COVID-19 has had on the quality of her life.“There is constant pain 100 per cent of the time,” said Debby Clements.The 49-year-old from Shediac Cape spent four weeks in the ICU and almost died of COVID-19 in the spring of 2020.Eighteen months later, she is still experiencing shortness of breath, neurological pain, memory loss and emotional trauma after being diagnosed with what health experts are calling long COVID, she said.“Lots of therapy for the PTSD that comes with being that sick for that long and still the fear and anxiety,” said Clements.Clements said long COVID has had an emotional toll on her life.
She can gingerly walk down her front steps but lacks the strength to make it to the mailbox down the street and to run around and play.