Ted Monroe

English teacher; writer; impatient long Covid patient

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[Ted Monroe @TedMonroe91]

'...it’s like waking up in a suit of medieval armour after a night on the mead'. I wrote an article on #LongCovid for @The_Fence_Mag
https://t.co/WadENStghC
@gezmedinger @long_covid @LongCovidSOS @longcovidlabs @DarrenBar88 @PutrinoLab @DrJamesGill @BinitaKane @DrAsadKhan

[Ted Monroe @TedMonroe91]

@ShariBoxerBaker Thank you, Shari!

[Ted Monroe @TedMonroe91]

Out Today - New edn of Virginia Woolf’s ‘On Being Ill’ with contributions from 12 contemporary writers
My essay on #LongCovid is alongside essays on depression, migraine, endometriosis, the fantasy of the cure & more + poetry on psychosis and anxiety
Buy https://t.co/E6gxbBtPYc

[Ted Monroe @TedMonroe91]

@chydorina This is a very, very similar story...

[Ted Monroe @TedMonroe91]

Out Today - New edn of Virginia Woolf’s ‘On Being Ill’ with contributions from 12 contemporary writers
My essay on #LongCovid is alongside essays on depression, migraine, endometriosis, the fantasy of the cure & more + poetry on psychosis and anxiety
Buy https://t.co/E6gxbBtPYc

[Ted Monroe @TedMonroe91]

@LongCovidAdvoc Thank you!!

[Ted Monroe @TedMonroe91]

@KatyBruce108 Thanks, Katy!

[Megan Stevenson @MeganTStevenson]

This is the dumbest article. There’s no conspiracy against mind-body techniques, most long covid patients have tried them. Meditation helped me a bit. It’s just that we want research $ going towards a CURE, not wasted on things we expect, from experience, to have small effect.

[Ted Monroe @TedMonroe91]

@tomfordblues WHAT a cover!

[Ted Monroe @TedMonroe91]

@andrea_wulf Really loved your books on Humboldt and German Romanticism, so can’t wait for this!

[Brian Fog @useless_priest]

It's undeniable that many people who believe they have (or have been diagnosed with) LC see benefits from "mind-body" approaches, and that should be discussed.

However, below I'll transcribe a reply to the article that I think is the main flaw in coverage like this.

[Ted Monroe @TedMonroe91]

@julia_doubleday @atranscendedman And this is exactly what I pointed out in the comments. As well as the fact that listening to the mind-body types when I was desperately casting around for answers in the initial months of illness made me go from mild to bedbound. Thanks, guys!

[Ted Monroe @TedMonroe91]

"The convict and the convalescent have much in common with the poet: dislodged from the normal patterns of time and space, concentrated physically in one room with a need for imaginative escape"
An essay about #chronicillness and reverie
https://t.co/gfyJrAg7Bl
#ME #LongCovid

[Ted Monroe @TedMonroe91]

@julia_doubleday Mice are famously anxious, as seen in the expression, ‘Are you a man or a mouse’. Therefore this study is invalid.

[tern @1goodtern]

https://t.co/dUdXvbrUnE

[Will Self @wself]

“He was indeed looking up at the stars, there’s no doubt about that––but he was also indubitably in the gutter. Wilde’s celebrated bon mot insists that some of those who are in the gutter are nonetheless looking up at the stars. Yet perhaps the formula ought properly to be reversed: some of us who are looking at the stars are in the gutter.”

[Putrino Lab @PutrinoLab]

Wonderful day for a new #LongCOVID paper! Thanks to an incredible collaboration with @VirusesImmunity and brilliant work done by @keylas3, we studied the effects of injecting antibodies taken from people with LC into mice compared with what happened

https://t.co/uotWM9LUEG

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[Ted Monroe @TedMonroe91]

"The convict and the convalescent have much in common with the poet: dislodged from the normal patterns of time and space, concentrated physically in one room with a need for imaginative escape"
An essay about #chronicillness and reverie
https://t.co/gfyJrAg7Bl
#ME #LongCovid

[Ted Monroe @TedMonroe91]

@amwilson_opera @BDSixsmith @KlassicalKat_88 Completely insane! As pointed out in Will Self’s recent post, which was a cathartic read if you haven’t read it!

[Ted Monroe @TedMonroe91]

@BDSixsmith @serenelyjoyful I’ve written an article on Long Covid and Waiting for Godot that I’m looking to find a home for. Might The Critic be interested?!

[Ted Monroe @TedMonroe91]

@PaulGadsden82 Brill! Thank you!