mallorys_camera | Core Temperatures. Long COVID. (Reply)

Temps were above freezing yesterday, so I went out tromping.

It’s so interesting the way one acclimatizes to low temps after a while!

My extremities were cold, but my core was quite toasty—as though cowering inside this last month had somehow taught my core how to conserve heat-energy more efficiently. How does that happen? Osmosis?

The world was covered with Horrible White Stuff.

Many people find Horrible White Stuff beautiful.

I am not one of those many people.

Not much else to report.

Chatted with the #1 son for a while this morning. He filled my brain with all sorts of scare stories about—ugh—Long COVID. The fellow attorney who is now out on indefinite medical leave because her heart is apparently only pumping at 60% capacity… The Madeleine pal, in her 20s, and before COVID, the picture of cardiovascular health, who actually had a heart attack…

Long COVID is going to have a far more dramatic effect on the utilization of healthcare and social services in the upcoming 40 years than COVID itself ever did.

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I suppose I will go out tromping today, too.

It’s rather awful and grey out there, but temps are supposed to flirt with the 40° F mark.

Then we are scheduled for another SNOWPOCALYPSE.