It's estimated that one out of three people infected by COVID-19 will end up with long COVID. One survivor is using his training to help others also dealing with it.
“I'm a certified music therapist,” he said.“I knew music therapy helped people with any neurological challenge - Parkinson's, traumatic brain injury, stroke,” he said.“I was having trouble breathing,” he said. “And I take care of myself: I work out, [I’m] a singer, but I knew something was different, that it wasn't a cold.”“I was scared to death,” he said. “And, you know, I do go back in time and know, at that moment, those hours right there, that I made some deals with God.
Hospitalized for a week, he ended up on a ventilator. When he finally made it home, however, he realized something still wasn’t right. “Months went by, and the exhaustion still lingered,” he said, “but more than that, for me, my brain was different.” He was diagnosed with long COVID: one of the tens of millions of people who survived the virus but struggled with various lingering symptoms months and years later.So, Sweitzer turned to what he knew best – music.
“I was going through so many things that I do with my clients or my patients I work with,” he said. “And so I tried to give myself as a music therapist, I tried to give myself music therapy.”So, he decided to share that with other long COVID survivors by starting weekly online music therapy sessions via Zoom. During the session, survivors described what long COVID is like.“This rollercoaster is just awful,” added Bairbre Colley. “I want my life back.
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