mayday

This week I will learn how to support myself financially while struggling with long covid, will thread what I learn here, and I'd love if anyone with insight into this can weigh in with their experiences.

I'm reading the Long Covid Survival Guide, and am finding it very helpful. I checked it out online through the local library. Online library services are my favorite thing now.
#LongCovid #LongHauler #FinancialEducation #Disability

https://theexperimentpublishing.com/catalogs/fall-2022/long-covid-survival-guide/

The Long COVID Survival Guide

For people living with Long COVID, navigating the uncharted territory of this new chronic illness can be challenging. With over two hundred unique symptoms, and with doctors continuing to work towa…

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Feb 7, 2023 at 12:12amWeb
Show threadmaydayFeb 7, 2023
One thing that has helped is slicing bread very, very thin. #LongCovid #BrokeAsHell
Show threadWinston SmithFeb 7, 2023

@mad_mayday

I've reduced my grocery shopping to 4-monthly. Not due to finances, I don't WANT deliveries. I don't go into shops either.

I'm amazed at how cheap bunker rations are. I eat soy beans, chick peas and dried yellow beans every day, pretty much.

I soak a week's worth for 24 hours in salt water, and after a day of soaking they pressure cook in a pot full of various spices for 3 hours on high pressure.

I've been eating that for 3 years now. Saved a ton, and still delicious.

Show threadWinston SmithFeb 7, 2023

@mad_mayday
I threw the recipe up here, in case you want to try it. It's pretty authentic as far as curries go.

The spices are available in large bags from asian grocers, and it's not really expensive. Just stay away from stuff being sold to westerners/white people.

Tastes better than most of the things you'll get from a takeaway!

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Show threadWinston SmithFeb 7, 2023

@mad_mayday

That makes 4 litres of curry btw. top it up to the 4Lmark with water before you turn on the pressure cooker. I guess I forgot to write that bit down.

Show threadmaydayFeb 7, 2023
@PrecautionaryPrinciple oh thank you!
Show threadmaydayFeb 7, 2023
@PrecautionaryPrinciple They are so cheap. We eat a lot of beans and rice here, and hit the produce section pretty hard too.
Show threadmaydayFeb 8, 2023

Correction, I'll thread *if* I learn something -- I'm beat.

One thing that I know is important is to document symptoms, have a supportive physician, and find out all the community resources, which is challenging if you are wiped out just typing in a search box, but maybe on a good day or with a helper it can be done.

Show threadmaydayFeb 8, 2023
How do people do things nowadays? I'm tired from showering this morning. Taking my vitamins was stressful. I have to do laundry sometime today. These things used to be so easy I did them without thinking. Now I have vertigo and have to catch a wall.