Our next guest needs no introduction! Here is the Long Hauler that supplied Sarah with so much hope throughout her Long Covid recovery journey…Gez Medinger! Gez has been a consistent feature of most Long Hauler's experience of Long Covid, with his groundbreaking videos on Youtube that have attempted to work out what has been happening to us from Day 1, and continue to lead with updating Long Haulers on the research landscape and current thinking around the condition. It was such an honour and a ...
Apr 09, 2023•1 hr 1 min•Season 1Ep. 11
In this episode of the Long Covid Hope Podcast, the podcast that aspires to shine a light on the more hopeful stories of Covid 19 long haulers, we’re talking with Charlie, an actor and photographer living in London. Charlie is a first waver who had a difficult time with Long Covid, but has since fortunately recovered his health and returned back to fitness and exercise in a big way. Charlie is doing an amazing thing to raise awareness and raise funds for the Long Covid SOS charity: he's about to...
Apr 02, 2023•1 hr 8 min
In this episode of the Long Covid Hope Podcast, the podcast that aspires to shine a light on the more hopeful stories of Covid 19 long haulers, we’re talking with Trixie, an architectural designer from Manila in the Philippines. Trixie’s story is particularly fascinating as she unfortunately is also a SARS survivor. She is literally a double first waver - and doubly isolated as there were very few cases locally either time. Trixie describes how she also caught SARS-CoV-1 back in 2003 and describ...
Mar 26, 2023•1 hr 7 min•Season 1Ep. 9
In this episode of the Long Covid Hope Podcast, the podcast that aspires to shine a light on the more hopeful stories of Covid 19 long haulers, we’re talking with Sarah, a now retired NHS doctor who caught the virus while working in a hospital. Dr Sarah discusses her first wave Long Covid story, her experiences with cold water swimming therapy off the South England coast, the ENO (English National Opera) opera singing therapy as a treatment for breathlessness, amongst other topics. Additionally,...
Mar 19, 2023•47 min•Season 1Ep. 8
Happy International Long Covid Awareness Day! This is a brief bonus episode to discuss the International Long Covid Awareness Day on 15th March 2023. Sarah reads the UK Press Release for the LC Awareness Day and discusses the various events that are taking place on this day worldwide. Please do take part in any way that you can - whether it is attending a Twitter Space, wearing the Awareness colours, educating a friend, family member or coworker about Long Covid, marching on Downing Street with ...
Mar 15, 2023•21 min
In this episode of the Long Covid Hope Podcast, the podcast that aspires to shine a light on the more hopeful stories of Covid 19 Long Haulers, Sarah is talking with Stephanie from Los Angeles, an International relations professional, writer, linguist and all around very creative person. Stephanie discusses her first wave Long Covid story, her bedrest, Long Covid symptoms such as neurological and POTS, having to go through multiple surgeries during her long covid recovery including an emergency ...
Mar 12, 2023•1 hr•Season 1Ep. 6
In this episode of the Long Covid Hope Podcast, the podcast that aspires to shine a light on the more hopeful stories of Covid 19 long haulers, we are joined by Anna, a former business owner, mum to two kids and a fellow Yorkshire lass, about her first wave LC story. She is one of the many, many long haulers who also came down with Covid on Friday the 13th 2020 (very unlucky for some). Anna describes her prior experience with chronic pain through costochondritis prior to Covid, and then how her ...
Mar 05, 2023•1 hr 4 min•Season 1Ep. 6
In this episode of the Long Covid Hope Podcast, the podcast that aspires to shine a light on the more hopeful stories of Covid 19 Long Haulers, Sarah speaks with the wonderful Angela, or Lady with Long Covid / @theextrafiles on Twitter, who lives in the Pacific Northwest of the USA with her two kids and partner. Angela has done an amazing thing: she has selflessly and tirelessly created a grassroots awareness movement from her couch. We discuss how the Long Covid awareness colours and day were d...
Feb 26, 2023•1 hr•Season 1Ep. 5
In this episode, Sarah speaks with Professor Theresa Levitt, Professor of History at the University of Mississippi in the US. Theresa spent a long time struggling with Chronic Fatigue Syndrome (ME/CFS) post-Covid and was mainly bed-bound. She explains how she got from bed-bound back to being healthy and active, back to running, and even writing a book! Theresa’s book, Elixir: A Parisian Perfume House and the Quest for the Secret of Life Hardcover is available from April 2023. We discuss our shar...
Feb 19, 2023•1 hr 3 min•Season 1Ep. 4
In this episode, Sarah talks with Roweena, a community organiser in North East England, UK, about her first wave Long Covid story. Roweena shares her story with us today but also shares her poetry that she wrote through this experience. Roweena describes having a horrendous time with swallowing disorders, which led to an inability to eat and losing a great deal of weight. Roweena and I discuss her experiences with inability to eat and retain food, having a feeding tube and time spent back and fo...
Feb 12, 2023•53 min•Season 1Ep. 3
In this episode of the Long Covid Hope podcast, Sarah speaks to Dave in San Diego, USA, about his Long Covid journey from bedbound to planning to hike the Pacific Crest Trail - yes, all of it! In this interview, Dave shares his experiences of his acute and Long Covid phases of illness, and how audio books and the Long Covid open Zoom Room helped him in the early days of Long Covid. We go on to discuss how Dave believes that Hyperbaric Oxygen Therapy (HBOT), the chicken soup diet, fasting and cle...
Feb 05, 2023•1 hr 6 min•Season 1Ep. 2
In the first episode of the Long Covid Hope podcast, Sarah introduces the show and her hopes and aspirations in creating it. Sarah shares her own Long Covid story, which took her from highly fit and active to bedbound, and later diagnoses of ME/CFS, fibromyalgia, POTS and B12 Deficiency. She discusses how she got ill on Friday the 13th March 2020, her struggles with getting care and the impact Covid had on her family life as a new Mum. In her story, Sarah shares what wasn’t helpful (GET) but wha...
Jan 29, 2023•1 hr 3 min•Season 1Ep. 1
Introducing the Long Covid Hope podcast, the podcast that tells the more hopeful stories from people with Long Covid and related conditions, by Sarah, the Long Haul Yogi. In Season 1, we are shining the light on the First Wavers and their experiences of getting sick with a novel coronavirus and then simply not recovering. The first wave of Long haulers, of which your host Sarah is one, had a very particular experience of having to fight for any help at all and also fight for Long Covid to be rec...
Jan 03, 2023•3 min
Introducing the Long Covid Hope podcast, the podcast that tells the more hopeful stories from people with Long Covid and related conditions, by Sarah, the Long Haul Yogi. In Season 1, we are shining the light on the First Wavers and their experiences of getting sick with a novel coronavirus and then simply not recovering. The first wave of Long haulers, of which your host Sarah is one, had a very particular experience of having to fight for any help at all and also fight for Long Covid to be rec...
Jan 03, 2023•3 min
