Mareike has been there for a good two years
nothing is as it once was. In the summer of 2022, the then 50-year-old brought Corona home from her vacation in Upper Palatinate. It was their first vacation together after her husband’s serious heart operation. The pandemic was two years old at the time, many – including Mareike – had already been vaccinated and it was thought that the worst was over. “It started with a scratchy throat, then within a very short time I felt so bad that I almost ended up in the hospital,” she remembers. Things were “really bad” for her for two weeks. And after that, dizziness, attacks of exhaustion and shortness of breath remained – even with the slightest exertion. Til today.
Mareike has now received a confirmed diagnosis of Post Covid (see keyword). No one can tell her if or when she will recover to any degree of health. Her daughter, a nurse in a Corona ward, was also infected. Just like her mother, the then 25-year-old did not recover from the infection for months and was weak, dizzy and could hardly breathe for a long time. The daughter is now feeling better and has been able to work again since February.
Genetic disposition?
“Because it hit us both so badly, but not my husband and my younger son, the doctors are now assuming a possible genetic predisposition,” says Mareike. Because her husband is not the daughter’s biological father. But no one knows exactly why most people recover from a Covid infection after two weeks at the latest and why others struggle with it for years. “There is the theory that the virus has an influence on metabolism,” says Mareike, who has read a lot and researched the topic over the past two years.
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