Greetings

Hello, and welcome to, uh, hell I guess. Visiting or joining me is fine. You are probably here because you have long Covid, think you have it, or are just curious about the hell-scape that it is (including those who support family and friends with it).

This has been a page I have been working on for a very long time, and I never really finished it.

Covid can cause a lot of awful shenanigans that linger. Oftentimes, the severely negative impact on quality of life and wellbeing is compared to hell, which, quite frankly, seems adequate, even for an atheist.

What is Long Covid (LC)?

Long Covid, known as LC or post covid condition (PCC) is a wide swath of symptoms, typically lasting longer than a 1 - 3 months (I really don’t care at this point what it is) onset of a COVID infection. The Wikipedia entry covers it sort of well - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Long_COVID.

I have what is more in line with neuro-covid, which impacts various parts of the neurological system. You may read more about my symptoms here, along with treatments I’m currently doing. Additional experiences are scattered about here.

Why A Long Dance with Rona blog? And that logo…

First and foremost, my memory, albeit improved over the last few months, is not great. My ADHD, which was sort of mild and manageable before, became a wild and out of control beast. Both the brain fog and ADHD combined were a very brutal combination that would feed off one another.

I started this in May 2025, and it hasn’t gone “live” for a months. Partially because I’m all over the place; content and post were made, while trying to configure the back end part of Hugo. Why isn’t a setting working as I want it to? Perfection is irrelevant with this, and I need to let that go.

I tend to be a silly person at times, so I have always dubbed Covid-19 as Rona. I’ve noticed a few friends and family have coined the term as well. Love it or hate it, it’s here to stay for a bit (the term Rona, long covid can go away any time now).

Who am I?

Over the past 18 months with this I don’t really know. I was a husband, father, full time worker, intelligent, athletic, nerd, and witty. Middle aged, but still was a kid at heart, and it made being a father all that much more adventerous and fun.

Now? I’m just tired. I can barely keep up with day to day, let alone research potential treatments for my symptoms, which seem to continually get worse and are dismissed by the medical community more often than taken seriously.

I still have good days, but also bad ones. I don’t really know how much longer I’ll continue to live. I was disappearing in a solace of false recovery, only to crash extremely hard.

So, join me, on a seemingly never ending journey of long covid.