/tags/chronic-illness Chronic Illness en-US Copyright © 2024 �������� Thu, 11 Mar 2021 10:49:54 GMT /coronavirus/2021-03-11/st-louisans-with-long-covid-face-exhaustion-uncertainty-as-symptoms-linger One in 10 patients infected with the coronavirus will develop “long COVID,” a group of symptoms that persists for weeks or months after a person has recovered from the initial infection. Long COVID symptoms vary from patient to patient, but many describe feeling exhausted all the time — so much that daily jobs or errands become impossible to manage. Thu, 11 Mar 2021 10:49:54 GMT /coronavirus/2021-03-11/st-louisans-with-long-covid-face-exhaustion-uncertainty-as-symptoms-linger Sarah Fentem /health-science-environment/2020-04-22/coronavirus-pandemic-heightens-fear-and-stress-for-families-of-chronically-ill-people It’s been two months since Karen Nickel last held her 2-year-old granddaughter. Nickel, of Maryland Heights, has lupus, psoriatic arthritis and… Wed, 22 Apr 2020 13:02:01 GMT /health-science-environment/2020-04-22/coronavirus-pandemic-heightens-fear-and-stress-for-families-of-chronically-ill-people Eli Chen /show/st-louis-on-the-air/2018-07-09/arts-as-healing-classes-offer-respite-as-cancer-patients-become-lost-in-what-theyre-creating Kathy McGee had just recently completed her cancer treatments when she visited Arts As Healing for the first time. She wasn’t exactly sure what she was… Mon, 09 Jul 2018 21:54:36 GMT /show/st-louis-on-the-air/2018-07-09/arts-as-healing-classes-offer-respite-as-cancer-patients-become-lost-in-what-theyre-creating Evie Hemphill /health-science-environment/2009-03-26/pain-never-ends-neither-does-lifes-passion This article first appeared in the St. Louis Beacon, March 26, 2009 - To appreciate any day in the life of author Lynne Greenberg, begin with this passage… Thu, 26 Mar 2009 21:10:10 GMT /health-science-environment/2009-03-26/pain-never-ends-neither-does-lifes-passion Mary Delach Leonard