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Only took me 3 years to finish! It is 8x8 inches, 18 count Aida. Over 20,000 stitches/pixels. #crossstitch #embroidery #sewing #StarWars

I picked up cross stitch when sick with #LongCovid. As I got healthy, and ran out of a couple thread colors, I set it down. Did not pick it up until I went on vacation a couple weeks ago, and needed a project. And I finished it!

The pattern designer is Awesome Pattern Studio on Etsy, and they are a Ukrainian pattern maker. Love the use of color and color blocking. Have done a couple of her pieces and they are always striking.

Not sure I will do another all over cross stitch due to the amount of time they take, but I love the results.

"#PostCOVID19 condition is associated with reduced quality of life in track & field masters athletes, independent of sex, prior competition levels, & training characteristics"

onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10

Screenshot from Science for ME weekly update

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Life this week - I forget... again

'I need to reintroduce rituals to my life, slow, considered. I want to truly notice, to connect to the world and all of my kins within. Yes I still notice but it is out of habit. I pass through this world like a ghost. I think this relates to the disconnect I feel with my body. I am so little in it, it is dissolving into a foreign tongue, a map I cannot decipher.'

dispatchestofriends.mataroa.bl

dispatchestofriends.mataroa.blogLife this week - I forget... again — Dispatches to friends

The biggest downside of masking and practicing COVID safety is the social opprobrium we receive, born on the right wing, tolerated and then advanced across the political spectrum. This social rejection and stigma is no mystery, no accident; it is a meticulously constructed psychological project intended to shoo people back to the capitalist, individualist “normal”"

thegauntlet.news/p/the-pandemi

The Gauntlet · The Pandemic Has Been a Portal (for a few of us)By Julia Doubleday
Continued thread

· A treatment for cats with a #COVID19-related infection may help advance #LongCOVID research
· The supplement Oxaloacetate may help reduce fatigue for LC, but it “did not reach statistical significance,” according to a new study at Bateman Horne Center
· A new prospective cohort study in JAMA Oncology of 1,572 participants with cancer found that COVID-19 had a “significant impact” on these patients, incl. hospitalization, treatment disruptions, death

thesicktimes.org/2025/07/22/re

The Sick Times - Chronicling the Long Covid crisis · Research updates, July 22 - The Sick TimesA treatment for cats with a COVID-related infection may help advance Long COVID research. In a small study in Stem Cells Translation Medicine, researchers treated 10 cats who got feline infectious peritonitis (FIP), a feline coronavirus infection that triggers immune dysfunction, and found that those who received a combination of the antiviral drug GS-441524 and mesenchymal stem/stromal cell (MSC) therapy had “enhanced immune recovery.”

Danielle Beckman @whn on X:

What happens when you compare brain scans from people before and after the pandemic started? A new study with 996 participants shows the pandemic accelerated brain aging for all, but those infected with COVID also presented reduced cognitive performance. #NeuroCovid #LongCovid

Original study on Nature Comm here: nature.com/articles/s41467-025

It's important to notice that 'uninfected' is not a guarantee. Many people who think they have never had COVID, were asymptomatic

@EricCarroll
Careful! IMO this is a misinterpretation of the data.

The study basically says that persons with neurological symptoms of PASC despite being vaccinated have similar symptoms as unvaccinated persons. It does NOT compare the odds of getting PASC at all. And even the authors mention, that the vaccinated and the unvaccinated in their study are not comparable. The vaccinated had more health issues which might lead to more PASC.

There are numerous studies which show that vaccination reduces the relative risk of getting #LongCovid, depending on study design somewhere between 25% and 40%.

That's still a lot of LC and no reason to be careless, but the interpretation that the vaccines don't work doesn't seem to be right.