bad, PARANOID or just ANXIOUS. It was as if I was somehow the crazy one for believing in science.

 

Musician Shaun Ross Video

This isn’t a sympathy reach or anything like that, just me simply sharing my journey with long COVID and how life is today. I receive tons of comments from people I know and others I don’t about my appearance and weight gain, so I wanted to take the time to talk about my experience with POTS syndrome as a result of long COVID.
https://www.instagram.com/shaunross/reel/DBGtMywPZR8/

 

German Ski World Champion struggles with mysterious illness

Schmid is therefore "in no way resilient for real high-performance sport and corresponding training," said the DSV head coach during the outfit fitting for the new World Cup season during the week. The 2023 parallel world champion and best German giant slalom athlete described that he is regularly extremely exhausted after races and strength training and needs to rest.

Schmid is still far from 100 percent

A few years ago, Schmid suffered from the Epstein-Barr virus - but this time the 30-year-old from Allgäu does not have a definite diagnosis. "Every day is a surprise," said the giant slalom specialist, and commented on his performance level: "When I take breaks, I would say that I have 70 to 80 percent of my energy level."
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Matt McGorry actor, well known from Orange is the New Black, with 1.5 million Instagram followers.

First of two videos about his experiences ~10 minutes, diagnosed with ME/CFS post Covid. Well informed celebrity, in line with Jennie Jacques.

https://www.instagram.com/reel/DBra_TSRhpz/

 

I have a couple of friends who were recently vaccinated but no longer wear masks when they were dedicated mask wearers since the start of Covid. Now they say things like, "I was vaccinated so I don't need to wear one and it's uncomfortable".

I sent them the two recent Instagram videos, the one from the music artist and the recent one posted- crickets. I told them the the actor/producer in the recent video was dx with what I have-ME/CFS. Zero comment. How disappointing.