Well now it’s like I, you know, I walk to school and I’m tired and you know, my school is like a 20-minute walk and you know, I walk to school and I can barely like make it up the stairs, you know, you know, ‘cos it’s really tiring, you know?

Mum: I think it was June she woke up and she couldn't, her, every bone in her body hurt.

Katie: Yeah that was a few weeks later wasn’t it.

Mum: Yeah. You said it felt like an old man.

Katie: Yeah, like I couldn't really move that well ‘cos there was like, all of my bones were like, hurting.

It just kind of continued on. So, at some point, I went on, I was on Twitter and I think because there was a guy that my mum was watching, Garner? Yeah, who’s now like, he’s kind of gone off, you know, a little bit odd. But, anyway, at the time, he was talking about the symptoms going on and on and my mum had seen him on TV and she said, “Oh my god, this is it.” And then I went onto Twitter to find him and then to see what else was going on and that’s when I heard about Long Covid. And, in fact, the, one of the women who designed the term Long Covid came up with the term, so it’s kind of a weird, you know, like one of those weird coincidences [laughs]. But you know, then I started, you know, I read and I just thought, no, this is, this sounds very familiar. But there wasn’t a whole lot of talk about GI issues because most people on Twitter were adults.

It was one of those things where we weren’t getting better. You know, some, like I said, some days we felt better. Some days we didn't feel so good. Then it’d be a new symptom, you know, something else would poke its head up. Like I said like the cough that I got developed two weeks or something afterwards. You know, then suddenly, you know, there it was. Katie never really got the cough. No, you had light-headedness and stuff, yeah, but not the cough.