Sam Wollaston’s article on those living with long Covid brought me to tears (‘I could bench-press 100kg. Now, I can’t walk’: Lucy’s life with long Covid, 5 June). It’s the first time in four years of reading every piece I can find on long Covid that I’ve been able to see my partner in an article. I’ve returned to Wollaston’s description of an “amalgam patient” – which he collated from hundreds of responses to the Guardian’s call-out asking for long Covid stories – again and again since I first read the article and each time it brings me back to tears.
My partner has been severely ill with long Covid since May 2020; the loneliness and misery of living with a condition for which there is still no treatment, and little support has been, and is, the most isolating experience of our lives. We are grateful for this article, as we struggle to maintain a fading hope that the desperately needed support and treatment for long Covid patients is on its way.
Rose Brown
London
