Future of ‘life-changing’ COVID-19 recovery program for long-haulers uncertain – CBC

Windsor’s long COVID program needs money from province to continue long-term

Jun 10, 2022

Each morning, Denise Morneau drinks her coffee hoping it will be the day she can taste it. Morneau is what’s become known as a COVID-19 long-hauler.

Valentine’s Day last year, she fell ill and spent three weeks in bed. Sixteen months later, she still can’t smell or taste anything. She also has other lingering, life-altering after effects.

“I have been left now without any sense of taste or smell. And I have this huge pressure behind my eyes, which I feel like somebody is trying to push my eyes out of my head,” said Morneau.

“And I’m an active person: I always have been. I might be 80, but I’m not one of those sit-in-the-chair kind of people. So it has been tough in that direction… It has impacted me greatly. There is no question about that. I just find it extremely, you know, extremely difficult.”

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