COVID Long Hauler Tells Story of Ongoing Recovery One Year Later | Sanford Health News

In November of 2021, Shawna Grierson-Friesen of Frazee, Minnesota, left her fifth grade classroom with COVID-19.
“I thought I would return in a week … haven’t been back since” said Grierson-Friesen. “I ended up going into the ER that day and my thoughts and opinion was, ‘OK, just give me some oxygen and we’ll get outta here.’ You know, that’s great. Then they decided that they were going to run some more tests. When they ran tests, they found double lung pneumonia, they found sepsis, and they found cytokine storm in my body.”
Grierson-Friesen was hospitalized. She required oxygen constantly. But even after she went home, things didn’t get much better. Now, more than a year after she first felt sick, she is considered a COVID long-hauler.
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My heart goes out to this woman. Covid is a cruel disease.