Sat.Oct 15, 2022

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Brother, do you love me? The cry for help that sparked a care-home rescue mission

The Guardian

When Manni Coe received a disconcerting text from his brother Reuben, who has Down’s syndrome, he decided to remove him from the care system. Now the two tell their story in a new book They were just five words, separated by four tiny full stops and four spaces: “brother. do. you. love. me.” But when, in November 2020, that text from Reuben Coe, who was alone in his room in a care home in Dorset, arrived on the phone of his brother Manni in Andalusia there was little else he could do.

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Ten Ways to Be Happy with Post-COVID Syndrome (Even If You're Miserable)

A Splintered Mind

Let’s celebrate my one year anniversary since getting COVID–19! ?? I know people who felt that COVID was a pernicious plot by politicians to put down the populace. I know others who believed that nobody would ever get the virus if they were vaccinated, and anybody not getting vaccinated was trying to kill them. Because of this polarization, I have a hard time talking to people about my experience with Long COVID, or Post-COVID Syndrome as I prefer to call it.