Day 1479—Nursing a PEM crash and this exchange from "Inside Britain’s Plague Nightmare | EP101+102 | The Black Death With Dan Snow" caught my attention.
In the absence of facts, we always fill the gaps. With bullshit. It's evidence-based medicine or bust. Rigueur, esti.
#LongCOVID #MECFS #pwME
![A hand-written note on yellow paper is posted on a fridge with a matching yellow magnet. It reads:
You can't always get what you want
No, you can't always get what you want
I said you can't always get what you want
But if you try sometime, you'll find you get — ["what you need" is crossed out in red and replaced with:]
debilitating Post-Exertional Malaise
Next to the note, in bold black lettering, there is the caption:
No reason. No rhyme.
Welcome to Long COVID:
The disease that ruins everything
One crash at a time.](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:qdbjeqjdesxm5qcdsvufefqv/bafkreia7og36cn563wagjewft7tbgwlbrb4okr6gqemus5pj4n6alht47a)
