Download or read book The Long Haul written by Ryan Prior and published by MIT Press. This book was released on 2024-03-05 with total page 337 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: How survivors of the Covid-19 pandemic battling long-term disabling conditions are fighting for recognition and research—and helping to transform healthcare for many overlooked diseases. To the world’s public health authorities, Covid-19 would be either a deadly disease for some or a simple respiratory illness for most, its symptoms clearing up in just a matter of weeks. But then tens of millions around the world got sick and stayed sick. With scientists and doctors caught off guard, these Long Covid patients often found solace only with one another, organizing support groups across oceans and continents while ill in bed. In The Long Haul, CNN journalist Ryan Prior weaves his own life, the stories of activist patients, and the latest science into a captivating tale of regular people crying out for care that actually works. What Covid “long haulers” found was that their new illness was not so new. In fact, it resembled other post-viral syndromes: difficult to treat and neglected by science. In riveting and accessible prose, Prior follows an innovative band of patients who took matters into their own hands and researched the disease themselves, thereby flipping the script and illustrating a new paradigm for research. In these unprecedented times, the CDC and the WHO came to them. As Covid continues to circulate, its long-term effects could grow as well, weighing on the healthcare system for decades to come. But, as Prior shows, getting Long Covid treatments right could help revolutionize care for all complex and chronic illnesses.

Download or read book Survivors Of The Coronavirus written by Sara J Price and published by . This book was released on 2020-12-10 with total page 148 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: We are the survivors of the COVID-19The DNA of the true God healed our bodies by the spoken Word of God. My husband and I married for forty-eight years, and were in a life-and-death situation, fighting for our lives with the COVID-19 disease. This is the true story of how we survived and our relationship with God that we have that saved both of our lives. We both explain our experiences of COVID-19 disease.It was hard to explain to our own children and grandchildren that we were sick with a COVID-19, along with double pneumonia and that we could die. It was hard for us to hear the sound of their cries and hearing them all saying, "God, surely not our mom and dad grandma and grandpa! Are you going to die?" We are pastors also, so telling are our church family over the phone that we are very sick with COVID-19 and how they reacted was difficult. "Imagine-are we going to lose both of our pastor?" Apostle Sara J Price and her husband Pastor Donnie Price say God let us live to tell our true story.

Download or read book Survivors Of The Coronavirus written by Sara J Price and published by . This book was released on 2020-12-10 with total page 148 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: We are the survivors of the COVID-19The DNA of the true God healed our bodies by the spoken Word of God. My husband and I married for forty-eight years, and were in a life-and-death situation, fighting for our lives with the COVID-19 disease. This is the true story of how we survived and our relationship with God that we have that saved both of our lives. We both explain our experiences of COVID-19 disease.It was hard to explain to our own children and grandchildren that we were sick with a COVID-19, along with double pneumonia and that we could die. It was hard for us to hear the sound of their cries and hearing them all saying, "God, surely not our mom and dad grandma and grandpa! Are you going to die?" We are pastors also, so telling are our church family over the phone that we are very sick with COVID-19 and how they reacted was difficult. "Imagine-are we going to lose both of our pastor?" Apostle Sara J Price and her husband Pastor Donnie Price say God let us live to tell our true story.

Download or read book Ventilator written by Deion Andrew Campbell and published by . This book was released on 2020-10-25 with total page 102 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book is about my encounter with the recent Global Pandemic known as the Coronavirus. Currently, there have been over 200,000 Covid-19 related deaths in the United States, and this country is projected to reach over 400,000 deaths by January 2021. I wrote this book for all those who believe the pandemic is not real or may currently have Covid-19 and don't know what to do. I am living proof to tell you there is hope! I survived 12 days on the ventilator and over 40 days in the hospital. Miracles do happen to those who believe. To all those against wearing a mask because you think the Government is trying to control you, remember the purpose of wearing a mask. It is for your own safety, there is no cure for the virus right now. You may argue wearing a mask won't keep you safe. Tests have proven it is harder for airborne viruses to spread through a mask. Even if it only decreases your chances of catching the virus or passing it to someone else by 20% than it's worth it. We all inhabit the same planet. We must do our very best to keep it safe.

Download or read book Long Haul COVID A Survivor s Guide written by Joseph J. Trunzo and published by John Hunt Publishing. This book was released on 2021-06-25 with total page 120 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 'A much welcomed and needed book that not only addresses the severe emotional impact of COVID-19 but more importantly, offers a unique method for living a fruitful life once again.' Andrew J. D'Amico, PhD, Psychologist Overwhelmed, frustrated, and suffering from long haul COVID symptoms and the fallout of the pandemic? This practical guide will help you transform your struggles to lead a fulfilling, vital life right now. Acceptance and commitment therapy (ACT), the scientifically based therapeutic approach presented by Joseph J. Trunzo and Julie Luongo, offers a way out - not when you’re feeling better, but right now.

Download or read book Surviving Our Catastrophes written by Robert Jay Lifton and published by The New Press. This book was released on 2023-09-05 with total page 79 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: From the National Book Award winner, a powerful and timely rumination on how we can draw on historical examples of “survivor power” to understand the upheaval and death caused by the COVID-19 pandemic—and collectively heal "Lifton shows us why we must confront reality in order to save democracy." —Peter Balakian, Pulitzer Prize–winning author of Ozone Journal In this moving and ultimately hopeful meditation on the psychological aftermath of catastrophe, award-winning psychiatrist Robert Jay Lifton calls forth his life’s work to show us how to cope with the lasting effects and legacy of the COVID-19 pandemic. The result is a thought-provoking examination of life in the face of COVID-19 from one of the most profound thinkers of our time. When the people of Hiroshima experienced the unspeakable horror of the atomic bombing, they responded by creating an activist “city of peace.” Survivors of the Nazi death camps took the lead in combating mass killing of any kind and converted their experience into art and literature that demonstrated the resilience of the human spirit. Drawing on the remarkably life-affirming responses of survivors of such atrocities, Lifton, “one of the world’s foremost thinkers on why we humans do such awful things to each other” (Bill Moyers), shows readers how we can carry on and live meaningful lives even in the face of the tragic and the absurd. Surviving Our Catastrophes offers compelling examples of “survivor power” and makes clear that we will not move forward by denying the true extent of the pandemic’s destruction. Instead, we must truly reckon with COVID-19’s effects on ourselves and society—and find individual and collective forms of renewal.

Download or read book Covid Unmasked written by Tony Aspler and published by Mosaic Press. This book was released on 2021-04 with total page 64 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A humorous booklet about COVID-19...Why? Because humor is our best ally in the fight against adversity. A smile is a shaft of light and we need smiles to lighten the dark days... We are not giving in to the Beast. We are surviving. I hope that the following words will bring a smile to your face and make you forget for a moment the world's anxiety and loss.

Download or read book The Plague Year written by Lawrence Wright and published by Vintage. This book was released on 2021-06-08 with total page 417 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: From the Pulitzer Prize–winning author of The Looming Tower, and the pandemic novel The End of October: an unprecedented, momentous account of Covid-19—its origins, its wide-ranging repercussions, and the ongoing global fight to contain it "A book of panoramic breadth ... managing to surprise us about even those episodes we … thought we knew well … [With] lively exchanges about spike proteins and nonpharmaceutical interventions and disease waves, Wright’s storytelling dexterity makes all this come alive.” —The New York Times Book Review From the fateful first moments of the outbreak in China to the storming of the U.S. Capitol to the extraordinary vaccine rollout, Lawrence Wright’s The Plague Year tells the story of Covid-19 in authoritative, galvanizing detail and with the full drama of events on both a global and intimate scale, illuminating the medical, economic, political, and social ramifications of the pandemic. Wright takes us inside the CDC, where a first round of faulty test kits lost America precious time . . . inside the halls of the White House, where Deputy National Security Adviser Matthew Pottinger’s early alarm about the virus was met with confounding and drastically costly skepticism . . . into a Covid ward in a Charlottesville hospital, with an idealistic young woman doctor from the town of Little Africa, South Carolina . . . into the precincts of prediction specialists at Goldman Sachs . . . into Broadway’s darkened theaters and Austin’s struggling music venues . . . inside the human body, diving deep into the science of how the virus and vaccines function—with an eye-opening detour into the history of vaccination and of the modern anti-vaccination movement. And in this full accounting, Wright makes clear that the medical professionals around the country who’ve risked their lives to fight the virus reveal and embody an America in all its vulnerability, courage, and potential. In turns steely-eyed, sympathetic, infuriated, unexpectedly comical, and always precise, Lawrence Wright is a formidable guide, slicing through the dense fog of misinformation to give us a 360-degree portrait of the catastrophe we thought we knew.

Download or read book The Complete Guide To Long Covid 19 written by Greta Steiner and published by . This book was released on 2020-10-15 with total page 136 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Do you worry about testing positive for Covid-19 and the long-term health complications? Many survivors are now living with the harmful side-effects of the disease and up until now, there hasn't really been any effort made to record and document the long-term symptoms that may come out of it. The silver lining is there's knowledge to be gained from survivors so you can maximize your return to health. Survivors of Covid-19 have pointed to breathlessness, mind fogging, muscle-pain, loss of taste, loss of smell, and depression as the early symptoms, the long-term effects of the virus are still unknown. That's why The Complete Guide To Long Covid-19 is the go-to, self-help guide for any virus survivor looking to maximize recovery and return to health faster. In this book, Greta Steiner has combined her expert knowledge of nutrition and psychology to address specific symptoms related to the long term effects of Covid-19. And now her book is helping people recover the right way and maximize their return to health. The book is an easy-to-read guide that helps people identify the right path to recovery by giving them the support, nutritional, and mindfulness techniques they need. The book provides plenty of advice, insights, tips, and support to help them return to work, ease back into exercise, and create the right support system needed. Inside The Complete Guide To Long Covid-19, you'll discover: Where to get help when you need it most How to manage symptoms more effectively How to avoid over-exercising during recovery How to encourage others to support your recovery How to get started on your own pathway to recovery How to boost your nutrition to maximize return to health How to manage stress and support on your return to health Mindfulness techniques to help reduce stress and boost health Discover why long-term Covid-19 is important everywhere on earth What long-term Covid-19 symptoms other people like you are experiencing How to conduct your own health evaluation for long-term Covid-19 symptoms What long-term Covid-19 is and why it's increasingly recognized around the world The long term health risks associated with Long Covid-19 and how to mitigate their effects Here's a sneak peek at the amazing content you'll learn: Motivation techniques to help recovery How to get the right nutrition for your health How to seek support from friends and family How to avoid stress and support your path to recovery How to communicate an awareness of symptoms to othersHow to avoid negative emotional spirals to support a return to healthHow much exercise you should do to support health but not hinder it Find out where to get the right help and treatment for your symptoms Learn how The RISE Protocol(R) principles support your return to health The benefits of alternative therapy and how it can help alleviate symptomsHow to return to work but not overdo it in order to support your health recoveryHow to reach out to others when things are going wrong and you need help or supportHow to manage depression and improve symptoms of mental fogging in order to return to full health faster. And the best part? As aFREE bonus, you'll get nutrition and daily diet charts to help you ease your symptoms and a extra ailment and nutrition check sheet. By the time you finish this guide, you will not only know how to support yourself the right way but you'll be able to support loved ones at home, friends, and colleagues at work who may still be suffering at this difficult time. To find out how you can manage your own path to recovery, simply scroll up and click on the "Add To Cart" button now!

Download or read book Covid 19 written by Rich Sena and published by Palmetto Publishing. This book was released on 2023-06-06 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In Rich Sena's close-to-the-heart memoir, readers experience the difficult times, struggles, and impact having COVID alongside the author. This book deals with the pains and joys of surviving a deadly virus. "It couldn't happen to me." Rich Sena's thoughts were aligned with most middle-aged healthy Americans. In July 2021, the COVID-19 pandemic still loomed down everyone's necks, but after a year of the pandemic ravaging the country, no more shutdowns, and lifted mask mandates, there seemed to be less and less of a chance to contract a truly strong strain. After all, Rich had just run a 5K two months before and was preparing to open a restaurant he was going to manage-he didn't have time for COVID-19. Unfortunately, Rich discovered the deadly virus doesn't discriminate, back down, or consider a busy person's schedule and he ended up in the hospital. Over 18 months and five surgeries, Rich fought tooth and nail to beat COVID-19-and won. In his debut book and tell-all memoir COVID-19: My Battle With COVID and How I Survived, Rich walks readers through his struggle with COVID Delta, taking a step-by-step, epistolary approach and including real photos and text messages from his experience. COVID-19 is a memoir health professionals, other COVID-19 survivors, and nonfiction readers will enjoy. Rich's enthralling narrative gives life to the struggles he faced and brings readers into close confidence.

Download or read book Faith in the Face of COVID 19 written by Christina Ray Stanton and published by . This book was released on 2020-10-12 with total page 200 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: She Endured 9/11 . . . Would She Survive COVID-19? It was March 2020, and rumors of a mysterious virus filled the air. But busy New York City tour guide Christina Ray Stanton paid little attention. After all, she and her husband had survived 9/11; it would take more than a virus to slow them--or their city--down. But within days, Stanton saw her beloved Manhattan become a ghost town as fear of the novel coronavirus swept the nation. Seeking safety, she and her husband left the city to stay with family in Florida. They didn't realize that rather than escaping the storm, they were heading into the eye of the hurricane: Stanton was already infected with COVID-19 and would soon be fighting for her life from a hospital bed hundreds of miles from home. In this unforgettable first-person account, Stanton shares the physical, mental and emotional agony she endured as the virus ravaged her body. Given a 50/50 chance of survival, she didn't lose hope. She relied on her community and her faith to sustain her through the painful journey. Along the way, she learned new lessons in gratitude, emerging stronger, more resilient, and with a renewed sense of purpose. This stirring story of one woman's battle with COVID-19 will inspire anyone whose life has been touched by the coronavirus pandemic or who has endured hardship. Discover the power of faith, family and friends to help us survive our darkest days.

Download or read book I Am Sorry For Your Loss written by Denne Lawton and published by . This book was released on 2021 with total page 94 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "I am Sorry For Your Loss" takes a poignant look at the rapid rate in which COVID-19 impacted the life of a Wayne County Resident living in Michigan. In March of 2020, Michigan became the epicenter of one of the worst pandemics in American history. Thousands of Michiganders lost their lives. One day life was normal and the next day it wasn't. Denne Lawton is a COVID-19 survivor. She provides a personal reflection of her experiences with COVID-19, describing the highs, the lows, the regret and the overwhelming loss experienced by her family.

Download or read book Exercise Oncology written by Kathryn H. Schmitz and published by Springer Nature. This book was released on 2020-05-04 with total page 438 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This groundbreaking book presents a unique and practical approach to the evolving field of exercise oncology - the study of physical activity in the context of cancer prevention and control. Presenting the current state of the art, the book is sensibly divided into four thematic sections. Following an opening chapter presenting an overview and timeline of exercise oncology, the chapters comprising part I discuss primary cancer prevention, physical activity and survivorship, and the mechanisms by which these operate. Diagnosis and treatment considerations are discussed in part II, including prehabilitation, exercise during surgical recovery, infusion and radiation therapies, and treatment efficacy. Post-treatment and end-of-life care are covered in part III, including cardio-oncology, energetics and palliative care. Part IV presents behavioral, logistical and policy-making considerations, highlighting a multidisciplinary approach to exercise oncology as well as practical matters such as reimbursement and economics. Written and edited by experts in the field, Exercise Oncology will be a go-to practical resource for sports medicine clinicians, family and primary care physicians, oncologists, physical therapy and rehabilitation specialists, and all medical professionals who treat cancer patients.

Download or read book Confessions of a Covid 19 Survivor written by Mildred L. Norwood Fisher and published by Page Publishing Inc. This book was released on 2022-06-17 with total page 342 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Confessions of a COVID-19 Survivor is written by Mildred L. Norwood-Fisher. It is the heartfelt story of the pain, suffering, fear, and anxiety that overwhelmed her when she found herself suddenly cast into the excruciating valley of COVID-19. While passing through the valley, she was overwhelmed but eventually rejoiced because of an unexpected victory. In the valley, there were many ups and downs. Many dark days and even darker nights. So many days all she had was her past because her present looked bleak, and it appeared that there would be no future beyond the valley, which within itself was a terrifying thought. Mildred felt trapped in the dark valley of despair. Many times, she felt as if there were no escaping the valley because the walls of the endless pathway were crushing in on her. The dryness in the valley had taken her breath away. She couldn’t breathe. Every attempt to do so was an act of manual labor. You will also walk with Mrs. Smith as she found herself trapped in the valley in total agony when her firstborn, her only son, Matthew, was tossed into the fiery furnace of COVID-19, left there to die, and that he did. Mrs. Smith found herself locked inside herself. You see, a parent is not supposed to bury her child, yet that was exactly what she was left to do, and there was no escaping that horrible reality. That day, time stopped, and she could not move beyond that even if she tried. You will witness a family that was moved by faith through fate to God’s faithfulness. This book unleashes the power of God, the manifestation of the Holy Spirit as the healing hands of God are revealed. I pray that this book will inspire, encourage, and bless you as I have truly attempted to give testimony to the faithfulness of our God, “How great is thou faithfulness?”

Download or read book Ten To Life written by Mike Joyner and published by Independently Published. This book was released on 2022-06-08 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A Covid -19 journey into the abyss, a recollecting of delirium, hallucinations from the far reaches of our minds created from what we consciously and subconsciously record of our five senses. Forty days were spent in four hospitals, from Syracuse, New York to Sayre, Pennsylvania, the author spent eighteen days intubated, sedated in an induced coma. At 61-years old, no significant health issues (although overweight, ) a passionate outdoorsman, prior years as a runner / triathlete, suddenly found himself in the fight for his life. He was given a ten percent chance of surviving it. He nearly succumbed to it. In his latest book, the author strives to convey what is nearly impossible to adequately describe as to how much Covid delirium magnifies our most primitive basal emotions. It is nearly paralyzing when fear, anger, regret, sense of loss enters the hallucination. It is the recollecting of this journey during my induced coma that is most difficult, and emotionally painful. -Mike Joyner To those I hope to reach, to the families that are mired in anguish as their loved ones suffer; I hope that my testimony and recollection of my experience provides some measure of hope, some comfort as we extend ourselves in solidarity. It is a bare and honest account of my Covid delirium. My perceived lifetimes jumped back and forth, yet I felt no disconnect. All of my senses were in play, and at no time while sedated did I question all that I experienced to be anything but real. Everything was in place no matter how fantastic or bizarre it may have appeared. -Mike Joyner "I will long remember the kindness, the prayers, and the critical medical/spiritual support during my darkest hours. It is my firm belief I was brought back from the edge, given a second chance to do, to complete whatever I am meant to do in this life. I can promise without reservation I'll make good on it." -Mike Joyner

Download or read book Tele oncology written by Giovanna Gatti and published by Springer. This book was released on 2015-06-09 with total page 91 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book explains how telemedicine can offer solutions capable of improving the care and survival rates of cancer patients and can also help patients to live a normal life in spite of their condition. Different fields of application – community, hospital and home based – are examined, and detailed attention is paid to the use of tele-oncology in rural/extreme rural settings and in developing countries. The impact of new technologies and the opportunities afforded by the social web are both discussed. The concluding chapters consider eLearning in relation to cancer care and assess the scope for education to improve prevention. No medical condition can shatter people’s lives as cancer does today and the need to develop strategies to reduce the disease burden and improve quality of life is paramount. Readers will find this new volume in Springer’s TELe Health series to be a rich source of information on the important contribution that can be made by telemedicine in achieving these goals.

Download or read book The COVID 19 Catastrophe written by Richard Horton and published by John Wiley & Sons. This book was released on 2020-07-13 with total page 143 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The global response to the COVID-19 pandemic is the greatest science policy failure in a generation. We knew this was coming. Warnings about the threat of a new pandemic have been made repeatedly since the 1980s and it was clear in January that a dangerous new virus was causing a devastating human tragedy in China. And yet the world ignored the warnings. Why? In this short and hard-hitting book, Richard Horton, editor of the medical journal The Lancet, scrutinizes the actions that governments around the world took – and failed to take – as the virus spread from its origins in Wuhan to the global pandemic that it is today. He shows that many Western governments and their scientific advisors made assumptions about the virus and its lethality that turned out to be mistaken. Valuable time was lost while the virus spread unchecked, leaving health systems unprepared for the avalanche of infections that followed. Drawing on his own scientific and medical expertise, Horton outlines the measures that need to be put in place, at both national and international levels, to prevent this kind of catastrophe from happening again. Were supposed to be living in an era where human beings have become the dominant influence on the environment, but COVID-19 has revealed the fragility of our societies and the speed with which our systems can come crashing down. We need to learn the lessons of this pandemic and we need to learn them fast because the next pandemic may arrive sooner than we think.