Hello and welcome to The Compost Bin. I'm Compostwoman and I live with my family in rural Herefordshire. We have nearly four acres of garden and woodland, all managed organically and to Permaculture principles, which we share with Chickens, Cats and assorted wildlife. We also grow a lot of our own food, run courses in all sorts of things and make a lot of compost!

I am a Master Composter and have spent more than a decade as a volunteer Community Compost adviser with Garden Organic and my local Council.
I'm a self employed Environmental Educator so I run workshops and events where I talk about compost, veg growing, chicken keeping, cooking, preserving and sustainable living. I also run crafts workshops and Forest School/outdoor play sessions in our wood.

We try to live a more self sufficient lifestyle here, as best we can, while still having a comfortable life and lots of fun.


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Sunday 17 May 2020

Feeling very unwell.



This article, from The Guardian newspaper, describes exactly how I've been, since mid April, after having had what I was told was COVID-19.

I was really poorly( but not hospialised)  and was assured after "a couple of weeks" I'd start to feel better.

Its now nearly seven weeks since I first felt ill, I'm getting slightly less unwell now, but I still feel very poorly.

 As regular readers of my blog may remember, I have had ME since 2001, after I developed an unusual autoimmune condition overnight, due to an antibiotic reaction in hospital.

I was severely incapacitated for many years but it has been mostly "managable" since I cut out gluten and lactose back in 2014.

What I feel like now is like I'm back in the very worst part of the time 20  years ago.

I hope I feel better, soon.

Weird as hell’: the Covid-19 patients who have symptoms for months

Researchers keen to work out why some people are suffering from ‘long tail’ form of the virus


6 comments:

  1. I am glad you posted about this article as I can relate to most of it and it has taken me nine weeks to get to mostly well - although my brain power is somewhat lacking still : )

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  2. I am desperately trying to avoid C19, for the same reasons. I know how my body reacts in weird ways to viruses, and dread getting it.

    Do hope you feel better soon.

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  3. Hope you're feeling a lot better by now Compostwoman.

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  4. Hi, compost women. I came across your homepage when I was searching about Hungry Bin. I stayed, read some articles and like them very much. I hope you would soon get completely healthy again.
    best wishes from Austria

    Hannes

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  5. How are you now CW? Hope you are much better.

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  6. I hope you're feeling better now? Take care x

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