Austin City Limits Our Health: A Long Covid Moving Story with Laura Thomas

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A Friend for the Long Haul: A Long Covid Podcast

A Friend for the Long Haul

40 episodes

4 days ago

Are you struggling with Long COVID-19, ME/CFS, chronic illness, or disability? "A Friend for the Long Haul" is a Long COVID podcast that aims to be a supportive companion. This podcast offers insights, humor, and shared stories within a community that understands. Each episode features a Long COVID patient or ally to help you feel less isolated, because you are not alone.

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Austin City Limits Our Health: A Long Covid Moving Story with Laura Thomas

A Friend for the Long Haul: A Long Covid Podcast

48 minutes 52 seconds

1 year ago

Austin City Limits Our Health: A Long Covid Moving Story with Laura Thomas

Welcome to season 2 episode 6 of A Friend for the Long Haul - A Long Covid Podcast! This episode features my friend, Laura Thomas. Laura and I met in an Austin, Texas-based long covid support group, and started talking when she found out that I had moved from Texas because I discovered that my MCAS symptoms improved out of state.

Laura hosts a podcast called Rescued By A Dog, which features stories of dogs saving their people. In this episode, Laura and I discuss:

How we met and our long covid experiences
Moving out of state in an attempt to see any improvement in our symptoms
Acknowledging the privilege we both had to be able to move
Low dose Naltrexone, Paxlovid, anesthesia, and ketamine therapy (none of this is medical advice!)
What we call "zero dignity moments" with chronic illness
EMDR, brain retraining, staying present
"Resentment rebellion"
Lymphatic massage
The story behind Rescued by a Dog

Find Rescued by a Dog on Spotify: https://open.spotify.com/show/0t6XikdERybsS3wwwaJb6j?si=c1654161e4504d1e

And Apple Podcasts: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/rescued-by-a-dog/id1648960693 Support the podcast via Laura's Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/RescuedbyaDogPodcast

Don't forget to like, subscribe, follow, and share A Friend for the Long Haul if you can. And if you're feeling extra generous, leave a review. Your support helps get this in front of more earballs and helps me bring more episodes.

You can listen to the A Friend for the Long Haul Long Covid Theme Songs playlist on Spotify: https://open.spotify.com/playlist/3n0GXLFRWqDJyifglNNM4K?si=7948dbf2222c4392

If you'd like to support this low budget/high love podcast, you can check out my Bonfire shirt for silly long covid apparel where I'm raising money for a pro license of Zoom (as of right now, I can only record 30-40 minutes at a time and then we have to hang up and come back. Not great for conversational flow!): https://www.bonfire.com/store/a-friend-for-the-long-haul/

or my Amazon wishlist: https://www.amazon.com/hz/wishlist/ls/3MYBB5G0P7YUD?ref_=wl_share

Thanks again for listening!