The first four months after being diagnosed with long COVID, Dr. David Heeger couldn’t walk a lap around the block without his wife holding him up. He couldn’t even sit upright, for that matter, for more than an hour. A year before, he’d been helicopter skiing in Alaska.
“Not that I've ever been poisoned, but I imagine that's what it feels like,” Heeger told Salon in a phone interview. “You can't do anything, everything hurts and it is a helpless feeling.”
