I got a COVID infection a while ago that permanently disabled me pretty bad. Bedridden, unable to move much, etc.
The thing that really helped me was relaxing and listening to music. Thatās what I spent my days doing as I couldnāt do much else. I became a real music nerd and just loved the bliss of hearing music.
A little later (two years). I got another COVID infection ā I was taking very strong precautions, and couldnāt see anyone. It turns out I got it from my doctor. Anyways, this infection caused some brain damage which has caused me to mostly loose the ability to hear. And now Iām still mostly motionless alone in bed, but I havenāt even got the comfort of sound or music. Just a mostly silent (tinnitus filled) world.
Iām so scared of getting covid again. But mostly I miss the world and my old life. Being stuck alone in bed with only the internet for company sucks. People tend to be arseholes online. I canāt help but feel I got ānatural selectionedā. Me and my wife were planning on having kids soon. Now I barely see her and Iām going to slowly die in a nursing home. There are specific genetic vulnerabilities to illnesses, and natural selection works with them (see what Europeans coming to America did). And I got fucked here. COVID was my end.
Did you get vaccinated? Please say you did, and that you werenāt one of the dumb ones falling for all this bullshit. The vaccines, even if they donāt keep you from falling ill - greatly reduce the effects of Long-Covid, and the problems they cause with the body.
Dude, read the room.
This is 100% inappropriate to ask. While I am also very pro-vaccine and frustrated at the anti-vaccine movement, youāre talking to some who is grieving the loss of a major part of their life. Saying all this is on par with āDid your mom X with youā or āThis wouldnāt have happened if you didnāt Y so muchā to explain disabilities. No one owes you their medical history and shame on you for asking. Youāre fishing to put personal blame on to someone so you can get a sense of smug schadenfreude from another suffering. Letās say the answer is yes, are you truly here to do a victory lap?
Yep. And if the answer is no, then Iāll offer my condolences and probably do some research to see what opportunities for treatment they have available - so that I can help in the way I know best.
what a smug piece of shit. not just because you want to gloat at anotherās suffering, but because you are fucking arrogant enough to this that you can help find a solution to a problem OP has had for years.
Do you really think that OP is that much of an idiot that it took them two years to find some random asshole on lemmy to Google shit for them?
You need to do some introspection, holy shit
I have helped find solutions for a handful of peopleās medical issues over the years.
Iāve found doctors often donāt care to do this research themselves. You too can help; as someone who cares about this stuff often times a patientās best hope is usually a family-member who is diligent in asking questions and educating themselves further.
So piss off, internet armchair expert. Doctors arenāt infallable as you may think; and Iāve known plenty to simply donāt give 2 shits and do not look further into stuff such as this.
Well that is just an outright cruelty. Fucking stop.
Do that anyways.
Holy shit donāt. This post isnāt your personal call to action. OPās doctors know far more about their treatment than some rando online. OP is venting, not asking for your personal medical advice.
Please, try to understand what you are doing here is harmful, not help and learn how the disabled community is begging people to stop saying these things.
Youāre speaking to a troll, by the way. This isnāt new behaviour.
OP has lost their hearing, is bed-ridden, and has lost their future plans. And here you are kicking them while theyāre down. There is absolutely nothing appropriate with anything you just said in your comment.
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Honestly, you sound as bad as those anti-vaxxers, sitting all high and mighty on your throne of shit. You think youāre better than OP because how dare anybody get sick if they were smart enough to get vaccinated like you. Your world is so black and white you cannot possibly fathom any grey in between. Itās ideologies like yours that hurt the rest of us the most.
If they fell for it, then theyāve effectively destroyed their own life. Iām not going to be sympathetic towards antivaxxers. The whole world worked as fast as possible to get people protected. If this person then rejected all of that work, all of that effort, and ended up like this? ā Then they did it to themselves.
You donāt have to be sympathetic. You also donāt have to be an asshole and rub it in. You know nothing about this person, and yet youāre so quick to pass judgement. I pity you more than I pity OP.
You should probably pity OP more. They lost the genetic lottery on this one. I havenāt had COVID. Iāve been actually harassed and bullied because of the protections I took.
So fuck antivaxxers.
This isnāt about you.