Watching the recorded micro.blog state of the union. Lots of good news and I so appreciate this platform.
Currently reading: Bewilderment: A Novel by Richard Powers 📚
Covid long-haulers face grueling fights for disability benefits
Terrifying
SARS-CoV-2 is associated with changes in brain structure in UK Biobank | Nature
reduction in grey matter thickness and … greater reduction in global brain size.
Currently reading: The Dawn of Everything by David Graeber 📚
Finished reading: Utopia Avenue by David Mitchell 📚And I’ve now finished all of the David Mitchell novels that I can find, Boom! What a fun way to spend the winter. He rewards you for reading everything. Utopia Avenue isn’t the best of them, but it was fine.
Virginia Senator Kaine introduces bill to research and combat long covid, after suffering it himself
What is long covid? Current understanding about risks, symptoms and recovery Washington Post No Paywall Link, this is by an author that my Long COVID brother respects.
I’m three months into being all in on Apple Fitness+. I love it. I do a 30-minute workout of some type nearly every day. The trainers are great and the workouts pack a lot into a short amount of time.
Future of AR, I think, you’ll be able to watch any of the three trainers.
Currently reading: Great Circle: A novel by Maggie Shipstead 📚
Finished reading: Record of a Spaceborn Few by Becky Chambers 📚A fun read and a nice break for some of the heavier books on my currently reading list.
Beautifully illustrated, informative article about Long COVID. It gets my brother’s seal of approval (he’s had Long COVID for nearly two years).
I found this article very useful:
I’m a 64-year-old vaxxed doctor. Here’s how I calculate my covid risk at parties.
Currently reading: Record of a Spaceborn Few by Becky Chambers 📚It turned out that past me had done the right thing so I can read this library book after all.
Finished reading: Klara and the Sun: A novel by Kazuo Ishiguro 📚So lovely and disturbing. Shook me up not through violence but via quiet, perfect prose describing a future I do not want.
Arrgh! Library fail. I didn’t manage my Overdrive loans properly and just lost my spot for Becky Chambers Record of a Spaceborn Few. And I’ll lose two more if I don’t finish Klara and the Sun soon! The perils of being a cheapskate and not actually buying books I want to read. 📚
Because there are so many people infected with Omicron, we expect those cases, unfortunately, will lead to more cases of long COVID
Researchers found that rates of many conditions, such as heart failure and stroke, were substantially higher in people who had recovered from COVID-19 than in similar people who hadn’t had the disease.
Nature: Heart-disease risk soars after COVID — even with a mild case
Finished reading: Number9Dream: A Novel by David Mitchell 📚While I love all the David Mitchell novels, this isn’t at the top of my list. On the other hand, he was only 33 years old when he wrote it.
Great characters, but some over-the-top violence that I found disturbing.
Currently reading: Klara and the Sun: A novel by Kazuo Ishiguro 📚
Finished reading: The Midnight Library: A Novel by Matt Haig 📚I hated this book. Seemed patronizing, minimizing the seriousness of suicidal ideation, with an overall “If you’re depressed, just get over it” feel to it.
Big ice storm on Friday, but not big enough to cause us to lose power. Just big enough to leave the trees encased in diamonds.
When you live in a cold climate and you’re trying to eat local fresh vegetables, you give thanks for carrots, Northern Spy apples, and treating parsley as a vegetable.
Finished reading: To Paradise by Hanya Yanagihara 📚Wow. I can’t easily say whether I liked it or not. But I’m definitely still thinking about it. It’s worth reading.
Finished reading: The Dictionary of Lost Words by Pip Williams 📚A nice, poignant, well-written novel about the Oxford English Dictionary and women’s lives circa 1900-1925.