“I live in a wheelchair, I’m sick and they don’t believe me”

A hard, difficult story. «I practically live in bed. At 36 years old»: it is the (terrible) testimony of Francesca Lo Castro, suffering from Long Covid and founder of the long-term care network. «It was a Thursday in March 2020. I was in my office in London and I had chilblains on my hands: it was the first sign»the woman told La Repubblica, recalling the day she fell ill with Sars-CoV-2 and underlining the fact that many “They don’t believe me.”

Francesca Lo Castro and Long Covid, the story

The second step of his ordeal, however, dates back to April 27 of the same year: «I’m getting a big fever. Violent cough. I end up in the emergency room. But they don’t admit me. “She is young, she doesn’t risk her life”». From home, however, the disease never improved. On the contrary. «The pneumonia doesn’t go away. I go back to the emergency room twice more, each time they send me home», continued Lo Castro. Confirmation in September 2020: «They tell me that my illness has become chronic. Pneumonia was replaced by pleurisy. After a year, following an alleged heart attack, I was diagnosed with chronic myocarditis and pericarditis. I find myself in a wheelchair».

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Speaking about the symptoms of this disease that never left her, she mentioned the main ones: «A frightening asthenia. I don’t have the strength to do anything. Headaches. Nausea. In the summer I am differently worse. My body breathes, I can go out with a cane, people tell me “you’ve improved”. But that’s not true, because in the heat I feel worse mentally. It’s as if I fall into a mental fog, a sort of Alzheimer’s».

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