Health Care-Illness
I'm a physiotherapist. Seeing the impact of Covid on survivors will haunt me forever
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I’ve never seen anything like coronavirus before. Recovering will be a Herculean task for patients, but we are here to help. But never have I seen the cracked-glass effect on lung CT scans like those of Covid-19 patients. I have stared at them wondering where the breath is coming from, worrying if they will be able to conjure up the respiratory effort to sit, stand, step, move, live. Those scans will skulk in the depths of my brain for the rest of my days.
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