Sometimes I Think Having A Physical Disability Means Being Constantly Betrayed And Disappointed By Your

sometimes I think having a physical disability means being constantly betrayed and disappointed by your community and nothing accentuated that quite like covid

NPR

A discovery in the muscles of long COVID patients may explain exercise troubles

Long COVID patients can experience severe energy crashes after physical exertion. New research provides clear evidence that there's a biolog

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By taking biopsies from long COVID patients before and after exercising, scientists in the Netherlands constructed a startling picture of widespread abnormalities in muscle tissue that may explain this severe reaction to physical activity.

Among the most striking findings were clear signs that the cellular power plants, the mitochondria, are compromised and the tissue starved for energy.

"We saw this immediately and it's very profound," says Braeden Charlton, one of the study's authors at Vrije University in Amsterdam.

The tissue samples from long COVID patients also revealed severe muscle damage, a disturbed immune response, and a buildup of microclots.

"This is a very real disease," says Charlton. "We see this at basically every parameter that we measure."

Different icon, same illnesses

disabled people can absolutely be ableist. not just to themselves (i.e. "internalised ableism") but to other disabled people.

ableism is the default position in an ableist society and no one is immune from it. you just have to keep trying to learn and think and de-centre and open yourself to others' experiences. it's a continual process for us all.

i feel like we as a society don't talk enough about how genuinely traumatic car accidents can be. like. i feel like we treat them so casually unless a car gets flipped over or something. but car accidents are actually such a traumatic thing that can happen to people??

cant wait to see how the curse will distort and twist to afflict me next