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Arvind Patil's avatar

Welcome back Tom!

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Tom Graves's avatar

Many thanks, Arvind - much appreciated. Still a fair way to go to get back to full connection with the world, but I _am_ getting there...

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Robert Mckee's avatar

Hi Tom,

So glad to see you are slowly surfacing again after quite a rough patch. As any diver will tell you to stage your journey to the surface to avoid the painful consequences. A post albeit small will get you back into the swing of things, welcome back.

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Tom Graves's avatar

Many thanks, Robert - perhaps especially that reminder about pacing the return to the chaos of the surface...

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Alex Papworth's avatar

Glad to hear you're on the mend now Tom

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Tom Graves's avatar

Many thanks, Alex - much appreciated!

All I'll say about Long-COVID is that it ain't fun. :-( It wasn't until a friend - another writer - described his own experience that I at last realised what was going on. There wasn't much I could do about but just wait it out - apparently I have at least another half-year to go before it fades away - but at least it did help to know what was happening, and that I could back off a bit on the self-blame... :wry-grin:

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