First I’ll add, I am no doctor. I do have a sense of humor and do understand how quickly Americans will result to easy acronyms and alliterations-so maybe a doctor SHOULD have bought the site to do what I am trying to. I am well-acquainted with having a pre-existing condition in the United States, though, and as a result have had to learn how to protect myself from an often could-give-two shits-about-anyone-else-public with regard to my own health and my own health advocacy. I wrote about my general inclinations about COVID in January of 2020-I don’t claim to be psychic or have any magical abilities, it was just a general tension I was feeling even beyond the shitty political discourse. I am just a normal 45 year old married woman living in Virginia, newly moved mid-pandemic just making my own observations about the world. I’m child-free & I have lived all over the country, MA, NY, NJ, CO, VA as an adult and have traveled to Europe, Central America and Canada. You will see most and many of the links I have indicated have multiple source articles listed in their citations so understand these are not conspiratorial YOUTUBE links sending your crazy uncle or grandma into a tailspin believing the lizard people are coming. OMG. That-that site link is how I discovered what all the loony toons were reading and what their cult looked like to the sane people left in the ashes of these people’s lives.
Anyways-I am trying to centralize the information into one area-and will do my part to help educate everyone and ensure we might achieve some protection for the vulnerable and soon to be vulnerable in our population. Remember, those of you sitting snotty about not being a weak obese person are now possibly even weaker than an obese one who was never infected, because they might be able to change their bodies, but once it’s in you, you can’t press the undo button. They can make changes, but your issue is not one that makes that less possible. I’ll allow for magical people who might one day figure out something supremely evil to get that undo done, but for now, nope. You are now an unhealthier person than someone who is obese now and has never been infected. The point is we are ALL going to have to take care of each other and the sides might be hard to see when everyone is sick.
WHY A COVID SITE? Aren’t we all sick to death of being in a pandemic. YES, yes we are. Something about what COVID was doing really hit home with me, because my gene defect has left me with many of the same issues with my own health–something about it felt very familiar in even how some of the cases were presenting and some of the long haul symptoms as well as the kidney damage, blood clots, heart damage and strokes. I have had all of those before and maybe that was what kind of lured me into caring so much about everyone else being affected by something that has been pretty devastating. Losing your good health, as many might soon discover, is not something that you can easily recapture, and you’d have to expect, at least for some percentage that is greater than the minority, cannot ever be recaptured again, except possibly in small swaths of time and experience. Many are going to realize the value of their health exceeds almost any dollar amount-and anything I can do to help educate against giving it up so freely, I am keen to do.
I have suffered aortic dissection, strokes and kidney failure as well as a blood clot at least once in my leg. My gene defect does not have a vaccine available to prevent it, but due to the marvels of science, I am allowed to live due to the advice and genius of doctors and medical professionals, who have saved me across at least 10 hospitalizations and 7 major surgeries over the course of 25+ years. I’ve had a few strokes which had kind of wrecked my ST memory. My issue is ALSO almost an endothelial issue, the gene defect affecting a component making up the smooth muscle of the vessel and replacing it with something that makes it more prone to tearing–a weird parallel that maybe only I have made, but after asking an aortic dissection group about it, have some confirmation some new members have experienced aortic dissection after their COVID infection. Is this purely coincidence? Maybe, but I have to wonder why I had those inklings all those months ago about what it was going to do and if I could play any part in helping people avoid it or advocate for solutions or just relay any of my own experiences, perspectives and nuggets I’ve found.. See, I am not a mean horrible person wishing bad ends on my fellow human beings of the world–I revel in nobody’s death as I have said before already. I want people to use science and the resources we all have available to us to keep us all as well as possible. I don’t want anyone to experience illness as I have. I do not want people to have to worry about their futures, and if they do, I certainly want to give people the information.
THE NAME CORONABALONA: You know you love alliterations. I’ve tried to do my part to share my own advice about undergoing heart issues and these problems in the places I can, but wanted to have a place where people might stumble upon thinking I was being a smartass, a place of irony, as it were, because there is no baloney on these pages–and if I find I am wrong or the science has changed, of course I will correct it with an explanation. But this is a place where I will find the time and resource to give you all of the bookmarked stories I can that have led me to compiling this information. There is no sense in trying to help people by lying to them. I have hundreds, it’s just my bad understanding of WordPress delayed my ability to get this stuff up, and for that, I am sorry.