Sunday, January 28th, 2024 - By Patrick T. McBriarty
In
Part One I explained how as a teenager I began to develop a pragmatic approach to personal health. I embraced trial and error, exploring, researching, and refining personal well-being and what works for me. Often this meant quietly pushing aside peer or societal pressures and medical norms. Over the decades, I continued seeking out pragmatic health tools that best fit me.
Until the past year, I still looked first for help from the U.S. “sick” care system, which repeatedly failed to help me during Covid and Long-Covid.
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Tuesday, March 9th, 2021 - By Patrick T. McBriarty
Fast approaching a year of dealing with Covid I am finally starting to feel better thanks to a friend of a friend and a Nobel prize winning substance, known in medical shorthand as IVM. My journey is not over, but IVM has offered
a major path to recovery which has been thwarted from the start. This is my story…
Mid-morning on March 23, 2020, I was knocked down with fatigue, slept for 2-1/2 hours and awoke to a growing malaise and brain fog.
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Monday, May 4th, 2020 - By Patrick T. McBriarty
So, if you read my last
blog post you already know my experience getting knocked down with Coronavirus (now officially, SARS-Cov-2). My original reaction to Corona hit on Monday, March 23 with serious fatigue. I found out later from a doctor’s comment it was symptomatic of becoming hypoxic – like the altitude-sickness experienced by mountain climbers. However, they plan and train for it as part of the climb. I was in my third-floor condo on the couch, a mere 620-feet above sea-level.
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