Ted Monroe
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Ted Monroe
@tedmonroe91.bsky.social
English teacher; writer; impatient Long Covid patient
Reposted by Ted Monroe
ME/CFS is a devastating condition that has long been denied, dismissed, psychologised and underdiagnosed. Research is at last starting to catch up with it, with glimmers of hope for those who have been left untreated for so long.
There's a huge BUT coming ...🧵
www.theguardian.com/society/2025...
Scientists develop first ‘accurate blood test’ to detect chronic fatigue syndrome
Research could offer hope for ME patients – but some experts urge caution and say more studies needed
www.theguardian.com
October 8, 2025 at 6:09 AM
For us the pandemic never finished. We watch on in slumbery agitation as an amnesiac world carries on. We see, in W.H. Auden’s words, ‘how everything turns away / Quite leisurely from the disaster’.

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My article for @thefence.bsky.social on #longcovid.
April 13, 2025 at 3:11 PM
For us the pandemic never finished. We watch on in slumbery agitation as an amnesiac world carries on. We see, in W.H. Auden’s words, ‘how everything turns away / Quite leisurely from the disaster’.

www.the-fence.com/a-failure-to...

My article for @thefence.bsky.social on #longcovid.
A Failure to Convalesce
An interminable struggle to put on a jumper.
www.the-fence.com
March 15, 2025 at 3:39 PM
Reposted by Ted Monroe
'To have Long COVID, then, is to be trapped in paradox. This is no more apparent than in our furious efforts to recover, in which a profane blend of Puritanism and Paltrowism (the Gwyneth variety) do battle.'

A beautiful piece from Ted Monroe.

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A Failure to Convalesce
In his story, ‘Don’t Blame Anyone’, Julio Cortázar depicts one man’s interminable struggle to put on a jumper. The man is supposed to be meeting his wife at a store, and it is cold outside…
www.the-fence.com
March 11, 2025 at 11:57 AM