My Long Covid Healing & 2026 New Years Resolution

I am sitting this AM St. Pete Beach, FL thinking about my 2026 New Life Resolution (I don’t believe in making temporary changes to my life or me only permanent).

They say that if you lose your health you will never take it for granted again and I won’t. In 2021 I got the vid like everyone but I ended up getting long covid or ME/CFS. We learned about myalgic encephalitis (brain swelling)/ chronic fatigue syndrome in school. If you had told that the human body was capable of that level of fatigue I would say not possible. The last 4.5 years I was almost completely debilitated. I laid in bed after work, couldn’t play with my kids, thinking about getting up to go to the bathroom was an overwhelming thought. It was the most horrific time of my life and I have had mental illness most of my life (OCD). There is a misconception by the way that only vaxxed people get it. This isn’t true as I got it and never got the shot.

After spending about 20k on things that kinda helped or not at all I finally read that study out of Europe about of an MD who gave a small group of patients low dose nicotine patches and within a week they were better. I said that sounds crazy but I am desperate. My memory was gone my assistant legitimately thought I had Alzheimer’s as I couldn’t remember if I ate breakfast that morning. I felt great for 2 weeks then I crashed for about 4 weeks then I started to really feel better and am almost totally better in 4 months still patching 7 days on 7 days off. I am forever grateful to that MD who published that case study. There is a darkness in disability I found that out the hard way. * Not Medical Advice * just my personal story. I am forever grateful for my health!

I read a tweet by an infectious disease MD who takes care of these people with ME/CFS and I almost started crying because no one gets how bad it is. He said it’s worse than any condition he has ever seen “nothing compares” he said worse than end stage cancer and organ rejection sepsis. (See below)

I started riding my bike again which I haven’t been able to do in years! I have personal and professional goals every year here are mine.

Be more grateful for the little things, take nothing for granted!
Do active exercise majority of the week getting my HR up.
Be an active dad again with my kids
My cash based clinic will gross 1.8 million take home 35%

Would love to hear yours resolutions comment below!

Happy New Year!

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