Well I'm back at last and what a crap winter/early spring I had. When I think about it, the last time I felt healthy and normal was last October and that's no lie. Atfer not feeling well for a number of months I decided to take a Covid test in November which came back negative. The fact I was still having problems with head aches, tight chest, lack of taste and smell, sore chest and all round not feeling right was a big worry, but as the weeks carried on over Christmas and new year I started to get maybe the odd one or two days where I felt nearly normal. This continued to improve but still I was having periods where I felt rotten.
At this time my doctor was talking of "Long Covid" and this is why it was taking so long for the symptoms to go. So I was given blood tests for signs of Covid antibodies but as this had been going on for so long(six months), there was a chance the tests would come back negative, which they did.
Luckily things have continued to improve and at last I'm feeling like me again. So was it Long Covid, was it stress or anxiety, I guess I'll never know but all I can say is I lost a good six or seven months of my life to something and really hope I don't have to suffer that again.
The good news is the new bike is a dream to ride, so smooth after a year on my old bike when every few weeks something seemed to go wrong. I do feel like Im starting all over again after such a long lay-off and the rides are still around an hour at the moment but I'm getting stronger and this lovely warmer weather is helping.
Fingers crossed I'll soon be on those longer day-long rides exploring more of the fens, until then you may have to put up with more local blogs and of course some from my fungi hunts. I hope this explains why the blog was so quiet, but I'm sure hearing about how ill I was wouldn't have made very good posts.
