Long COVID and Digestive Symptoms: What the Research Tells Us
Research summary exploring digestive manifestations of Long COVID, including gut microbiome changes, IBS risk and potential treatment approaches.
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Clinical reports and policy documents describe conditions in technical terms. Poetry and narrative writing can illuminate aspects of illness that formal language often struggles to convey — uncertainty, fluctuating capacity, and the everyday adjustments required to continue living and working. The following poem by Dennis, a healthcare worker with Long Covid was written to reflect the experience of colleagues within the healthcare workforce.
Colleagues
Some of the names on these lists once stood beside you at the nurses’ station or the end of the ward.
They knew the same routines: handover medication rounds the real work of care.
Now their days are measured differently: breath spoons pace points pause to pause.
Long Covid entered the hospital not only through its doors but in the lives of those who worked here.
Some remain in the wards and corridors.
Others no longer can.
